us-005578-irn1002480
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has beginning date: 1940-01-01
has end date: 1940-12-31
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identifier: irn1002480
note: Censor date: November 1, 1940. Other credits: Script: based on an idea by Eberhard Taubert; Music: Franz R. Friedl; Editing: Hans Dieter Schiller, Albert Baumeister; Narration: Harry Giese; Tricks and maps: Svend Noldan. Note: The film contains newsreel scenes from Ufa-Tonwoche 471/1939 (Poles fleeing German troops), Ufa-Tonwoche 472/1939 and Ufa-Tonwoche 474/1939 (ghetto scenes, forced labor by Jews), and Ufa-Tonwoche 439/1939 (Reichstag speech of Hitler). It also contains scenes from"The House of Rothchil" (USA, 1934) by Alfred L. Werker, the Zionist movie"Land der Verheissun" (Germany, 1934) by Juda Leman (Jews in Palestine), and of"Triumph des Willens. Das Dokument vom Reichsparteitag 193" (Germany 1935) by Leni Riefenstahl (Germanic Aryan faces, Nazi flags, Germans marching). See Film and Video departmental files for extensive documentation and a summary of the film. See Stories 3286 to 3293, Film ID 2503 for entire film"Der Ewige Jude" See also Stories 898 and 899 on Film ID 31 and Story 2768 on Film ID 2459.
scope and content: A propaganda film declared as a"documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism" in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans;"international crim";"financial Judais";"assimilated Jew"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts. REEL 8 More shots of Jewish men at prayer in a synagogue, with the commentary:"That is no religion and no religious service, that is a conspiracy against all non-Jews of a cunning, unhealthy, contaminated race, against the health of the Aryan people and against their moral laws" 00:56:56 Titles: One of the most instructive customs of the Jewish so-called religion is the slaughter of animals. The following pictures are genuine. They are among the most horrifying that a camera has ever taken. We are showing them in spite of this, without regard for objections on the ground of taste. Because more important than all objections is the fact that our people should know the truth about Judaism. Sensitive compatriots are advised not to look at the following pictures. 00:57:48 Scenes of Kosher animal slaughter (11 October 1939, Łódź, Poland: Moller notes that the synagogue was reopened for the day of October 10 and the prohibition on kosher slaughter was lifted for one day on the 11, so that Hippler could shoot these scenes): a cow tethered to a wooden fence, close-up of a Jewish 'schochet' holding a knife, the cow is led into the slaughterhouse followed by three Jewish 'schochets' holding knives. The cow's legs are bound and it is brought to the ground, its throat is then cut. Sustained close-up shots of death of the animal. (There is neither commentary nor sound effects over these scenes, only natural sound.) 00:59:36 Brief close-up shots of the faces of the Jewish men in th…
title: Anti-Jewish propaganda film: ritual animal slaughter; antisemitic legislation; Aryan ideal