Antisemitic Nazi propaganda film (part)

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.147.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0899 | Film ID: 31

Overview

Description: 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 crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts.
Film Title: Der ewige Jude [The Wandering Jew]
Duration: 00:09:35
Date: Production: 1940
Locale: Poland
Germany
Jerusalem, Israel
Palestine
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
Contributor: Director: Fritz Hippler
Producer: Deutsche Filmherstellungs- und Verwertungs GmbH (DFG) for Reichspropagandaleitung N.S.D.A.P
Camera Operator: Albert Endrejat (Lodz)
Camera Operator: Anton Hafner (Lodz)
Camera Operator: Robert Hartmann (Lodz)
Camera Operator: Friedrich Carl Heere (Lodz)
Camera Operator: Heinz Klueth (Warsaw)
Camera Operator: Erich Stoll
Camera Operator: Hans Eberhard Winterfeld (Lodz)

Language: German
Genre/Form: Propaganda.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Mixed
Time Code: 01:43:14:00 to 01:52:49:00
Film Format: Master
Master 31 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 31 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 31 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 31 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 31 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 31 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 31 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 31 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

Conditions on Access: This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
Copyright: Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
Conditions on Use: Researchers who wish to use this footage should contact the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to sign a release, or submit the online request form at: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
Copyright Holder: Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.

Keyword: ANTISEMITISM CHILDREN GHETTOS HITLER, ADOLF ISRAEL JEWS NUREMBERG LAWS PALESTINE POLAND PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH) PROPAGANDA (NAZI)

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the Imperial War Museum in London in May 1995.
Note: Censor date: November 1, 1940.
Length of entire film: 70 minutes
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 Rothchild" (USA, 1934) by Alfred L. Werker, the Zionist movie "Land der Verheissung" (Germany, 1934) by Juda Leman (Jews in Palestine), and of "Triumph des Willens. Das Dokument vom Reichsparteitag 1934" (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 Story 898 for the beginning of this film. See Stories 3286 to 3293, Film ID 2503 for entire film "Der Ewige Jude." See also Story 2768, Film ID 2459.
Film Source: Imperial War Museums
File Number: Legacy Database File: 1711
Source Archive Number: GWY 522 R8
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive