Overview
- Summary
- This is the only film known to be made by the Nazis inside an operating concentration camp. Germany's Ministry of Propaganda produced this 1944 film about Theresienstadt, the "model" ghetto established by the Nazis in 1941 in Terezin, a town in the former Czechoslovakia. Goebbles intended to use the film to prove to the International Red cross and the world that Jews were being well-treated in the camps. The film, however, is an elaborately staged hoax presenting a completely false picture of camp life. Upon completion, the director and most of the cast of prisoners were shipped to Auschwitz. Only a few survived to attest to the falsity of the film.
- Uniform Title
- Theresienstadt (Motion picture : 1944)
- Variant Title
- Führer gives the Jews a city
Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt - Format
- Video
- Published
- Los Angeles, CA : Seventh Art Releasing, [2010]
- Locale
- Czech Republic
Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
Germany - Notes
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Title from container.
Recorded DVD (NTSC, all regions).
A foreign documentary film (Germany).
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- External Link
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Study guide
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (25 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) World War (1939-1945) Nazi concentration camps--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj)--History. Internment camps--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj)--History. Jews--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj)--History. World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda. World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war. Motion pictures in propaganda--Germany. Propaganda, German. Concentration camps. Jews. Motion pictures in propaganda. Propaganda. War and motion pictures. Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj) Germany. Documentary films. History. Nonfiction films. Short films. Video recordings. Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)--History. Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
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- 2024-06-21 23:38:00
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