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Anti-Jewish propaganda film: Jews in Poland

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.359.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3286 | Film ID: 2503

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    Anti-Jewish propaganda film: Jews in Poland
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    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.

    REEL 1
    Rolling title card: "The civilized Jews we know in Germany give an incomplete picture of their true character. This film includes actual footage from the Polish Ghettos. It shows us the Jews as they really are, before they conceal themselves behind the mask of the civilized European." [original film title card]

    The film opens with shots of Polish refugees and continues with footage of Jews in Warsaw, shot in October, 1939. A comparison is made between the suffering of the Polish population and the Jews. The German narration indicates that the Jews did not suffer during the war as did the native-born Polish population: "They sat unconcerned in the dark ghetto streets of the Polish cities, and an hour after the German occupation were already conducting business." Shots of crowded ghetto streets, groups of Jewish men looking directly at the camera. Narrator: "We recognize that here lies a plague spot that threatens the health of the Aryan people." Interior shots (Łódź, according to Moller) of a crowded family house with many children; shots of flies on the wall and other signs of poor hygiene. Scene of Jewish men at prayer around a table. The narrator explains the davening of the men: "The pendulum-movement of the upper bodies is required when reading Jewish texts." The narrator speaks of the disdain for work exhibited by Jews and shows Jewish men at forced labor in the streets clearing rubble. The narrator explains: "Nothing is happening here of their own free will - the German military government put them to working clearing up. One can see that they are not accustomed to work and that they do not like it." Many shots of street vendors, shops and bartering, with the commentary: "The Jews don't want to work but to barter, where they are in their element." The music intensifies and speeds up as the camera follows a woman who becomes angry and excited, yelling at the people in the street.
    Duration
    00:07:48
    Date
    Production:  1940
    Locale
    Warsaw, Poland
    Łódź [Litzmannstadt], Poland
    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)

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Genre/Form
    Propaganda.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    00:00:05:00 to 00:07:53:00
    Film Format
    • Master
      • Master 2503 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
      Master 2503 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
      Master 2503 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
      Master 2503 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
    • Preservation
      • Preservation 2503 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2503 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2503 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2503 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    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.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Legal Status
    Permanent Collection
    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in January 2001 for possible use in the Museum's special exhibition "Deadly Medicine.".
    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 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 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.
    Copied From
    35mm; b/w
    Film Source
    Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 3230
    Source Archive Number: 3002 (E.Nr.141557) R1
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:55:26
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