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Anti-Jewish propaganda film: migration of Jews

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.359.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3287 | Film ID: 2503

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    Anti-Jewish propaganda film: migration of Jews
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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 2
    Further scenes shot in Warsaw, Poland, October 1939. More shots of Jewish street vendors followed by a montage of creative and physical work (production) done by "Aryans" contrasted with a brief shot of a Jewish man counting money. Exterior views of small shops, (shop signs "Leon Borgenicht", "Owoce Markus Goldfinger", ".... Schleichkorn", ".... Szmuel Zylberklang") and of large houses and luxurious villas. Montage of shots of goods and agricultural production with the narration: "Things which are valued by the creative Aryan peoples have been reduced by the Jew to the level of a mere piece of merchandise, which he buys and sells but cannot produce himself. The Jews are a people without farmers and workers, a parasitic people. So is it in Poland, so was it in Germany." The film then deals with the migration of the Jews. The narrator explains that the Jew is always wandering, that there is no difference between the Jew in Poland and the Jew in Palestine. A view through an archway in the Warsaw Ghetto cuts to a similar view through an archway and other street scenes in Jerusalem and shots of the Wailing Wall. [Moller notes that the Palestine footage comes from a 1934 Zionist film titled "Promised Land" that contrasts the orthodox Jewish way of life with modern, agrarian Zionism. The somewhat negative portrayal from the Zionist film is co-opted and made much stronger]. Narrator: "However, their homelessness is self-chosen." An animated map charts the Jewish migrations from Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Empire of Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire, the Mediterranean, North Africa, Spain, France, England, Germany, Poland, Russia, Asia, Africa and America. Commentary: "The ultimate mongrelized Jew from the oriental Near Eastern race with Negroid admixture - differing from us Europeans, coming as we do from quite different racial elements, in body and above all in soul". Close-ups of several Jewish men. Further illustrations on the map show the Jews' wanderings to Europe, starting with the "cosmopolitan world-reach of Alexander the Great", through the 19th century with its "muddled ideas of human equality and freedom, which gave the Jews a powerful impetus." During the 19th and 20th centuries the Jews spread throughout Europe and the world.
    Duration
    00:08:45
    Date
    Production:  1940
    Locale
    Germany
    Poland
    Jerusalem, Israel
    Palestine
    Warsaw, 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
    00:07:53:00 to 00:16:38:00
    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: 3231
    Source Archive Number: 3002 (E.Nr.141557) R2
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:55:26
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