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.
REEL 7
Narrator: "To understand these customs, one must look more closely at the laws and teachings of the Jewish race." Scenes in a Yeshiva, shots of the schoolboys seated in their classroom reading aloud and listening to their teacher. Shots of young men and a Rabbi seated around a table in a Talmud school. Close-up shots of the faces of various young men. Narration: "The Rabbis, these masters of art and hypocrisy, are not peaceful theologians but political educators." Scenes in a large crowded synagogue (10 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). Various shots of Jewish men at prayer and (oo:53:03) a Cantor singing. Shots of two men seated in the pews, who are, according to the narrator, conducting business during the religious service. Shots of the Torah scroll. Panning shot over the congregation in the synagogue. The Torah scroll is taken to the pulpit. Unrolling of the Torah scroll. 00:55:21 More views over the congregation in the synagogue. The narrator claims to quote from various passages of the Torah over views of numerous Jewish men at prayer: "Kanaan advised his sons five things: loves one another, love thievery, love debauchery, hate your master and never speak the truth." - Film Title
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Der ewige Jude [The Wandering Jew]
- Duration
- 00:06:25
- Date
-
Production:
1940
- Locale
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Germany
Poland
Jerusalem, Israel
Palestine
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
- 00:50:31:00 to 00:56:56:00
- 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: 3236
Source Archive Number: 3002 (E.Nr.141557) R7 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:55:29
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