German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 5)

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.359.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3314 | Film ID: 2506A

Overview

Description: Globke's role in enforcing the measure against marriage between Jews and non-Jews. Scenes of parks, sporting events and theaters, which were all forbidden to Jews. Collage of portraits of Jewish artists who were excluded from German cultural life. Scenes illustrating other ways that Jews were isolated from the non-Jewish population and excluded from the greater community. The narrator says that Globke lived with his family in an apartment that was confiscated from Jews. Jews were forced to obey a curfew, wear Stars of David on their clothing, and were prohibited from owning house pets (shots of a dog, a cat, a bird). Shots of a cemetery as a rabbi in the GDR tells a story about a non-Jewish woman and her Jewish husband, who owned a bird from which he could not bear to be parted. After her husband was taken by the Gestapo, the woman received a card saying that she owed a certain amount of money before she could pick up his ashes (?). 1,907 Jews who committed suicide are buried in a cemetery in Berlin. Globke's involvement in the drawing up of a list of Jewish first names and a law forbidding Jews from using "German" first names such as Siegfried.
Film Title: Aktion J
Duration: 00:08:33
Date: Production: 1961
Locale: Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunk
Contributor: Director: Walter Heynowski
Producer: Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF)

Language: German
Genre/Form: Documentary.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 00:32:06:00 to 00:40:39:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2506 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2506 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2506 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2506 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Preservation
Preservation 2506A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2506A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2506A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2506A 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: Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv
Conditions on Use: For permissions and licensing, contact Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv at infoservice@dra.de
Copyright Holder: Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv

Keyword: ANTISEMITISM ARYANIZATION CEMETERIES DOGS GLOBKE, HANS HIMMLER, HEINRICH HITLER, ADOLF NAZI OFFICIALS NUREMBERG LAWS PARKS PROPAGANDA STARS OF DAVID

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: Other credits: Music: Hanns Eisler; Narration: Wolfgang Heinz, Herwart Grosse; Distributor: Progress Film-Vertrieb VEB. First broadcast: April 19, 1961.
See Stories 3310 through 3323 on Film IDs 2506A and 2506B for entire film "Aktion J." Consult departmental files for a complete description of the individual reels (in German).

Film Summary: An East German propaganda film showing original documents, photographs, and witness accounts which portray the career of Hans Globke, former state secretary in the Bundeskanzleramt under Konrad Adenauer's leadership. As commentator and co-writer of the Nuremberg laws, Globke played a significant role in propagating and disseminating the antisemitic decree. This film asserts his responsibility for the Holocaust and emphasizes his outstanding political role in West Germany.
Copied From: 35mm; b/w
Film Source: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3260
Source Archive Number: NP 03966 R5
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive