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Poster of The Eternal Jew

The Eternal Jew

1940 · Film · 62 min

  • Documentary

Plot

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.

About The Eternal Jew

The Eternal Jew is a 1940 German antisemitic Nazi propaganda film, presented as a documentary. The initial German title was Der ewige Jude, the German term for the character of the "Wandering Jew" in medieval folklore. Directed by Fritz Hippler at the insistence of the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, the screenplay is credited to Eberhard Taubert and narrated by Harry Giese; it consists of feature and documentary footage combined with materials filmed shortly after the Nazi occupation of Poland. At this time, Poland's Jewish population was about three million, roughly ten percent of the total population.

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Cast

  • Mona MarisSelf (archive footage)
  • Curt BoisSelf (archive footage)
  • Fritz KortnerDimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
  • Peter LorreHans Beckert (archive footage)
  • Ernst LubitschSelf (archive footage)
  • Rosa LuxemburgSelf (archive footage)
  • Charlie ChaplinSelf (1931) (archive footage)
  • Kurt Gerron(archive footage)