The Eternal Jew
(1940)
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Curt Bois | ... |
Himself
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| Charles Chaplin | ... |
Himself (1931)
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Einstein
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Himself - Speaking at Reichstagssitzung
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Fritz Kortner | ... |
Dimitri Karamasoff
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Hans Beckert
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Himself
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Rosa Luxemburg | ... |
Herself
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Mona Maris | ... |
Herself
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Kurt Gerron | ... |
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Emil Ludwig | ... |
Himself
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Richard Oswald | ... |
Himself
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Max Reinhardt | ... |
Himself
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Richard Tauber | ... |
Himself
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Rosa Valetti | ... |
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The Jews of Poland (invaded by Germany in 1939) are depicted as filthy, evil, corrupt, and intent on world domination. Street scenes are shown prejudicially, along with clips from Jewish cinema of the day and photos of Jewish celebrities, while the narrator "explains" the Jewish problem. The climax and resolution of the film is Hitler's 1939 announcement that the Jewish race will meet its "annihilation" (Vernichtung). Written by Jamie McCarthy <jamie@mccarthy.org>
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Country:
GermanyLanguage:
GermanRelease Date:
28 November 1940 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Ein Filmbeitrag zum Problem des Weltjudentums See more »Company Credits
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Some historians have suggested that the scene from M in this film was used to demonstrate that Peter Lorre's "child murderer" was being portrayed as a sympathetic character and was an example that the Jews were twisting the reality of good and evil and therefore perverting German society. See more »Goofs
This film states that Charlie Chaplin was a Jew. In reality, he was raised Anglican and later professed to be Agnostic. When asked if he was Jewish, he reportedly said, "I do not have such an honor". See more »Quotes
Narrator: This is not a religion - it's a conspiracy against all non-Jews by a sick, deceitful, poisoned race against the Aryan peoples and their moral laws.See more »
A film used to "educate" the German public on the "danger" allegedly posed by the Jews, this film does all it can to paint Jews as subhuman (or better, anti-human) monstrosities.
Randall Bytwerk points-out in his biography of Nazi leader Julius Streicher (an excellent book which is much more about anti-Jewish propaganda techniques than it is a biography) that it was impossible for the Nazis to actually make the mass of Germans actively hate their Jewish fellow citizens. Bytwerk argues that the propaganda machinery focused on the idea of making Jews seem so wretched, disgusting and hateful that they would appear to be beings simply not worth caring about. This film, it seems to me, takes that as its motivation.
There is one interesting moment that hurts the filmmakers' cause: the camera panning over the crowds in the ghetto, when a group of Jewish youngsters are shown plainly trying to look over one another's shoulders and heads, grinning at the camera. Such moments would remind the average person that these were plainly people like anyone you might know.
Overall, however, the Berlin Gestapo reported that audience reaction to this film was "highly favorable," particularly the scenes equating Jews with disease-spreading rodents.