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Poster
From the Nazi Anti-Semitic Hate Film, The Eternal Jew
"Wherever
rats turn up, they spread annihilation throughout the
land, destroying property and food supplies. This is
how they disseminate disease. Pestilence, leprosy, typhus,
cholera, dysentery. Just like the Jews among mankind,
rats represent the very essence of malicious and subterranean
destruction." |
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film, The Eternal Jew, was created to justify the separation,
exclusion, and ultimately the destruction, of the Jewish people.
The narrator describes the Jews of Poland as filthy, sly and
ugly and juxtaposes images of Jews with rats. The goal of propaganda
is ultimately action. What does one do to rats? Exterminate
them, of course. This was the unstated message of the hate
film.
"If
one compares the directness and intensity of the effect that
the various means of propaganda have on the great
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masses,
film is without question the most powerful. The written and
spoken word depend entirely on the content or on the emotional
appeal of the speaker, but film uses pictures, pictures that
for almost a decade have been accompanied by sound. We know
that the impact of a message is greater if it is less abstract,
more visual. That makes it clear why film, with its series
of continually moving images, must have particular persuasive
force." Fritz Hipler, Nazi filmmaker, creator of The
Eternal Jew 1937
See
the full text of Fritz Hipler's article, "Film
as a Weapon"
Read
an analysis of the film, Der
Ewige Jude by Stig HornshØj MØller
Part
of the Nazi Propaganda exhibit
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