The Eternal Jew

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Third Reich Cinema: The anti-Semitic film: The Eternal Jew (Der ewige Jude) Content 0. Introduction 1. The Third Reich film industry between 1933-1945 2. Film as a propaganda tool and its expression in the Third Reich 3. Film: The Eternal Jew (Der ewige Jude) 3.1. Introduction and the background information of the film 3.2. Structure, content and analysis of the The Eternal Jew 3.3. Contemporary reception of the film 4. How was dealt with NS-propaganda films after the Second World War? 3 4 5 6 6 7 13 14 16 17 5. Legitimate reservations? 6. Bibliography -2- Introduction In the time between 1933 and 1945 the German film industry produced more than one thousand feature-length films and a large number of documentaries, short films and newsreels – a heavy heritage for its posterity. But researches in German film history, especially in the field of Third Reich Cinema show that even though the fact of the systematic organization of the film industry in the Third Reich with its pre- and post-censorship, its prohibition of critique and practice, there was not a complete pervasion of the film material with National Socialistic ideas and ideology. 1 In the overall supply of 1.094 feature-length films comedy production head with 48%, followed by melodramas with 27%, propaganda films with 14% and action movies with 11% share at the total production.2 But the predominant interest in these researches has been the discovering of the manifestation of propaganda among this legacy until now. Considering these numbers it suggests on the one hand that the film industry under the National Socialists was a formidable economic force and on the other hand that films were regarded as an important part of daily life while propagating the National Socialists ideology. Joseph Goebbels emphasized the important role of German film-making in the speech on his tasks as Reich's
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