Sunday, May 17, 2015

Shaken members

Shaken members of the audience are interviewed after emerging from a sold-out showing of “Jew Süss,” a film that, Mr. Moeller said, is presented at least every other week somewhere in Germany.
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Like “Jew Süss,” in which a devious racist fanatic takes over a “pure” German realm, “Homecoming” embodies the classic propaganda ploy of projecting one’s own crimes on the enemy. Similarly, “Uncle Kruger” credits the British with the invention of concentration camps and “The Rothschilds” (1940), a pseudo-historical movie rife with misinformation, shows Jewish capitalists using disinformation to foment international panic.
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Widely distributed in Nazi-occupied Europe, with special screenings for SS units, “Jew Süss” was shown at the 1940 Venice Film Festival, where it was praised for its formal qualities by Michelangelo Antonioni, then a young journalist.

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