WW2 German documentary on Jews

[Luigi]

Apparently this one is well known, but I only just found it. Interesting to see the ideas that were prominent at the time:

https://archive.org/details/TheEternalJ ... geJude1940

[Masato]

Hey Luigi

Meant to reply for a while now but its such a deep and sensitive topic, lol

Brave post thanks man.

I find that whole aspect of WWII to be fascinating from multiple perspectives.

Could this be a possible modern equivalent?
Could a film like this be viewed in 70 years as hateful, racist, anti-semetic propaganda?

Jenin, Jenin 2002

Directed and co-produced by Palestinian actor Mohammad Bakri, Jenin Jenin includes testimony from Jenin residents after the Israeli army's Defensive Wall operation. The city and camp were the scenes of fierce fighting which ended with Jenin flattened and scores of Palestinians dead. Palestinians as well as numerous human rights groups accused Israel of committing war crimes in the attack. The United Nations appointed a commission of inquiry, but Israel refused to let its members visit the scene.

Banned in Israel, Jenin Jenin is dedicated to Iyad Samudi, the producer of the film, who returned home to Yamun after the shooting of the film was completed. On June 23, as Israeli forces besieged Yamun, Samudi was shot and killed as he was leaving a militarily-closed area with three friends.



https://www.change.org/p/israeli-state- ... re_initial

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As members of the world’s cinema community, we denounce the Israeli Court’s decision to ban the screening and distribution of the documentary film “Jenin, Jenin”, and express our solidarity with its maker, our colleague, the prominent Palestinian director and actor Mohammed Bakri. In defense of the freedom of expression, we ask you to join our call to lift this unconscionable ban.

It is with consternation and outrage that we learned about the Israeli Lod District Court decision to ban the screening and distribution of the 2002 documentary film “Jenin, Jenin” by the renown Palestinian filmmaker and actor Mohammed Bakri.

In its shocking decision the court alleged that some of the representations in the film – which describe events in the Jenin Palestinian refugee camp over a two week period in April 2002 – are untrue. In addition to prohibiting all screenings of the film in Israel, the court issued an order to confiscate 24 copies of the film and ordered the film’s director to pay NIS 175,000 ($55,000) in damages to an Israeli army officer who appears in the film, as well as NIS 50,000 ($15,500) in legal expenses.

Mohammed Bakri, who has been relentlessly harassed and persecuted by the Israeli government for the last 17 years, documents with no commentary or voice-over, the aftermath of the brutal destruction of the Jenin refugee camp committed by the Israeli army in 2002. He dedicates the film to its producer Iyad Samoudi who was killed by the Israeli troops in the Jenin Governorate shortly after filming was completed.

We call upon the world community, and in particular our global cinema family, to join us in denouncing this flagrant attempt at censorship. The Israeli authorities responsible, including the Minister of Culture, must be held to account.

Subjectivity is an essential aspect of artistic and cinematic expression. We therefore call upon our colleagues and comrades to join us in the denunciation of the allegations against Bakri and the attempts by the Israeli authorities to imperil freedom of speech and artistic freedom of Palestinian filmmakers and artists.

Finally, we demand the full revocation of the Israeli court’s unacceptable decision which threatens the fundamental rights of filmmakers and artists to freely express their point of view.

Join Ken Loach, Aki Kaurismaki, Mike Leigh, Alia Shawkat, Liam Cunningham, Venessa Redgrave, Hany Aby Assad, Mai Masri, Michel Khleifi, AnneMarie Jacir, Eyal Sivan, Robyn Slovo, Asif Kapadia, Rasha Salti, Raed Andoni, May Odeh, Ali Suliman, Orwa Nyrabia, Christoph Terhechte,Henrique Goldman, Paul Laverty, Rebecca O'Brien, Ola Alsheikh, David Riker, Asia Kapadia, Brian Eno, Miriam Margolyes, Sawsan Asfari and many others...Let your voice be heard by adding your name to our petition. Lift the ban now!

Palestinian Film Platform:
https://www.palestinefilminstitute.org/en/pfp

[Masato]

Sometimes I think that only the most extreme and absurd propaganda survived from that era in Germany (the more reasonable propaganda was likely destroyed by the Allies). I also suspect some of it may have been doctored to appear even more evil and hateful than the average propaganda might have been.