bkoganbing There are some films with messages I truly despise, but I've given the films middling reviews if the technique was good in the story telling. But I'm happy to say that The Eternal Jew is an exception. There's no way I could look objectively at this film because of the vile message it contains right from the first frame.The Eternal Jew has for its goal nothing less than the dehumanization of a group of people. When they are portrayed as a parasitical race since the beginning of written history, there's only one answer for them, elimination. No kind of treatment for them is too vile or too despicable. In fact a year after The Eternal Jew came out Adolph Hitler was already implementing his final solution.The film begins with the description of how the Germans liberated Poland and of course while loyal Poles fought and died, do you think these Jews fought in any way. No they stayed in their ghettos and just made war profits. They greeted the Nazis with indifference instead. But the Germans were up to their tricks.I've heard many descriptions of how Jews viewed the Nazis as they rolled up conquests in all the European countries they invaded. I've never heard the word "indifference" to describe their arrival anywhere. Especially among Jews.But that's only the beginning. Jews are a parasitical race who are shown like rats who spread plague in the Middle Ages, they spread a moral cancer wherever they arrive. After a lot of real estate being taken over Germans really bought into this message. Germans recognized the danger early and they're taking steps to deal with the problem. Jews permeate every aspect of society, the sciences, the arts, politics, and all to weaken the moral fiber of a nation for the sake of the conquest of international Jewry. People like Felix Frankfurter, Albert Einstein, Herbert Lehman, Fiorello LaGuardia(his mother was Jewish) and Charlie Chaplin. Right about this time Chaplin was waging his own war against Nazism with The Great Dictator. Can't forget to include him.Synagogues and Hebrew schools are portrayed as places of subversion with the ordinary religious rituals as something sinister. Not unlike Mosques today in some places and synagogues still where radical Islam is running things.They saved the best for last. On top of everything else Jews torture animals when they slaughter them in a Kosher manner. The Germans however are known for their love of our four legged friends and they took measures to stop this. What the folks at PETA would think of this?The Eternal Jew is as a vile a piece of propaganda you will find made more frightening because the power of the state was behind the making and distributing of this film. As long as people fall victim to thinking there is some group of people who are responsible for all the evil of the world then propaganda like this will find an audience.

nelliebell-1 I had wondered if this was a title worth a mention or if in fact such considerations would be best left alone.Iam still uncertain as to its value, however it should not as a rule be left alone.There was a legitimate attempt in this film to most assuredly point out and perhaps exploit the Jewish citizenry of various polish communities which had been recently conquered by Nazi Germany.The history of such persons be they Jewish persons is a history that is not to be envied.This film has had that kind of an affect,as did world war 2.This film is generally considered a propaganda film and in a manner of speaking with its willful attempt to pick the Polish Jew for a consideration of sorts,it, that is this film qualifies as just such a film.The Jewish person is not seen as part of the main he is in fact not so and perhaps more alarming is that this allegation suggests that this is only part of his character.The deception of what is a Jewish person is depicted and his allegiance to a another,be the other a host nation like France,Poland,Spain,England and even Germany is challenged outright by the narrator and never is fidelity a worthy mention.It is claimed that the Jew is unfaithful but not to his own kind and there particular ways.This separation is expressed in the book of Moses as rates of interest,usury and related subject are to be excluded from there own kind but not so as to others.There is discussion of the banking family, the Rothchilds.It is suggested were sent out into the world(Frankfurt,Paris,London) to set up world banks so that the rudiments of a concerted effort is established as a means to influence,manage and ultimately provide domination. This exclusion even suggests that a honest days work is not the way of the Jew for his ability lies in the opportunity that the work of others provide for.(A Pofit Motive by any other name) There are very important elements in this Nazi Germany propaganda film that require that we know God and that we know history,Do so it is necessary.It helped a great deal to learn of the Feast of the Jewish holiday of Purim.It was referred to as a Feast of Revenge whereby a deception was accomplished which ultimately allowed the Jews of a Persian Ruler to defeat an attempt to annihilate the Jewish population.It is worthy knowledge and worthy is the time spent in understanding the objection to it.Nazi Germany was concerned with its own racial stock in its belief of the superiority of the Aryan Race and voiced concerns through its narration that the Jews were if you will scattered through out there journey as a wondering peoples.There is further objections expressed when in particular discussions point to the entertainment industry whereby the truth is willfully obfuscated as in a Peter Lorre film "M" and a subversive position is put forward.There was evidence of such undesirable influence whereby a particular performer was if you will unabashed in a particular role which by its look was outright perverse.Such revelry was thought by Nazi Germany to be without merit and unworthy.This was a referral to the character of a Jewish Man not to Nazi Germany.This grossness of conduct enters into many objectionable practices that grotesque like figures are highlighted. This film looks at the practice of Live stock slaughter and with out reservation you the viewer are warned more than once as to the brutality even extreme cruelty that is employed in the slaughter of Cows,Lambs and so on.There is issue made as to Nazi German attempts to make illegal such practices as being amongst other things unclean,brutal even without care for the animal.The Jew is depicted as cunning and most assuredly without care perhaps even indifferent to the reported suffering.This particular practice is thought to have as its origin in the old testament,indeed if that is true then these who were talked of were without Christ.They were sometimes called Christ Killers.There is indeed more here with Nazi German Dictator Adolf Hitler speaking with some extreme rhetoric nearing the films end perhaps such an extreme position should be more and even more so looked at as this was not an idle time and there is much more to talk about.This film was interesting.

semiotechlab-658-95444 Independently of what one thinks of "Der Ewige Jude" (1940), directed by Dr. Fritz Hippler, it had a great effect. The reason why this movie was made, was to prepare the German nation for the imminent transport of the Jews out of Germany (so Hitler says literally in his speech at the end of the movie). Objectively speaking, the pictures have been so well selected as to fit perfectly to the text and thereby the massage of this movie. F.ex. we see only Ghetto-Jews living in dwellings full of cockroaches, Jews who are trying to cheat their Christian neighbors, Jews who proliferate like rats. So, also the famous comparison of the Jews and the rats is already prepared and does not seem to be lugged in. The migrations charts of the Jews on the one side and of the rats on the other side are based on a scientific technique that is still in use, f.ex. the expansion of certain marine animals which have been brought to foreign continents by early ocean-crossing ships, hence allowing to conclude the ways of the latter ones and so the earliest settlings e.g. in America. So, every single detail in this movie is correct - in the pictures as well as in the commentaries to the pictures, but the neutral watcher has no chance to decide if the mappings of the pictures to the texts (resp. vice versa) are correct, too. And here we have reached the most important question concerning all documentary-like made propaganda movies (incl. Eisenstein's "Que Viva Mexico!" !!): Is it enough that a theory is consistent if it supplies a certain amount of facts without contradicting itself? From logic, we know that from a false conclusion everything can follows - true as well as false sentences. And if one disagrees and requires a theory to fulfill additional conditions in order to be accepted as a "real" theory - should these additional constraints which are brought up independently of that theory really have an influence on that theory?

Mozjoukine Some wak job put a DVD copy of this in my letter box along with an anti Semitic leaflet. I don't know whether I was targeted or they did the block. It was considerate, because it saved me the $25 they charge for the thing in gun shops and I was always curious about it.Of course I have no way of telling if the American narrated version I have has been tampered with - a whole range of possibilities.First I'm amazed that people praise the film making. The graphics and protracted live action scenes are inferior to the enemy's propaganda films of the day. Like Leni Reifenstahl's documentaries, this is lumbering stuff. I was never part of the intended audience but I can't see any general public sitting through an hour of this.It is of course disturbing as well as tedious but it is also fascinating. It lays out the Nazi view of the Communist-Jewish world conspiracy in a way we never find articulated now.While it has contradictions that anyone who gave it a second though would have noticed - the Jews avoid employment/ half the country's doctors are Jews, some sections are particularly intriguing. The two segments showing endorsed European art painting contrasted to the debased bogus "modern" work are skillful and revealing, suggesting a hand more effective than some of the cruder passages. These do communicate the maker's stance.The rats, the Kosher slaughter house, the transformed orthodox Jews - even the more blatant of the American WW2 propaganda documentaries (think Why We Fight: Battle for China) never reached the extremes of this. It does provide a re-assurance, which is often needed, that the good guys won that one.