The Eternal Jew (1940)

Name: The Eternal Jew
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1940-11-28
Duration: 62 min
Cast: Mona Maris, Curt Bois, Fritz Kortner, Peter Lorre, Ernst Lubitsch

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.

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Released 1940-11-28 · 62 min · Documentary

Directed by Fritz Hippler

Cast

Mona Maris as Self (archive footage)
Curt Bois as Self (archive footage)
Fritz Kortner as Dimitri Karamasoff (archive footage)
Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert (archive footage)
Ernst Lubitsch as Self (archive footage)
Rosa Luxemburg as Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin as Self (1931) (archive footage)
Kurt Gerron as (archive footage)
Emil Ludwig as Self (archive footage)
Richard Oswald as Self (archive footage)
Max Reinhardt as Self (archive footage)
Richard Tauber as Self (archive footage)
Rosa Valetti as (archive footage)
Harry Giese as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
George Arliss as Mayer Rothschild (archive footage) (uncredited)