It's Them or Us: Killing the Jews in Nazi Propaganda1 - Bytwerk

Nazi Symbolic Violence 31
Jud Süß (1940)
life as he is lifted into the air in the hangman’s cage. The trap opens. The film ends
with the solemn admonition to hold to the ancient law for all time to come.
Der ewige Jude, a pseudo-­‐documentary, presented Jews as a bastard race of
criminals intent on world domination. Much of it was filmed in Poland after the Nazi
invasion. In an extended series of scenes it compared Jews to rats, carriers of a
plague deadly to humanity. Two vivid images appear near the end of the film. In the
first, the film presented the most disgusting images in all of Nazi cinema, a portrayal
of Jewish ritual slaughter intended to make the practice as offensive as possible to
the viewing public. Viewers were warmed not to watch if they were of a sensitive
nature, which only increased the power of the images. A rabbi holding a long knife