The Eternal Jew
The Eternal Jew
| 28 November 1940 (USA)
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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.

Reviews
CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.
Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
pesic-1 Those who attack this film seem to take it for granted that even all these decades after the end of WWII, the German side still shouldn't be allowed a voice, and everything they ever claimed should a priori be dismissed as sick, hateful propaganda. Alas, we live in a time when telling the truth is 100% guaranteed to get you branded as a hateful nazi racist fascist bigot. Delve into the 'hate', dear friends, watch this film, draw your own conclusions. It's the forbidden fruit.
Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Der ewige Jude" or "Ein Filmbeitrag zum Problem des Weltjudentums" or "The Eternal Jew" is a German documentary film and from the title already it becomes very obvious when this was made, namely during the early years of World War II. The film had its 75th anniversary last year and is a German black-and-white sound film that runs for slightly over an hour, so pretty short actually. Hippler and Taubert, who made this one, are known for some other propaganda stuff from this very dark era in (German) history too. So yeah, what do I mean with my title's review. I think it is fairly obvious. What you see and hear during this hour is as defamatory and despicable as it gets when Jewery as an entire religion is denounced in the worst way one could imagine. It all seems so absurd and unrealistic right now, but back then less than a century ago, people appreciated the film, supported the message.It should be a lesson to every generation that we should not let things go so far that we just accept such a film as reality and an actual documentary. And we have to keep in mind that most Germans did not know about the genocide at this point. They weren't evil or something. They just sucked everything in that the Hitler administration handed them. And this is why I call this one a priceless film. It is a great opportunity to analyze controversial demagogic films like this one and see what we can do in order to learn from the past and improve our future. Finally, the only part where I somewhat agreed with the narration is the ending. The way Jews treat animals is really despicable and should not be justified by religion. All in all, a good watch for everybody with an interest in (20th century) history. Be prepared for the graphic and revolting content. If you can deal with these scenes, this one is certainly worth checking out. You could maybe call it the documentary equivalent to "Jud Süß".
MartinHafer The great intellect and humanitarian, Josef Goebbels, ordered this documentary to be made in order to explain to everyone in occupied Europe why it's imperative to do SOMETHING about the Jews which were ruining mankind. In other words, it's a hate-filled piece of crap made by a bunch of hateful, bone-headed Nazis. It begins with the presupposition that Jews are evil and using film clips, it spends a little over an hour assaulting the intelligence of the audience with its hateful message. The film's logic is negligible and the film is cringe-worthy. It not only makes antisemitic remarks throughout, it also makes fun of blacks. It's just garbage. Now despite being garbage, I DO recommend seeing the film for its historical significance, as it's a wonderful summary of everything evil about the philosophical underpinnings of the Nazis. Plus, if you ignore history, you don't learn from it. See it and learn.
TheOtherFool Interesting? Hardly. The 'scientific evidence' the movie provides for its point (which is basicly that Jews are a cancer) is so stupid and lame, it's almost laughable (if we didn't know what happened in that era).Important? Nah. I can't imagine Germans (even at that horrid time) would like or believe this movie. Compare it to Riefenstahl's Triumf des Willens. Now that was I movie I was impressed with. This is just silly garbage.'Best' part is a scene from M (one of my all-time favorites) where (the jew, as the announcer so eloquently keeps reminding us) Lorre plays a child-molester and murderer. In the eyes of these film-makers, only a depraved mind can do so. Uh-huh. Didn't know M was Hitler's favorite movie, right?No, it's just plain STUPID. Even for it's nazi-propaganda genre. 2/10.