Jew Suss on the other hand is a completely different beast. It is the creme de la creme of emotional engineering and as such is a historical artifact which we must both respect and fear. We must respect it in both its brilliance and the magnitude of its effect and we must fear it because of the monstrosities it helped justify and the ideologies it helped promote. In this sense, while we can laugh at the preposterousness of "The Eternal Jew" we must be wary and guarded when studying a work like Jew Suss so that in the event that a similar film is made in the future we are able to recognize it for what it really is and prevent history from repeating itself.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
As historical artifacts, Jew Suss and The Eternal Jew operate completely differently. The Eternal Jew is a clear and simple representation of the potent evil contained within Nazi anti-semitism. It is crass and disgusting to such a degree that, excepting the hard-liner politicos, nobody would go see it. That being said, it is not even a good example of propaganda but rather an example of bad propaganda. It is evidence of the depravity and extreme degree of jewish hatred and the lengths to which the nazi's would go to control there citizens. After all, anti-semetism was, in many ways, a propaganda tool in and of itself.
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