Jew Suss and The Eternal Jew

Jew Suss and the Eternal Jew are both very clearly anti-semitic films. Both depart from the more disguised propaganda of the films we've seen previously. Jew Suss, however, made its anti-semitic messages much more palatable than The Eternal Jew, which hits the viewer over the head with these messages (something Goebbels had claimed he wanted to avoid). I think making Oppenheimer an unlikable character, not simply an unlikable "Jew", is what made Jew Suss more more accepted and less clearly propagandistic than The Eternal Jew. Although Jew Suss stresses Oppenheimers Jewishness and it is clearly seen as a very negative trait, and possibly the cause of his cruelness and deceitfulness, he is a dislikable character in other respects as well. As viewers we're not told to dislike Oppenheimer, but we start to hate him and want other characters to turn against him and successfully eliminate him, because of his actions not because he is Jewish. The Eternal Jew on the other hand is much broader in its depictions of Jews. There are no characters to relate to, no people to side with, no one person to turn against. I think the public had a harder time accepting this film because the messages were all too clear and it was too forceful.