1940: Auschwitz and "der Ewige Jude"

Going through the appendix of the year 1940, the thing that stroke me most was that Himmler ordered the establishment of a Concentration Camp in Auschwitz on April 27th and only 5 months later “Jud Süß” and very shortly after “Der Ewige Jude” came to the German cinemas. Thinking of Auschwitz as the Concentration camp were most Jews were systematically killed and both movies as hitherto the most overt anti-Semitic pieces of propaganda, we can see how the German regime was working towards the final solution which was decided one and a half years later at the conference of Wannsee on January 20th in Berlin. Even though “Der ewige Jude” failed completely as a piece of propaganda, the attempt still shows how the German regime tried to prepare the German public for the idea of the final solution by depicting the Jews as the eternal evil for mankind.