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Doc Tour: HARLAN: IN THE SHADOW OF JEW SUSS

Wed, 24 Mar, 2010 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Even more than Leni Riefenstahl, film director Veit Harlan was Hitler
and Goebbel’s favorite Third Reich filmmaker. He made films in the
1930s which extolled Nazi family values within melodramatic forms. Then
in 1939 Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels gave Harlan the most
important assignment of his career – to make a gripping, mob-stirring
film of Jew Süss. Superficially it was a costume drama set in the 18th
century and purporting to be the “true story” of a Jewish financial
adviser, Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, who gained influence over the ruler
of Stuttgart in the duchy of Württemberg. But the Nazi propaganda
minister had a more ominous subtext in mind as he insisted that the
film embrace every possible anti-Semitic stereotype about avarice,
arrogance, and lust to create the most hate-filled caricature yet in
mainstream German cinema. That would have been bad enough, but the
timing of the film’s release in 1940 had far-ranging consequences which
can barely be fathomed today. Wartime audiences seeing Jew Süss in
Germany and the occupied territories of Europe became totally incensed
by the title character and yelled out for his death and that of his
co-religionists. The film justified hatred, removal, and destruction of
an entire people. The camps existed already and tens of thousands of
political and ethnic prisoners had already been executed, but within
two years of the release of Jew Süss those camps would turn into
massive extermination factories. Harlan’s film irrevocably contributed
to the evil sweeping over Europe by depicting the Jewish people as
threats to the “purity” of Germany and as worthy of complete
annihilation.
Location: Alamo Downtown
320 E 6th St.
Fees: $4 AFS Members & Students / $6 General Public
Contact: afs@austinfilm.org
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