Jew Süss: Life, Legend, Fiction, Film, Susan Tegel (London: Continuum, 2011), xv + 281 pp., hardcover 44.95, electronic version available
On January 4, 1948 the journalist Peter de Mendelssohn weighed in on a heated debate about the criminal culpability of Veit Harlan (1899–1964), the director of the infamous 1940 Nazi propaganda film Jud Süss. A few weeks earlier, during denazification proceedings, Harlan had been placed in category...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 294-296 |
| Review of: | Jew Süss (London [u.a.] : Continuum, 2011) (Magilow, Daniel H.)
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| Summary: | On January 4, 1948 the journalist Peter de Mendelssohn weighed in on a heated debate about the criminal culpability of Veit Harlan (1899–1964), the director of the infamous 1940 Nazi propaganda film Jud Süss. A few weeks earlier, during denazification proceedings, Harlan had been placed in category V (exonerated), prompting a defiant de Mendelssohn to write in Der Tagesspiegel: “From the film Jud Süss, the way leads straight to the gas chambers” (quoted p. 206). Harlan's vulgarly antisemitic film counts as one of the great “successes” of Joseph Goebbels's Ministry of Propaganda. After Heinrich Himmler attended the September 24, 1940 premier, for instance, he instructed all members of the SS and police to see the film sometime during the course of the winter (p. 182). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcv039 |