Cinéma et histoire : les trois discours du Juif Süss

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Cinema and history the three messages of Jhe Jew Suss Fran ois GAR ON What form did Nazi antisemitism take in the early 1940s as evidenced in the film The Jew Suss which Goebbels supervised throughout its production and which was seen by 20000000 people The words put into the mouths of the Jewish characters as well as their physical appearance manner and language are all the product of systematic antisemitism Paradoxically though this does not build up to an incitement to the audience to go out and murder the Jews themselves but rather to justification of the elimination of the Jewish elites by the State exclusively Analysis of antisemitism leads in addition to the discovery of methodical antifeminism as well-argued and cogent as the foregoing Beneath these attacks overt or otherwise one can distinguish in this film call for the domestication of Aryan youth and its authors genuine horror of the masses when these intervene directly in the course of history It is these obsessions and phobias as revealed both by examination of the way in which 18th century historical facts were adapted and by analysis of specifically cinematographic factors such as montage the scale of views the duration of sequences or dialogues which make The Jew Suss document of interest for what it teaches us of official ideology and Nazi sensibility