Promotional flier for the film Jud Süss
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)
Archival History
The flier was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Helmut Eschwege.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Helmut Eschwege
Scope and Content
Advertisment for the film Jud Süss, an antisemitic film commissioned by Joseph Goebbels for propaganda purposes. Directed by Veit Harlan, the film was extremely successful and notorious, winning the Golden Lion at the 1940 Venice Film Festival. It is based on a best-selling novel written in 1925 by Leon Feuchtwanger, a Munich born playwright, novelist, and Jew. The film is a costume melodrama featuring physical and social stereotypes of Jews. The lead character, Jew Suess, is a greedy, unscrupulous Jewish businessman who pursues and rapes a non-Jewish woman.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Pink paper with black printed text and an image of a fat man with a large nose hiding behind the hand that he holds out in front of him, palm outward. It advertise a film showing scheduled for July 10, 1941. Manufacturer: NSDAP O.G Johannstadt.
back, center, stamped, black ink: [illegible] [Parteiadler clutching a laurel wreath around a swastika]
Subjects
- National socialism and motion pictures.
- Nazi propaganda.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Advertising--Motion pictures--History--Pictorial works.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Antisemitism in motion pictures.
Genre
- Information Forms
- Object