Promotional flier for the film Jud Süss

Identifier
irn2900
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.193.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

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]

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Genre

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