Legenda o Wiecznym Żydzie Tułaczu jako narzędzie nazistowskiej propagandy (na przykładzie filmu Wieczny Żyd Fritza Hipplera)

The article shows the use of the legend of the Wandering Jew in the anti-Semitic propaganda of the Third Reich on the basis of a Nazi movie The Eternal Jew (1940) directed by Fritz Hippler. A significant thing in the Hippler’s movie is the factor of time (the Jew is eternal, exists despite all the circumstances) and place (the Jew is everywhere – he dons masks and hems in). Aggregation of all the common stereotypical views shaped the propaganda. Fierce, vulgar anti-Jewish rhetoric, dehumanization in the areas of both language and image, manipulated movie shots, selective approach to the used material, understatements and deliberate compilation of certain images – all of this added up to The Eternal Jew – one of the most heinous and sophisticated manifestations of anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda.

Olimpia Gogolin