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Lying About the Jews in Film - WW2 Special

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How do you convince your people to hate and fear their neighbors, to support a genocidal war of aggression, and see you as their only hope? If you are Adolf Hitler or Joseph Goebbels, the answer is simple. You send them to the cinema.

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Hosted by: Spartacus Olsson
Director: Astrid Deinhard
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Written by: James Newman & Spartacus Olsson
Research by: James Newman
Edited by: Karolina Dołęga
Sound design by: Marek Kamiński
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20 Comments

@WorldWarTwo Creator 4 years ago Pinned

Any historian needs to be vigilant to maintain objectivity in the face of huge amounts of historic propaganda, but this is especially the case when creating historiography, and even more so when creating public video historiography covering the Second World War.

You see, the mental image and popular narrative of the Nazis and their empire is one of ruthless and brutal hierarchy, discipline, order, and efficiency. Images come to mind of salutes, soldiers walking in perfect formation, and grand pieces of architecture. However, this is exactly what the Nazis wanted their image to be.
So much of what any World War Two documentary will cover will be the Nazi Germany state and military. In order to illustrate information about this, historic footage is often needed. The problem here is that archival footage of the Nazis and their military is so often filmed, produced, and directed by Nazis themselves. This is why we so often see videos of German tanks and trucks, but rarely of the hundreds of thousands of horses the Wehrmacht used to invade their victims. It is also why marching soldiers always seem so organised and efficient, as opposed to the often stumbling and out of step teenagers that any military can have.

Then of course there's the Nazis themselves, who far from being a highly organised, highly disciplined, hierarchical organisation, more often resembled a criminal syndicate of thugs and bandits, all vying for power and not respecting any guiding code other than respect the boss.

While the disconnect between reality and public relations fiction is perhaps most problematic when discussing the Nazis, the same issue affects historical footage from almost all warring side. So be careful whenever you see some black and white footage from the war, and remember to not always believe what you see on TV (or the newsreel)

@noobster4779 4 years ago

Character: Danish
Actor: Swedish

I dont think this one was very popular in Denmark......

@Foralltosee1623 4 years ago

I feel that as always World War Two is a channel dedicated to helping everyone understand history. Thank you once more for showing us something about the War that many no doubt did not know. It is always important to ensure that History never is forgotten no matter how dark and terrifying it may be.

Never forget.

@FlagAnthem 4 years ago

0:08 the supreme irony is that Goebbles NEVER said that

@Artur_M. 4 years ago

Another "interesting" work of Goebbels' cinematic propaganda machine is Heimkehr from 1941. It presents the alleged suffering of ethnic Germans in Volhynia under Polish rule. besides being primarily anti-Polish propaganda it obviously also has antisemitic elements. The production was notable because some Polish actors and filmmakers were coerced to take part in it, in which a major role was played by their former colleague and one of the biggest stars of pre-war Polish cinema, turned willing collaborator and a Volksdeutscher, Igo Sym. You can hear Sparty talking about what happened to him near the end of the War Against Humanity 010 video.

BTW, the Austrian (with Czech-Jewish heritage) writer, Elfriede Jelinek called Heimkehr “the worst propaganda feature of the Nazis ever”, which is impressive, considering that it has competition to this dubious honour in the two movies described in the video above.

@taylorlibby7642 4 years ago

I really appreciate the gravitas that you bring to this subject.

@Clarence.Boddicker 2 years ago

Well, There is a lot of lying going on..

@ladyrazorsharp 3 years ago (edited)

During my undergraduate studies, I took several classes from a professor who emigrated from Germany with his parents just before the war started. The bulk of his research and literary work was devoted to the subject of Nazi Germany and WWII. He showed us a documentary about Nazi films and one that stuck with me in particular was one about a pianist who discovers she has multiple sclerosis and opts for euthanasia rather than being a burden on the glorious Fatherland. At the film's wrenching climax, she dies peacefully in her loving husband's arms, who dissolves into sobs over his wife's brave sacrifice. I can't recall the title, but it was a disturbing tour de force on the side of eugenics.

@brenokrug7775 4 years ago

You mentioned that it was the peak of this form of media, as people would never go to the cinema as often again. My father always talks about how he would go almost daily to the cinema back when he was a kid in the 50s and early 60s in Brazil. There was usually a newsreel about current events before the movie began. The relationship with cinema was so different, nowadays I go to the movies like thrice a year at most. I know this may be a nostalgic vision of the past, but it had some charm. With all this technology we tend to be isolated from the world around us, disregarding real connections with digital ones. It is something to think about. Great video as always, never forget.

@keegan9632 4 years ago

Spartacus you are doing such important work. Thank you for telling these stories

@darrendred1 4 years ago

I can honestly say that I love this channel. Thank you

@welcometonebalia 4 years ago

Excellent and necessary video. Thank you as always.

@georgewilliams8448 4 years ago

Thank you for another excellent and informative video.

@donaldhill3823 4 years ago

I find it hard to understand how showing someone as poor and in need of help would make others hate that person. I know the history of how those with birth defects and so forth were shunned and feared. However people claim to be of religious faiths which follow a man who healed the sick and feed the poor yet only find hate in their hearts for anyone fitting this description. It is a sad contradiction.

@P9124 4 years ago

Social media and its excesses of today put a rather depressing contrast.

@danielgreen3715 4 years ago

Cant realy think of anyone else suitable to present this series and still retain the same Gravity anf feeling behind these terrible events ..But also explained better than most History Professors!

@InternetDarkLord 4 years ago

Spartacus missed the Nazi version of Titanic.
No, really

@squashedeyeball 4 years ago (edited)

A very important video!
Great work on making it concise, since you could write many lifetimes of research on the full extent of this topic.
I hope there would be another special on the Theresienstadt propoganda film from 44.