The Eternal Jew And Jud Suss Movie Analysis

The three movies, Erbkrank, The Eternal Jew and Jud Suss, all show case various levels of Anti-Semitism that existed in Nazi Germany. The Jew was seen as the destroyer of the true Germany and were thus the culprit for all of their problems. The idea of the Jew as other was clearly displayed in all three movies, in varying means and styles. The audiences for all of the movies clearly impact the manner in which the movies chose to go about exploring the Jewish problem, that reportedly existed during the time. It is very obvious hat Goebbels’s, had a clear plan for how he desired they would answer the Jewish problem, that according to the Nazi party was only getting worse. The Nazi control over media, as well as pretty much every other aspect …show more content…
All though even with his changed appearance he is still a Jew on the inside and commits acts that only a Jew would think of committing. He convinces the Duke that he is something who should be trusted by performing various acts for him, most important giving him the ballet that the council refused to. In exchange he will be placed in charge of all roads and bridges, once again doing what Jews are best thought to be best at, working with money. Slowing gaining more and more of his confidence he convinces the Duke to lift the Jewish ban, once again allowing the Jews to roam freely throughout the village. What finally reveals the true nature of his Jewishness is his rape of Dorothea, the daughter of the council chairman. His inability to keep his depraved sexuality to himself, shows the true nature of the Jewish people and that they are in able to exist within society at large. In other words they should remain within their ghetto’s where they have less likely of a chance of impacting the pure. In the final scene of the movie, after he has been hung for what could in the easiest terms, was his Jewishness, a councilman states that in order to preserve the future generations Jews should be banned from Württemberg for years to come. The simple fact that once again the Jews are seen as the parasite of the German population. They are the reason of all evil in the world, who use their weird religion to explain away all of their criminalistic behavior. However, none of the movies take into account that for generations Jews and Germans lived peacefully and quite productively without very much issue. Not until the rise of Nazism was such a strong disdain given to a group of people that had very little to do with the decline of Germany. Hitler’s hate was a simple way to solve a complex problem, using the Jews as