Veit Harlan's Jud Suss Summary

Susan Tegel article on Veit Harlan’s Jud Suss will highlight facts about the Holocaust and the impact this film may or may not of had on it. As well as the continued creation of Nazi propaganda in condemnation of Jews. Tegel also indicates that the creation of this film in its antisemitic air may have been excessive for many Nazi sympathizers. Tegel will also note the three dissolves in which Suss will evolve and devolve in the film.
Tegel starts off by saying that during the Third Reich there were over a 1000 films made and 229 of these films could be categorized as propaganda films. The creation of propaganda films during the Third Reich comes to no surprise this far alone in this class. We have already seen the creation of propaganda at every turn in print, in film, in school they took any and every opportunity to create propaganda possible. Although Tegel will quote The Minister of Propaganda for the Third Reich Joseph Goebbels as saying “effective propaganda, he believed, should come from guise entertainment: ‘Even entertainment can be politically of special value’” (Tegel 76). Goebbels will become insistent that this film was needed, and must be made by a German because as …show more content…
There were actors who were wanted for the film as Tegel will point out, that did not wish to be a part of this film. She does not note that their resistant because of the message or the fact that they would have to be portrayed as Jews. Perhaps a bit of both were causes for resistance. Ferdinand Marian the actor who played Joseph Süß Oppenheimer would decline the part at first. With understanding of who the Nazi party was and how they ran the Third Reich I don’t believe there was an option to decline the role. Tegel does note that in good faith the party will release a press statement that states that the speaking roles of Jewish characters in the film were actors of pure Aryan