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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2000 14(2):215-241; doi:10.1093/hgs/14.2.215
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"The Demonic Effect": Veit Harlan's Use of Jewish Extras in Jud Süss (1940)

Susan Tegel

University of Hertfordshire

Veit Harlan, director of the notorious anti-Semitic film Jud Süss (1940), was the only film director of the Third Reich to be tried for crimes against humanity. Of particular interest to the prosecutor was the role of the SS in recruiting Jewish extras for some scenes. Determined to depict German Jews as Eastern Jews (Ostjude) in a film justifying their expulsion from Germany, Harlan sought extras first in Lublin in January 1940, and then in Prague in March of the same year. Perhaps because Harlan was eventually acquitted, their use has attracted little scholarly attention, but it does shed light on the making of state-commissioned propaganda on the "Jewish Question."


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