demonic effect: Veit Harlan's use of Jewish extras in Jud Suss (1940)

Veit Harlan, director of the anti-semitic film Judd Suss was the only film director of the Third Reich to be tried as a war criminal. The prosecutor was interested in 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 in Lublin and Prague