demonic effect: Veit Harlan's use of Jewish extras in Jud Suss (1940)
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]The demonic effect: Veit Harlan's use of Jewish extras in Jud Suss (1940)
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call numberS940.5318/004
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]03469em
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Oxford, England
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Oxford University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Council
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2000
[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]pp 215-241
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
NotesArticle from the journal 'Holocaust and Genocide Studies' Vol. 14 Number 2, 2000 pp 215-241
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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