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USHMM-edited version of the German propaganda film on the Warsaw ghetto

Film | Digitized | RG Number: RG-60.2191 | Film ID: 2270

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    USHMM-edited version of the German propaganda film on the Warsaw ghetto

    Overview

    Description
    ***This footage is from a roughly ninety-minute propaganda film that was never finished or shown publicly. It was created by a German propaganda camera team in the spring of 1942.The Nazi regime created these ghettos and imprisoned Jews within them, subjected them to these conditions of starvation and disease and overcrowding. And yet, with a film like this, they hoped to suggest that these conditions were chosen by the Jews, that they were natural Jewish living conditions. This film is considered propaganda because it is heavily staged, omits selective information, attempts to establish grotesque stereotypes, and exaggerates many elements of reality. This German propaganda film ended up on the shelf, never finished, never shown, never given a sound track that we know of. It seems that the development of the war and of the genocidal acts in 1942 probably made this irrelevant as propaganda. Mass deportations of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto began soon after filming was completed.***

    This is an edited version of Stories 2114 and 2115. Footage shows propaganda scenes of the Warsaw Ghetto in May 1942, including processing new arrivals, Czerniakow in the Jewish Council building, street scenes, Jewish police striking people and moving them along the street, boys brought to prison, women in prison yard, people walking in the streets, and moving and burying corpses in a mass grave. Some scenes are slowed and highlighted to show German propaganda cameramen filming in the ghetto.
    Duration
    00:30:20
    Date
    Event:  1942 May
    Production:  2000 November
    Locale
    Warsaw, Poland
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Library of Congress
    Contributor
    Producer: Propaganda Kompanie

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Excellent
    Time Code
    01:00:20:00 to 01:30:40:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Conditions on Use
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum produced and owns the compilation of this content, including its text, images, audio and video clips, and design, etc. Third-party users must obtain permission from the Museum in order to reproduce and use film footage. Contact filmvideo@ushmm.org

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    Administrative Notes

    Note
    For more detail, refer to descriptions of Stories 2114 and 2115 on Film ID 2257.
    Copied From
    35mm FGM
    Film Source
    Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 1784
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:00:43
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