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An Israeli Finds New Meanings in a Nazi Film

By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Published: August 17, 2010

 

 

For almost half a century, an unfinished Nazi propaganda film of the Warsaw Ghetto, simply titled “Das Ghetto” and discovered by East German archivists after the war, was used by scholars and historians as a flawed but authentic record of ghetto life. Shot over 30 days in May 1942 — just two months before deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp would begin — this hourlong silent film juxtaposed random scenes of Jews enjoying various luxuries with images of profound suffering.

 

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A Film Unfinished

 

 

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Just found this link to their website too:

 

Afilmunfinished.com