JUD SUSS 1940 NAZI ANTI JEWISH FILM POSTCARD

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JUD SUSS 1940 NAZI ANTI JEWISH FILM POSTCARD WITH PREPRINTED STAMP

An interesting and frightening unused promotional postcard issued in 1940 for the Nazi German Anti Jewish Film 'Jus Suss'.

The Postcard is in very good condition when you consider the age and how postwar most Anti Jewish items were destroyed to remove this part of German history.

The Postcard is prestamped with a Nazi German Post Stamp.

Can anyone offer an idea of the value this Postcard?

More details of the film below. Thank You, John.

Jud Süß (Jew Süss) is a 1940 film produced by Terra Filmkunst on behalf of the Nazi regime and conceived as an antisemitic propaganda film. The screenplay was written by Veit Harlan, Wolfgang Eberhard Möller and Ludwig Metzger.

The movie played on basic Nazi stereotypes of Jews having hooked noses and being materialistic, immoral, cunning, untrustworthy and physically unattractive. With the exception of Marianwho shaved off his beard, cut his hair and wore "Christian" attire for most of the storythe actors playing male Jewish characters were made up to look unappealing and alien (non-German) to German audiences. The best example of this is Marian's co-star Werner Krauss who played the two other major Jewish characters, Rabbi Loew and his secretary Levy. There was also a scene that purported to show Jewish religious services.

Jewish extras were "recruited" (coerced into performing) in Prague (the capital of the German occupied Bohemia-Moravia) and the scenes showing the entry of the Jews into Württemberg and worshipping in a synagogue were filmed there.

The 1940 film achieved Nazi objectives and was a great success in Germany and abroad. Within the Third Reich, it was the number one film of the 1939-1940 season, seen by over twenty million people. It was shown to SS units about to be sent against Jews, to non-Jewish populations of areas where Jews were about to be deported, and to concentration camp guards. Anti-Jewish violence was reported after its projection in Marseille, for example. The impact of this movie was such that its director, Veit Harlan, received the 1943 Universum Film Archiv award (the UFA was the major commercial German film studio in the early part of the 20th century) at a time when the award was under Goebbels' jurisdiction.