Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
7,2 (2008) 175-194
Keywords:
Sebald, W. G.
;
Agamben, Giorgio,
;
Lanzmann, Claude.
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Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
;
Jews
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
Abstract:
Discusses the Nazi propaganda film on Theresienstadt, "The Führer Gives the Jews a City", originally titled "Theresienstadt: A Documentary Film from the Jewish Settlement Area". The film, produced by the Jewish director Kurt Gerron, is not a documentary, because the Jews, supervised by the SS, performed before the cameras. Dismisses the idea that Gerron's film sent some coded message concerning the Holocaust to the world. It provides little veritable information on how life in Theresienstadt really was, and its viewing is in no way a communication with the victims. If this film is a document, it is only one of SS intentions. Proceeds to "Un vivant qui passe", Claude Lanzmann's filmed interview with Maurice Rossel, the representative of the International Red Cross who filed a report in 1944 verifying the conditions in Theresienstadt as "human". Rossel, as a member of an investigation commission, failed to see the truth behind the performance organized by the Nazis for the Red Cross.
DOI:
10.1080/14725880802124206
URL:
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