Theresienstadt
Nazi propaganda film depicting the notorious Theresienstadt concentration camp as a sort of idyllic rest stop, in an attempt to convince world opinion that there was no such thing as Nazi death camps.
- Runtime
- 28m
- Released
- 1945
- Country
- Germany, Czechoslovakia
Details
Release year: 1945
Storyline
Nazi propaganda film depicting the notorious Theresienstadt concentration camp as a sort of idyllic rest stop, in an attempt to convince world opinion that there was no such thing as Nazi death camps.
Top credits
- Paul Eppstein — Vorsitzender des Ältestenrates der Juden, Soziologe - Mannheim - Berlin
- Karel Fischer — Dirigent
Kurt Gerron — Regisseur - Schauspieler- Frau Görtz — Gräfin - Holland
Did you know
• This film is not a reality-based representation of Theresienstadt under Nazi rule in WWII. It is a state-financed propaganda film, that the Nazis wanted to use to deceive the international public about the fate of the Jews. Actually, the term 'documentary' was introduced by the Nazis themselves, as part of the deception strategy. In the same way Theresienstadt was called a "Ghetto", but in fact it was a concentration camp and a transit camp to the extermination camps. The film is completely staged and was supervised and controlled by the Nazis, therefore it is difficult to name a single person as the 'director' in this context.
• The original film was approx. 90 min. long. Only approx. 20 minutes of some sequences, the screenplay, stills and drawings of lost scenes are available. The complete version vanished during the end of WWII and is considered lost.
• The supervising SS-Nazis demanded that only music by Jewish composers should appear in the film.
User reviews
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Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- Color
- Black and White
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