Es Leuchten die Stern
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Es Leuchten die Sterne "The Stars are Shining" is an anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda film that mixes animation and live action footage. The film is two minutes and fifteen seconds long.
The film starts out showing a girl looking through a telescope watching a comet fly through space. When the comet hits the Earth the picture dissolves into a map of Germany with the star of David and Jewish caricatures superimposed on it, then switches to live action footage, apparently from Der Ewige Jude.
What follows then is a series of short segments in which the "flying Jews" fly through and, implicitly, corrupt various aspects of German life: the theatre, a bank, art, industry, alternating with line drawn Jewish caricatures and live action footage.
The cartoon vividly illustrates the Nazi attitude toward the Jews as "pests" who were ruining the German culture and economy.
Its relationship to a 1938 German drama of the same name, if any, is unclear.
[edit] See also
- Complete film (after another anti-Semitic cartoon, "Das güldene Bäumchen")
- List of films made in the Third Reich
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