- Es Leuchten die Stern
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
caricature s 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.
See also
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a406qxVPbsw&feature=related Complete film] (after another anti-Semitic cartoon, "
Das güldene Bäumchen ")
*List of films made in the Third Reich
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