'Lost' film predicting rise of Nazism returns to screen

[muriel_volestrangler]

The incidents portrayed in the Austrian film The City Without Jews (Die Stadt Ohne Juden) are eerily prophetic.
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The film tells the story of a city that expels all of its Jews. They are made the scapegoats for rising prices and unemployment.
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Less than a year after the film was made, Hugo Bettauer was killed by a Nazi, called Otto Rothstock, following a hate campaign against him.

"His private address was published and in the newspapers, it was explicitly said that such a person shouldn't be part of society."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43569919

Much more there (the BBC always uses very short paragraphs, so I can't give much of a flavour with the DU 4 paragraph rule).

[appalachiablue]

1. Tragic and evil how this 1924 silent film forecasts the coming Nazi Reich.

Anti Semitism and violence against Jews in Eastern Europe, in the form of pogroms was escalating since the 1880s at least and continued through 1921.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/pogroms-2

[Rhiannon12866]

2. This should be required viewing in The White House

Since they seem to have missed any World History classes in school.

[uriel1972]

3. Missed?...

I think some of them studied history quite closely.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Even when I was in the early grades, I already knew that nazis were evil.

I remember somehow hearing that Hitler was never found and because I had quite an imagination, I was terrified that he was still among us.