From THE NAZI PLAN (1945) Backwards: April 1 Anti-Jewish Boycott as a Visual Backdrop for Communicating Multiple Perspectives

Abstract

The newsreel footage that shows the Boycott of Jewish businesses in Berlin on April 1, 1933, is among the most widely circulated of the newsreel footage that has contributed to shaping our understanding of motion picture-driven antisemitic Nazi propaganda. Functioning as a visual marker of the beginning of the (pre-Holocaust) Nazi persecution of European Jews, and German Jews in particular, images of this footage have over the years been edited into documentaries, reenacted in feature films, depicted in graphic novels, visual artworks, and computer games, displayed in historical exhibitions, and circulated on social media