FOOTNOTES

(1) My source-critical, shot-by-shot edition of the Nazi propaganda film "Der ewige Jude" exists in German. Free copies can be obtained from Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung, Postfach 1369, D-53 111 Bonn, Germany. My main publication is, unfortunately, only in Danish, but summaries and different conference papers in English can be found on the Internet: < http://www.holocaust-history.org/der-ewige-jude/ >. Here a detailed annotated description of the production story of the film can be found, too.

(2) Many scholars have through intense discussions over the years contributed to this paper. I would like to thank them all, but especially Professor Gerald Fleming, London, Professor Eric Markusen, Southwest State University, Minnesota, Professor Robert Drake, Siena College, New York and Michael Bjørk, Denmark.

(3) The latest thesis argued a decision, allegedly proclaimed to the inner circle of the Third Reich on December 10, 1941. Christian Gerlach: Die Wannsee-Konferenz, das Schicksal der deutschen Juden und Hitlers politische Grundsatzentscheidung, alle Juden Europas zu ermorden. WerkstattGeschichte 6 (1997), 7-44. The most recent survey is Ulrich Herbert (1998): Nationalsozialistische Vernichtungspolitik 1939-1945. Neue Forschungen und Kontroversen. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch.

(4) For a discussion of this expression, see further below.

(5) Robert Jay Lifton/Eric Markusen (1980): The Genocidal Mentality. New York: Basic. Definition on p. 3:

(6) Cf. note 1.

(7) Erwin Leiser: Deutschland erwache! Propaganda im Film im 3. Reich. Reinbek: rororo, p. 67.

(8) Fröhlich, Elke (ed.): Joseph Goebbels. Die Tagebücher. Sämtliche Fragmente. Teil I. Bd. 1-4. 1924-1941. München: K.G. Sauer. Bd. III, 612.

(9) Fröhlich, Elke (ed.): Joseph Goebbels. Die Tagebücher. Sämtliche Fragmente. Teil I. Bd. 1-4. 1924-1941. München: K.G. Sauer. Bd. III, 625

(10) Robert G.L. Waite (1977): The Psychopatic God Adolf Hitler. New York: Basic Books, 27.

(11) Fröhlich, Elke (ed.): Joseph Goebbels. Die Tagebücher. Sämtliche Fragmente. Teil I. Bd. 1-4. 1924-1941. München: K.G. Sauer. Bd. III, 628f.

(12) Fröhlich, Elke (ed.): Joseph Goebbels. Die Tagebücher. Sämtliche Fragmente. Teil I. Bd. 1-4. 1924-1941. München: K.G. Sauer. Bd. III, 630.

(13) Fröhlich, Elke (ed.): Joseph Goebbels. Die Tagebücher. Sämtliche Fragmente. Teil I. Bd. 1-4. 1924-1941. München: K.G. Sauer. Bd. III, 647

(14) Seraphim, Hans-Günther (ed): Das politische Tagebuch Alfred Rosenbergs aus den Jahren 1934/35 und 1939/40. München: dtv 1964, p. 110-11.

(15) Lifton/Markusen (note 5) p. 159-61 and 170-73.

(16) Ron Rosenbaum: (1998) Explaining Hitler. The Search for the Origins of His Evil. New York, Random House.

(17) Judith Herman (1997): Trauma and Recovery. The aftermath of violence - from domestic abuse to political terror. 2nd edition, New York: Basic Books; Johannes E.J.M. Hovens (1994): Research into the psycho-diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disoder. Amterdam. John P. Wilson/Beverley Raphael (ed): International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. New York 1993

(18) A detailed argumentation with documentation and references can be found in my article: Der ewige Jude. Legitimation und Auslöser eines Völkermordes. In: Karl Friedrich Reimers/Christiane Hackl/Brigitte Scherer (ed.): Unser Jahrhundert in Film und Fernsehen. München: UVK-Medien (1995), 59-97.

(19) UFA-Tonwoche 510 (from June 13, 1940). Bundesarchiv-Film abteilung,Berlin.

(20) Yehuda Bauer (1996): Freikauf von Juden? Verhandlungen zwischen dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland und jürischen Repräsentanten von 1933 bis 1945. Frankfurt/Main: Jüdischer Verlag, p. 97-98.

(21) Hornshøj-Møller (note 18) p. 89.

(22) Richard Breitman (1991): The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution. New York: Alfred A. Kopf.

(23) Bauer (note 20) p. 166-7.

(24) Felix Kersten (1952): Totenkopf und Treue. Hamburg, p.149, p.200.

(25) Personal communication, Gerald Fleming, London on November 17, 1997.Professor Fleming worked with the Kersten Archive in the 1950s. Cf. Also Bauer, note 23.