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Post card to Burgermeister P Tittel, 1938, DER EWIGE JUDE postmark, signed at bottom in pencil FRITZ (Hippel) in good condition, a scarce signature of the third reich.

The Eternal Jew is a 1940 antisemitic, German Nazi propaganda film, presented as a documentary. The film’s initial German title is Der Ewige Jude, the German term for the character of the “Wandering Jew” in medieval folklore. At the insistence of Nazi Germany’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, the film was directed by Fritz Hippler.
Fritz Hippler (17 August 1909 – 22 May 2002) was a German filmmaker who ran the film department in the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Reich, under Joseph Goebbels. He is best known as director of the propaganda film Der Ewige Jude

With a screenplay credited to Eberhard Taubert, the film consists of feature and documentary footage combined with materials filmed shortly after the Nazi occupation of Poland. At this time, Poland’s Jewish population was about three million, roughly ten percent of the total population. Actor Harry Giese (1903–1991) narrated.