The Eternal Jew (art exhibition)

It was designed to support the Nazis' antisemitic doctrines with caricatures of alleged Jewish physiognomy and looks, and examples of famous Jews such as Albert Einstein and other well-known scientists, authors and intellectuals, such as the mistaken inclusion of Charlie Chaplin.

The exhibition was sponsored by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, who held well-known extreme antisemitic opinions.

After World War II began in September 1939, such antisemitic policies were extended to occupied countries, and indeed developed much further by killing squads (or Einsatzgruppen) in Poland for example, who targeted Jews specifically.

After the exhibition ended in Munich, it was displayed in Vienna from 2 August until 23 October 1938 and subsequently in Berlin from 12 November 1938 until 31 January 1939.

Pictures of starving and emaciated children and adults were portrayed in the movie to show how "degenerate" the Jews were, neglecting to mention that they were in their pitiable state as a direct result of German persecution.

Poster for the exhibition, 1937
Grotesque caricatures in the exhibition at the Deutsches Museum , Munich
The huge poster was illuminated at night so that passers-by would even notice it from the across the Isar river, view from Uferstrasse, of the Deutsches Museum library building, Munich , 1937.