[Home Movies: Monson Collection: Vienna 1938, silent]

This footage captures chilling scenes of anti-Semitic propaganda and the aftermath of Kristallnacht in Vienna, 1938. It begins with a view of the German university clinic for ear, nose, and throat ailments. Three women in hats pass by a Nazi propaganda billboard depicting a caricatured Orthodox Jew with the text “Judentum ist Verbrechertum,” urging readers to consume hateful media. The film then shows defaced Jewish businesses and homes, including a café with “Jude” scrawled in white on its window and red Jewish stars painted on nearby buildings. Shops are vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti, and the scene concludes with an intertitle transitioning to Budapest, Hungary, marking a shift in location. These harrowing images document the hostility and systemic persecution faced by Jewish communities during this dark period in history.

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