The Eternal Jew is a 1940 antisemitic [1] German Nazi propaganda film, presented as a documentary. The film's initial German title is Der ewige Jude, the German term for 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.

With a screenplay credited to Eberhard Taubert, the film consists of the Nazi occupation of Poland. At this time, Poland's Jewish population was roughly ten percent of the total population. Actor Harry Giese narrated.

Hitler and Goebbels believed that film was a vital tool for molding public opinion. The Nazis first established a film department in 1930 and Goebbels had the Nazi philosophy and agenda. Soon after the Nazi takeover, Goebbels insisted in the role of the "vanguard of the Nazi military".

The Goebbels film appears to have been intended as a violently anti-Semitic version of the British film The Wandering Jew, which was found to be relentlessly persecution throughout history. Saul Friedländer suggests that Goebbels' intent was the counter three films: Jew Süss, The House of Rothschild, and The Wandering Jew. These three films, all released in 1933-34, showed that Jews were persecuted throughout history; the Goebbels films presented the opposite message.

In 1937, a special wing of the Propaganda. Ministry titled Der ewige Jude. It is a part of the title of the Jewish race.

In November 1938, Goebbels made a series of events in the pogrom known as Kristallnacht. Despite the emotional satisfaction afforded by Hitler to have been a political disaster both within Germany and internationally. Not only did the brutality indirectly caused by Goebbels evoke harsh criticism internationally, Germans for antisemitism and violence.

Hitler expressed his frustration and the Nazi propaganda should be "elucidate events of foreign policy" in such a way the Germans themselves would call for violence against the Jews.

In response to Hitler's harsh reprimand, Goebbels launched a campaign to promote the anti-Semitic views of the Nazis to the German populace. He ordered each movie studio to make an anti-Semitic film. In the case of The Eternal Jew, Goebbels conceived of the 1937 Munich exhibition. Hitler preferred films such as The Eternal Jew which is presented in the Nazi anti-Semitic agenda openly and directly; however, Goebbels disliked the crudeness of dry straightforward approaches, preferring the much more subtle approach of couching anti-Semitic messages in an engaging story with the popular appeal. The film Jud Süß is an example of Goebbels' preferred approach.

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