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Mayors of Munich and Hamburg Oppose Showing of Film by Anti-semitic Producer

April 19, 1951
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The film “Immortal Beloved” produced by the anti-Semitic director Veit Harlan will not be shown in Munich, it was announced here today by Mayor Thomas Winmer.

Labor unions in Munich announced that their members will hold public demonstrations should the film by the anti-Semitic producer–who also made the notorious anti-Semitic film “Jew Suess” for the Nazis–be shown in any of the city’s motion picture houses.

In Hamburg, Mayor Max Brauer declared that he is opposed to showing the “Immortal Beloved” in any of Hamburg’s cinemas since its producer, Harlan, is “identified with Nazism and anti-Semitism.”

A German court at Schweinfurt today sentenced Erich Boettiger and Otto Gasse each to four years imprisonment for the murder of four Jews near the town of Goerlets, in Silesia, on June 30, 1934. Four other defendants in the same case were acquitted.

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