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This episode deals with rats - in Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum - and the possibly anti-Jewish rat-like vampire in Nosferatu. The Nosferatu vampire is especially portrayed as vermin, and some scholars believe this was subtle propaganda towards viewing Jewish people as "less than human" - and rationalizing their extermination. All in all - a very dark (and important) episode.
- Do you think Nosferatu is anti-Semitic?
- Why is dehumanization so dangerous?
- In which story does Edgar Allan Poe write about rats?
- What are some of the reasons that pre-Hitler Germany was in turmoil?
- Why is it highly unlikely that F.W. Murnau intended Nosferatu to be anti-Jewish?
- Did Murnau die in a German death camp?
- How did Hitler use propaganda?
- According to Ken Burns, what is the role of the artist?
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:37 Comparison of Dracula protrayals
- 02:38 Rats in The Pit and the Pendulum
- 09:15 Historical background in Germany
- 14:36 F.W. Murnau’s intentions and actions
- 20:32 The Eternal Jew "review"
- 26:35 Dehumanization
- 30:14 Concluding story
- 33:52 Halloween episode
- 34:32 Sources
- 36:52 Outro
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