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- From Swastika to Jim Crow (Excerpt, 14 min)
"From Swastika to Jim Crow is a 2000 documentary that explores the similarities between Nazism in Germany (the Swastika) and racism in the American south (Jim Crow). In 1939, the Nazi government expelled Jewish scholars from German universities. Many of them found teaching positions in Southern universities, where they sympathized with the plight of their African-American colleagues and students." From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Swastika_to_Jim_Crow
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"Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler, friends since the age of nine, founded Pacific Street Films in 1969. In a career spanning over three decades they've produced, directed, written and edited over 100 films, as independents and for venues as diverse as the United Nations and Saturday Night Live. The themes of Pacific Street's work cover a wide variety of subjects - equally as diverse - from hidden camera investigations into police surveillance and misconduct; illuminating "lost" periods of history; revealing the "secrets" of martial arts – to analyzing the director's art on the sets of such legendary films as GOODFELLAS and JFK. Along the way they’ve crossed paths with some extraordinary people, including fabled director Luis Bunuel, poet Kenneth Rexroth, reggae great Bob Marley, among many others."
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"Showing the similarities between German anti-Semitism and Southern racism through a rich compilation of interviews, archival film footage, and photographs, From Swastika to Jim Crow shows that both African-American students and their Jewish professors were familiar with prejudice and felt isolated from European American southern society. Their common understanding bonded them together to create a safe haven of interracial, intellectual dialogue and friendship."