The Soviet Paradise

The Soviet Paradise
	Promotional poster for the exhibition
German	Das Sowjet-Paradies
Directed by	Friedrich Albat
Release date	1941;
Running time	14 minutes
Country	Nazi Germany
Language	German

The Soviet Paradise (German original title "Das Sowjet-Paradies") was the name of an exhibition and a propaganda film, which was organized by the Reichspropagandaleitung (Department of Film of NSDAP) of the Nazi Party and was displayed in the larger cities of the Reich and occupied countries: Vienna, Prague, Berlin and others. Its goal was to show "poverty, misery, depravity and need" of the nations in the Soviet Union under Jewish Bolshevist rule and thus to justify the war against the Soviet Union. The accompanying guide for the exhibition noted, "The present Soviet state is nothing other than the realization of that Jewish invention".[1]

The exhibition included entire households with its contents, transported from the Eastern Front, on display.[2]

From 8 May[3] to 21 June 1942, the exhibition was in the Lustgarten in Berlin and according to official information 1.3 million people visited the show. On May 18 a Jewish-Communist resistance group called "Baum-Group" organized an arson attack, which caused only a small amount of damage. At least Herbert Baum and Marianne Baum and over 30 other people were arrested and executed.[4] A short propaganda film was created to supplement the exhibition.

External links

A partial English translation of a brochure from the exhibit

References

A partial English translation of a brochure from the exhibit, accessed August 2018
"'Soviet Paradise' On Show During Nazi Nightmare". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
Kallis, A (16 December 2005). Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War. Springer. p. 80. ISBN 9780230511101.
Granata, Cora Ann; Koos, Cheryl A. (2008). The human tradition in modern Europe, 1750 to the present. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-7425-5411-5.

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[1] A partial English translation of a brochure from the exhibit, accessed August 2018

[2] "'Soviet Paradise' On Show During Nazi Nightmare". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 2020-12-07.

[3] Kallis, A (16 December 2005). Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War. Springer. p. 80. ISBN 9780230511101.

[Granata-4] Granata, Cora Ann; Koos, Cheryl A. (2008). The human tradition in modern Europe, 1750 to the present. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-7425-5411-5.