Rory Hanna

Defending democracy? The protests against Werner Krauss in West Berlin, 1950

by Rory Hanna on December 8, 2020

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In December 1950, chaotic scenes at a theatre in West Berlin made headlines in Germany and abroad. While Werner Krauss – an actor who had featured in Jud Süβ, the Third Reich’s most infamous antisemitic film – performed

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