Why Austria is restoring a 1924 film that predicted the rise of the Nazis

Few knew it when it first screened, but "The City Without Jews" offered a glimpse of the future. Shot in 1924 Vienna, the silent movie imagined a Jew-hating chancellor coming to power in a city named Utopia. He blames his society's woes on its Jewish population, using smears to foment widespread anti-Semitism. Some of the details of the 70-minute film were […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/12/09/why-austria-is-restoring-a-1924-film-that-predicted-the-rise-of-the-nazis/