Swastika Menace (1960)

Title - Recurrence of German Jew baiting poses question, can Nazis again threaten world? Various shots of Cologne Cathedral. M/S people walking along street in Cologne. C/U Swastika painted on a wall, partly rubbed out. L/S street paper seller. Various C/U’s of paper sellers. C/U of man buying a paper. C/U looking over the man’s shoulder at his paper. M/S London synagogue, C/U Swastika painted on brickwork, zoom in. M/S’s of the court of the Chief Rabbi (Adler House). C/U Swastika painted on a doorway. M/S Dr. Soper seated at desk (lead in for nat. sound). Dr. Soper (prison Chaplain) speaks: “Even if these exhibitions of Nazism, of anti-Semitism are insignificant in the sense that they’re only a few of them comparatively speaking, even if they are the results of juvenile delinquency rather than the organised renaissance of this evil thing, I find them most disturbing and I’m anxious that they should be opposed, that we should denounce them at once, because I remember what happened 25 years ago“. L/S
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