One of the most macabre ironies of the 20th century is that the piece of cinema that can be described as the first Holocaust film was produced a long time before the actual Holocaust. And an even more macabre irony is that the film is, or at least was supposed to be, a satirical comedy. That film is *The City Without Jews*, a 1924 Austrian silent film directed by Hans Karl Breslauer. The film is based on the eponymo…







