Europa: The Last Battle
Directed byTobias Bratt
Release date
2017
Running time
12 hours[1]
CountrySweden
LanguageEnglish

Europa: The Last Battle is a neo-Nazi propaganda film[9] released in 2017.[10]

Narrative

The film promotes various antisemitic conspiracy theories, claiming that communism was created by Jews with a goal of "total world domination"[1] and that Jews control the world's money supply.[6] It also engages in historical revisionism to claim that Jews started World War I and II as part of a plot to establish Israel by provoking the Nazis into acting in self-defense.[3][11] The film also claims that Jews caused Germany's defeat in World War I, which is commonly referred to as the stab-in-the-back myth, and that Adolf Hitler was fighting against a global Jewish plot.[11]

Gregory Davis, a researcher at the U.K.-based anti-racism group Hope not Hate, said the film "denies the proven reality of the Holocaust whilst providing justifications for the violent antisemitism that fuelled it", adding, "Its mix of blatant falsehoods and slanted portrayal of real events gives it no historical legitimacy whatsoever, and it serves only to demonise the Jewish people and whitewash the crimes of the Nazi regime."[6]

Creator

The film was produced by a Swedish far-right activist associated with the Nordic Resistance Movement, a European neo-Nazi movement.[12]

Promotion

The film has been promoted by white supremacists[10][13] and antisemitic conspiracy theorists,[10] the British conspiracy newspaper The Light[14] and QAnon conspiracy theorists on Telegram.[18] It has also been shared on platforms such as Instagram,[12] BitChute,[2] the Telegram chat of the Germany-based disinformation outlet Disclose.tv as of January 2022[5] and on TikTok as of March 2023.[11][6] YouTube and Facebook have blocked the film from being uploaded, but links to the film on other sites can be shared.[12]

As of June 2023, Twitter was running advertisements for major brands such as Disney, Microsoft and ESPN next to tweets from verified users sharing long clips from the film.[7][8]

References

  1. 1 2 Piper, Ernie; Wildon, Jordan (October 22, 2021). "Telegram COVID-19 Conspiracy Group Rife With Antisemitism". Logically. Archived from the original on July 13, 2023. Retrieved July 13, 2023.
  2. 1 2 Siapera, Eugenia (July 24, 2023). "Alt Tech and the public sphere: Exploring Bitchute as a political media infrastructure". European Journal of Communication. 38 (5): 446–465. doi:10.1177/02673231231189041. ISSN 0267-3231. For example, the antisemitic and neo-Nazi film Europa – the Last Battle (2017), a 10-h film which is banned from YouTube, is found across several Bitchute channels.
  3. 1 2 3 Gilbert, David (May 26, 2021). "QAnon's Antisemitism Is Finally Being Displayed in Full". Vice. Archived from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved March 26, 2023. But last week, the underlying antisemitic content that GhostEzra had always been pushing came to the fore in a series of posts on their Telegram channel that left no doubt about just how extreme the account was. It began by promoting the neo-Nazi film "Europa – the Last Battle" a 10-part film that claims Jews created Communism, and deliberately started both world wars as part of a plot to found Israel by provoking the innocent Nazis, who were only defending themselves.
  4. ↑ "QAnon's Antisemitism and What Comes Next". Anti-Defamation League. September 17, 2021. Archived from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved March 26, 2023. By May 20, he was posting links to neo-Nazi propaganda film "Europa: the Last Battle" and to the Wikipedia page for "crypto-Judaism."
  5. 1 2 Thomas, W. F. (January 12, 2022). "Disclose.tv: Conspiracy Forum Turned Disinformation Factory". Logically. Archived from the original on October 26, 2022. Retrieved March 26, 2023. Some share outright neo-Nazi propaganda, encouraging others in the Telegram chat to watch Europa - The Last Battle.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Pope, Felix (March 2, 2023). "TikTok is still hosting Nazi propaganda, despite warnings". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  7. 1 2 DeGeurin, Mack (June 17, 2023). "Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, NBA Alongside Neo-Nazi Videos". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on June 28, 2023. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
  8. 1 2 Tangalakis-Lippert, Katherine (June 19, 2023). "Advertisers are returning to Twitter after Linda Yaccarino calmed fears over content moderation. But now brands like Disney, Microsoft, and the NBA have ads placed next to neo-Nazi propaganda". Business Insider. Archived from the original on June 27, 2023. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
  9. ↑ [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
  10. 1 2 3 "Europa The Last Battle". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  11. 1 2 3 Williams, Arron (February 2, 2023). "False: The First and Second World Wars were started by Jewish nationalists trying to create Israel". Logically. Archived from the original on March 27, 2023. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
  12. 1 2 3 "Antisemitism in the Digital Age: Online Antisemitic Hate, Holocaust Denial, Conspiracy Ideologies and Terrorism in Europe" (PDF). Hope not Hate. October 13, 2021. p. 34. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 16, 2023. Retrieved September 23, 2023.
  13. ↑ Pantuso, Phillip (October 4, 2022). "White supremacists leave flyers in Chatham and Ulster County". Times Union (Albany). Archived from the original on June 24, 2023. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
  14. ↑ Lawrence, David (June 30, 2022). "Turning Off "The Light": the conspiracist newspaper promoting the far right". Hope Not Hate. Archived from the original on March 4, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  15. ↑ Gilbert, David (October 18, 2021). "QAnon Is Becoming Even More Antisemitic". Vice. Archived from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  16. ↑ Gilbert, David (November 5, 2021). "Meet the Antisemitic QAnon Leader Who Led Followers to Dallas to Meet JFK". Vice. Archived from the original on March 27, 2023. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
  17. ↑ Thomas, W. F. (February 11, 2022). "Telegram: The Social Network Where Conspiracies Meet". Logically. Archived from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  18. ↑ [3][15][16][17]
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