The Soviet Paradise was the name of an exhibition and a propaganda film, which was organized by the Reichspropagandaleitung of the NSDAP and was displayed from May 8 to June 21, 1942 in the Lustgarten

Lustgarten

The Lustgarten is a park on Museum Island in central Berlin, near the site of the former Berliner Stadtschloss of which it was originally a part...

 in Berlin

Berlin

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. Its goal was to show "poverty, misery, depravity and need" in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 and to justify the war against the Soviet Union. According to official information, 1.3 million people visited the show.

On May 18 a Jewish-Communist

Communism

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 resistance group called "Baum

Herbert Baum

Herbert Baum was a Jewish member of the German resistance against National Socialism.Baum was born in Mosina, Province of Posen; his family moved to Berlin when he was young...

-Group" organized an arson, that only caused little damage. At least 33 people were executed. A short propaganda film was created to supplement the exhibition.

External links

• Complete film on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UubTRCIymd4
• A partial English translation of a brochure from the exhibit