The Boys from Brazil (1978) stars Gregory Peck as Dr. Josef Mengele, biding his time in South America with plans to replica Hitler and launch a Fourth Reich. The name Adolf Hitler is synonymous with absolute evil, so much so that Jewish theologian Emil Fackenheim once called him “an eruption of demonism into history.” The success of The Boys from Brazil depends upon the audience’s willingness to go along with this assessment—and enough of them did to make the film a box office hit when it reached theaters in 1978. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and adapted from author Ira...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
