Gregory Davis, a researcher at the United Kingdom-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."[7]
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.[8][9]
References
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"Telegram COVID-19 Conspiracy Group Rife With Antisemitism". Logically.
Archived from the original on July 13, 2023. Retrieved July 13, 2023. The link to the antisemitic documentary Europa: The Last Battle, a 12-hour film that among other claims asserts that Jews created communism with a goal of 'total world domination', has been shared multiple times in the chat, sometimes multiple times per day.
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abcdGilbert, 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.
^"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."
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abGill, Gerard (December 8, 2021).
"Fascist cross-pollination of Australian conspiracist Telegram channels". First Monday.
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Archived from the original on April 27, 2023. Retrieved February 8, 2024. In the QAnon channel, a poster opines that "The power of the mainstream media is waning ... People are instead finding alternative media sources ... Real people, not algorithms, are sharing documentaries like Europa: The Last Battle ...". These information sources are respectively an anti-Semitic revisionist history of WWII...