When the final credits roll on Inglourious Basterds, expect to see the name Eli Roth pop up more than once. That's because in addition to playing Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz, Roth directed the short movie-within-a-movie Nation's Pride that is a central feature of the Basterd's plot.
Roth said that he was Tarantino's de facto "Jewish fact-checker" on the film and that he invited his mentor to his house for Passover Seder in 2007, at which the two engaged in many philosophical questions about WWII. In one exchange, Roth told Tarantino that he could "never" forgive the Nazis for what they had done to his people.
It's not that we don't forgive; we don't forget. Being Jewish is to remember. If I had the chance, I would kill every one of those (Nazis).
In Inglourious Basterds, Adolf Hitler and many of his elite officers gather together to watch Nation's Pride, a propaganda movie about Germany's best sniper. Tarantino normally directs everything himself but he allowed Roth to shoot the short movie, giving him a much larger second unit than he had planned for himself. Roth said that he learned a lot by working with Tarantino, but barely survived the process.
I almost died shooting it. But it's one of the most satisfying, orgasmic things I've done in my life. It's kosher porn.