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1919-1947 - Between Two Post-Wars:
Steps in the Fate of Germany

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1919-1939 Premonitions




Extreme avantgarde!
German experimental Cinema in the Weimar Republic

Besides the universally known works of the Expressionist masters like Murnau, Lang, Wiene, Wegener and Boese, German cinematography of the Weimar period is letterally full of almost hidden trasures and less known great directors.
Two important authors of the experimental avantgarde German cinema, Walther Ruttmann and Hans Richter, were originally painters, friends and collaborators. Their lifes and careers later took different directions, and they faced two completely different destinies.



Oltre ai capolavori universalmente noti dei maestri dell'Espressionismo come Murnau, Lang, Wiene, Wegener e Boese, la cinematografia tedesca degli anni di Weimar è letteralmente piena di tesori nascosti e di grandi cineasti meno conosciuti.
Due fra i principali autori tedeschi del cinema sperimentale dell'epoca, Walther Ruttmann e Hans Richter, erano originariamente entrambi pittori, amici e collaboratori. In seguito le loro vite si divisero, consegnandoli a due destini completamente differenti.



Avantgarde German filmmaker Walther Ruttmann (born in Frankfurt am Main, in 1887), created his first movies in 1921. The films were short animation experiments titled Opus 1, 2, 3 e 4. Later, Ruttmann created the Impressionistic "City Symphony" movement when he released Berlin: Symphony of a Big City in 1927. A rhythmic, documentary-look at the city's industry and daily life, the film inspired a number of imitators. Before becoming an experimental filmmaker in the early '20s, Ruttman was a painter and an architect. In 1924, he helmed the dream sequence in Lang's Die Niebelungen, and two years later collaborated with Lotte Reiniger to create the first feature-length animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed. Following the success of Berlin, Ruttman joined the Nazi Party and later made another "City Symphony" film called World Melody in 1929. In 1933 Ruttmann directed a Futuristic film in Italy, Steel, written by the Italian Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello. He helped edit Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, in 1938. During WWII, he made propaganda films for the Nazis. Ruttmann was wounded while filming a battle on the eastern front in 1941. Recovered in Berlin, he died soon after.


Walther Ruttmann

Nato a Francoforte sul Meno nel 1887, Walther Ruttmann, fu una delle punte dell'avanguardia cinematografica tedesca. Esordì nel 1921 con una serie di brevi films animati sperimentali, Opus 1, 2, 3 e 4. Nel 1927 creò il movimento Impressionista "Sinfonia della città" con il film Berlino, sinfonia di una grande città, generando un grande numero di imitazioni da parte di svariati cineasti dell'epoca. Prima di dedicarsi al cinema sperimentale, Ruttmann, che aveva aderito giovanissimo al movimento Dada, era pittore e architetto. Nel 1924 supervisionò la sequenza del sogno nel Die Nibelungen di Lang e, due anni dopo, collaborò con Lotte Reininger nella creazione del primo lungometraggio di animazione, Le avventure del principe Achmed. Dopo il successo di Berlino, sinfonia di una grande città, Ruttmann, caso pressochè unico nell'ambito delle avanguardie artistiche dell'epoca, aderì al partito nazista e girò in seguito, nel 1929, un altro film "Sinfonia della città" intitolato Melodia del Mondo. Il regista tedesco, nel 1933, diresse anche, con uno stile prettamente Futurista, un film in Italia, Acciaio, con soggetto di Luigi Pirandello, quasi interamente girato all'interno delle acciaierie di Terni. L'anno seguente Ruttmann fu suggerito, senza successo, da Leni Riefenstal direttamente al neo-Cancelliere Hitler come regista ideale per Il trionfo della volontà, il film che era in cantiere e che la Riefenstal stessa avrebbe in seguito diretto celebrando i fasti del raduno nazista di Norimberga del 1934, il primo dopo la presa del potere da parte di Hitler. Quattro anni dopo ci fu una collaborazione diretta di Ruttmann al montaggio del film di Leni Riefenstal sulle Olimpiadi di Berlino del 1936, Olympia. Allo scoppio della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, Ruttmann cominciò a girare documentari e reportages di propaganda per i nazisti. Nel 1941, a 54 anni, fu gravemente ferito mentre filmava con la sua cinepresa una battaglia sul fronte russo. Ricoverato a Berlino, morì pochi giorni dopo.


Walther Ruttmann in 1927

Born in Berlin, Germany in 1888, animator Hans Richter started out as a Cubist painter in Berlin. With artists Tristan Tzara and Jean Arp, he helped establish Dadaism in Zurich in 1916. Working in Germany with Viking Eggeling in the 1920s, he produced the short films Rythm 21, Rythm 23 and Rythm 25, as well as, among the others, Film Study and Ghosts Before Breakfast. In the late 1920s and 1930s, Richter turned to advertising and lecturing before quitting Nazi Germany and settling in New York in the 1940s. In the US he produced live-action experimental films. Between 1942 and 1957, he was the director of the Film Institute of the City College of New York. Hans Richter passed away in Switzerland in 1976.


Hans Richter

Uno dei più grandi e innovativi autori del cinama tedesco d'avanguardia, Hans Richter, naque a Berlino nel 1888. Famoso animatore e sviluppatore delle tecniche di animazione "stop motion", Richter iniziò la sua carriera artistica aderendo, come pittore, al Cubismo. Trasferitosi in Svizzera, a Zurigo, nel 1916 fù tra i fondatori del Dadaismo assieme agli artisti Tristan Tzara e Jean Arp. Tornato in Germania, produsse, con la collaborazione di Viking Eggeling, i cortometraggi sperimentali Ritmo 21, Ritmo 23 e Ritmo 25, che furono poi seguiti da una vasta produzione di altri "corti" fra i quali Studio di film e Fantasmi prima di colazione.
Dalla fine degli anni 20 ai primi anni del 1930 Richter produsse filmati pubblicitari e tenne conferenze e lezioni sul cinema. Alla presa del potere da parte dei nazisti, che in seguito bandirono e distrussero i suoi films considerandoli "arte degenerata", Richter lasciò la Germania e, dopo aver girovagato per qualche anno per l'Europa, si trasferì a New York intorno al 1940. Negli Stati Uniti diresse dei films sperimentali girati per la prima volta "in tempo reale", senza più ricorrere alla sue consuete tecniche di animazione. Fra il 1942 e il 1957 fu direttore del Film Institute del City College di New York. Hans Richter morì in Svizzera, quasi novantenne, nel 1976.


Hans Richter, first on the left, in New York City, circa 1941

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1919germany-EinzudDerWurtemberger.mp4
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Einzud Der Wurtemberger (1919)

Producer: Unknown

The 1919 Bavarian Communist Republic putsch is stopped by the German army machine guns. The walls of the houses of Munchen, crippled with bullets, are an extraordinary visual anticipation/premonition of the aftermath of WW2, when almost all of the German houses will be turned into ruins.

La rivolta degli spartachisti a Monaco nel 1919 è repressa dal fuoco delle mitragliatrici dell'esercito tedesco. Le mura delle case di Monaco, crivellate dai proiettili, sono una straordinaria anticipazione visiva, quasi una premonizione delle distruzioni cui le città tedesche saranno sottoposte durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale.


1919Caligari.mpeg
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Das Cabinet des Doktor Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) (1919/20)
Director: Robert Wiene
Producer: Rudolf Meinert and Erich Pommer
Production Company: Decla-Film-Ges. Holz & Co. (Berlin)
US 1942 version

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the first modern Horror Film and it influence a number of contemporary productions.
A real classic!
A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiancée Jane. Alan takes him to a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, that can predict the future.
When Alan asks how long he has to live, Cesare says he has until dawn. The prophecy comes to pass, as Alan is murdered, and Cesare is a prime suspect.
Cesare creeps into Jane's bedroom and abducts her, running from the townspeople and finally dying of exhaustion.
Meanwhile, the police discover a dummy in Cesare's cabinet, while Caligari flees.
Francis tracks Caligari to a mental asylum. He is the director! Or is he?

Il Gabinetto del Dr. Caligari, capolavoro dell'Espressionismo tedesco, si può considerare il primo film dell'orrore moderno. Ha influenzato molte opere della cinematografia contemporanea. Un vero classico! Commento musicale aggiunto negli anni 40. Didascalie in Inglese.


1920the-golem.mpeg
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Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem) (1920)
Director: Carl Boese and Paul Wegener
Producer: Paul Davidson
Production Company: Projektion-AG Union (PAGU)
English intertitles

This second version of the golem legend is set in 16th century Prague, the era in which Rabbi Loew has created the giant golem from clay in order to save the Jews from persecution by the despot Rudolf II.
Loew's assistant, Famulus, has different plans, however, as he takes control of the golem and orders it to perform criminal acts, among which is the kidnapping of Miriam, the Rabbi's daughter.
Rebelling against the sordid tasks set for him, the golem goes on a murderous rampage...

Il Golem, un altro grande classico dell'Espressionismo tedesco, nella seconda versione. Commento musicale aggiunto negli anni 40. Didascalie in Inglese.


1921richter-rythm21.ram
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Rithmus 21(Rythm 21) (1921)
Director and Producer: Hans Richter

Experimental Dada short.

Cortometraggio Dada sperimentale.


1921Ruttmann_Opus-Lichtspiel_Opus1-2-3-4.Avi
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Opus-Lichtspiel - Opus 1 / Opus 2 / Opus 3 / Opus 4 (1921)
Director and Producer: Walther Ruttmann

Four experimental Dada shorts.

Quattro cortometraggi Dada sperimentali.


1922nosferatu.mpg
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Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens (Nosferatu) (1922)
Director: F.W. Murnau
Production Company: Jofa-Atelier Berlin-Johannisthal / Prana-Film GmbH
US Version from fhe 40ies, acquired through the courtesy of
La Cinemathèque Francaise
English intertitles

Originally released in 1922 as Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens, director F.W. Murnau's chilling and eerie adaption of Stoker's Dracula is a silent masterpiece of terror which to this day is the most striking and frightening portrayal of the legend.

Un capolavoro del terrore (e dell'Espressionismo tedesco) finora insuperato. Commento musicale aggiunto negli anni 40. Didascalie in Inglese.


1923richter-rythm23.ram
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Rithmus 23 (Rythm 23) (1923)
Director and Producer: Hans Richter

Experimental Dada short.

Cortometraggio Dada sperimentale.


1926Faust-Eine_Deutsche_Volgssage.mpeg
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Faust - Eine Deutsche Volgssage (Faust: A German Folk Legend) (1926)
Director: F.W. Murnau
Production Company: Universum Film A.G (UFA)
English intertitles - 1997 restored version

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist. During a plague, Faust despairs and burns his books after failing to stop death; Satan sends Mephisto to tempt Faust, first with insight into treating the plague and then with a day's return to youth. Mephisto is clever, timing the end of this 24 hours as Faust embraces the beautiful Duchess of Parma. Faust trades his soul for youth. Some time later, he's bored, and demands on Easter Sunday that Mephisto take him home. Faust promptly sees and falls in love with the beautiful Gretchen, whose liaison with him brings her dishonor. Is there redemption? Who wins the wager?

L'intramontabile capolavoro del visionario Murnau. Mephisto convince l'Arcangelo Gabriele a fare una scommessa con lui: riuscirà a corrompere l'onesto professor Faust e conquisterà, in questo modo, le anime degli esseri umani. Dopo aver portato la peste in paese, Mephisto arriva ad un accordo con il professore, per farlo entrare in possesso di poteri taumaturgici per poter curare i malati. Inoltre, il Diavolo gli dona la giovinezza e l'amore della giovane e bella Margherita, da sempre amata da Faust. Ma proprio l'amore per la donna darà al povero Faust la consapevolezza di un nuovo spirito e di una nuova coscienza: il contratto verrà invalidato e l'umanità sarà salva. Didascalie in Inglese.


1926Richter_Filmstudie.avi
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Film Studie (Film Study) (1926)
Director and Producer: Hans Richter

Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray's work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads.

Divertente cortometraggio sperimentale Dadaista, girato con tecniche simili a quelle di Man Ray, pieno di figure geometriche, brani di repertorio con gabbiani, pupille volanti e teste galleggianti!


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Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt (Berlin, Symphony of a Big City) (1927)
Director and Producer: Walther Ruttmann
Production Companies: Deutsche Vereinsfilm AG - Les Productions Fox Europa

The Walther Ruttman's movie "Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt" (Berlin, Symphony of a Big City) (1927). A rhythmic, documentary-look at the city's industry and daily life.
Classic and splendid film that is still fascinating to watch. Walther Ruttmann did not make a documentary about Berlin, although 75 after date it certainly can be considered a document about a Berlin that is no more, he composed a film that tries to catch the essence of the atmosphere of a big city. The film is a good example of the art style Neue Sachlichkeit (functionalism): it is a cross-section of Berlin's life in which every element is equally important, shown without comment and in its totality it is the expression of the joy of Berlin's life. It is not a film about the life of Berliners, it is Berlin seen as a living mechanism.
The subtitle referring to Großstadt (big city) is the key, it could have been any other city. The idea as such is not the makers' prerogative. Elsewhere the fascination with the hustle and bustle of the big city was also present as was the idea to catch this on this film and in music: e.g. Cavalcanti in France made a film about Paris and the US Ferde Grofé composed his musical suite Metropolis (1927) with New York in his mind. The irony of all these endeavours is that the film or music is abstract, but that the result is a romanticizing view.
Ruttmann made several abstract film and he refers to them in the beginning with abstract horizontal lines dissolving to rail way tracks. In my view the rest of the film is also abstract. Although we see real people and situations the brilliant editing constantly keeps the film abstract: the situation and the people in a shot are not important, important is the juxtaposition to other shots: is the composition varied enough?. Thus we see a filmic composition (in stead of a musical one) and the subtitle Symphony is just. As with every composition the theme has to be modulated to keep it interesting and it is here where the weakness of the film is. The building up from the start and elaboration up to the beginning of the afternoon is splendid, precise and exiting; but from that point it bogs down for a while: we see another shop, another street etc. without adding much to what already was. It may be that Ruttmann was aware of this, note how quickly he finishes the afternoon to continue with the night-life and then immediately all the excitement and filmic fun is back.
In an 1939 interview cameraman Karl Freund said that everything possible was filmed using only candid cameras. I have my doubts. Let's take for example the sequence of the drowning lady: how could he make an extreme close-up with a hidden camera in such a brilliant angle? (By the way: if she really tried to commit suicide, was Freund himself not only one of the gaping bystanders without doing anything to save her?) How could he foresee the right angle to film the prostitute picking up her client near the cornered shop window? Not that it matters for the quality of the film, but it proofs the old adagium: filming is deceiving.

Il film del 1927 di Walther Ruttman "Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt"  (Berlino, sinfonia di una grande città). Un documentario con tempi e inquadrature Dadaiste su una giornata nella vita della gente e delle industrie di Berlino.
Click HERE to watch an excerpt from this film on GoogleVideo
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1927berlin-STILLS.mov
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Producer: Romano-Archives

Slide-show of stills from the Walther Ruttman's movie "Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt" (Berlin, Symphony of a Big City) (1927).

Sequenza di fotogrammi dal film del 1927 di Walther Ruttman "Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt"  (Berlino, sinfonia di una grande città).


1928CubismWeimarBerlin.mov
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Excerpt from epoca German newsreels. In the Weimar Republic, Cubism can still be noticed in architecture and arts, expecially in Berlin.

Spezzoni di cinegiornali tedeschi dell'epoca. Il Cubismo, nella Germania di Weimar, influenza ancora l'architettura e le arti berlinesi.


1928Richter_Ghosts-before-breakfast.m2v
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Vormittagsspuk (Ghots Before Breakfast) (1928)
Director and Producer: Hans Richter
Cast: Paul Hindemith
Scenario by Werner Graeff.
Cinematography by Reimar Kuntze.
Original music score by Paul Hindemith.
Released 14 July 1928.
Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

"Ghosts Before Breakfast" ("Vormittagespuk") is Richter's witty, cinegenic mini-classic on the universal theme of the object's revolt and an excellent introduction to avant-garde film for all audiences.
The Nazis counted him among the degenerate artists and in 1941 he emigrated to the United States and became an American citizen several years later.
The Nazis destroyed Hans Richter's "Vormittagsspuk" because they found it dangerously subversive.

Vero mini-classico, "Fantasmi prima di colazione" tratta il tema universale della rivolta degli oggetti. E' un eccellente film da usare come approccio alla cinematografia d'avanguardia tedesca del periodo di Weimar.
I nazisti distrussero le copie ed il negativo originale del film, considerandolo "estremamente sovversivo"...


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Inflation (1928)
Director and Producer: Hans Richter

An ironic look at the dangerous effects of inflation in Germany.

Uno sguardo ironico e derisorio ai terribili effetti dell'inflazione in Germania.


1928Richter_Race-Simphony.avi
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Rennsymphonie (Race Simphony) (1928)
Director and Producer: Hans Richter

A tribute to Walther Ruttman by Hans Richter. A day at the races in Weimar Germany.

Un chiaro omaggio di Richter all'amico Walther Ruttmann. Una giornata all'ippodromo nella Germania di Weimar , girato con tecniche chiaramente ispirate a "Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt"  (Berlino, sinfonia di una grande città).


1929Richter_Everything-Turnes-Everything-Resolves.avi
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Alles Dreht Sich, Alles Bewegt Sich (Everything Turnes, Everything Resolves) (1929)
Director and Producer: Hans Richter

Dada abstract symbolistic short.

Cortometraggio astratto e pieno di simbolismi arcani.


1930Richter_Two-Pence-Magic.avi
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Zweigroshenzauber (Two Pence Magic) (1930)
Director and Producer: Hans Richter

Another Richter's Dada abstract symbolistic short.

Ancora un cortometraggio Dada di Richter, astratto e pieno di simbolismi.


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M (1931)
Director: Fritz Lang
Producer: Seymour Nebenzal
Production Company: Nero-Film GmbH (Berlin)

What makes "M" so remarkable? What are its outstanding features and contributions?
Peter Lorre's portrayal of a serial killer is one of the defining performances of movie history. Not only did it set the benchmark for his own career (something which he may have regretted for years to follow) it also defined the role of the psychopatic killer for all the future movie productions.
It was one of the very first movies with audio track. Fritz Lang handled the new medium of sound in a very professional manner, employing off-voices and personal music themes (he even goes so far as tieing a specific melody - Grieg's "Hall Of The Mountain King" - to the dangerous state of the murderer, in one of the most impressive scenes of the movie the Beckert tries to supress his devious instincts and as he struggles to control himself he starts whistling the trademark melody until his transformation into the killer is complete). These are traits that may be quite common for today's good movies but it is absolutely brilliant for a director's very first experience with a brand-new technology.
"M" is the predecessor to all serial killer thrillers like "Psycho" and "The Silence Of The Lambs", one of the defining movies of European pre-WWII cinema and much more.
"M" premiered May 11th 1931 in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin to the standing ovations of an enthusiastic audience.

"M" was outlawed once the Nazis came into power and pictures of Peter Lorre's portrayal of "M" ended up in the chilling anti-Semitic propaganda movie "Der Ewige Jude" (The Eternal Jew).


Peter Lorre in the lower right.
In "Der Ewige Jude" the narrator reads: Der Jude Lorre in der Rolle eines Kindermörders. Nach dem Schlagwort: "Nicht der Mörder, sondern der Ermordete ist schuldig", wird versucht, das normale Rechtsempfinden zu verdrehen und durch mitleiderregende Darstellung des Verbrechers das Verbrechen zu beschönigen und zu entschuldigen.
Translation: The Jew Lorre in the role of a child murderer. Following the motto: "Not the murderer but the murdered is guilty", it is tried to contort the normal sense of justice and to excuse and lessen the crime with a compassion inducing portrayal of it.

"M" di Fritz Lang, con Peter Lorre nel ruolo dell'assassino. Una pietra miliare della cinematografia tedesca. Il film fu in seguito bandito dai nazisti, che ne utilizzarono alcuni fotogrammi con Peter Lorre nell'agghiacciante film di propaganda anti-semita "Der Ewige Jude" (L'Eterno Ebreo).




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Excerpt from: Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (1931)

Director: Alexis Granowsky
Producer: Tobis Filmkunst

Another essay of Lorre's acting greatness in this excerpt from the 1931 film "Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.". The film was later outlawed by the Nazis.

Un altro saggio delle capacità iinterpretative di Peter Lorre in questo estratto dal film del 1931 "Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.". Il film fu in seguito messo al bando dai nazisti.


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Die Verkaufte Braut (1932)

Director: Max Ophuls
Producer: Hermann Rosenfeld and Ludwig Scheer

Infos about this film are available on its IMDB page.

Tutte le informazioni su questo film sono disponibili sulla relativa pagina IMDB.


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Albert Einstein and his wife in the USA, after escaping from Nazi Germany.

Albert Einstein e signora arrivano negli Stati Uniti dopo essere fuggiti dalla Germania, subito dopo la presa del potere da parte di Hitler.


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Deutschland Erwacht - Ein Dokument von der Wiedergeburt Deutschlands (1933)
Produced by: Lignose Hörfilm - Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)

Nazi propaganda film.

Film nazista di propaganda.


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Fur Uns - Zum Appel (1933)
Producer: Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)

10 years anniversary ceremony to remember the fallen in the attempted Putsch of 1923.

Documentario sul decimo anniversario del fallito Putsch di Monaco del 1923.


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Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der Deutschen Jugend (1933)
Directed by: Hans Steinhoff
Producer: Universum Film (UfA)

The story of a German boy, born in a Communist family, joining the Hitler Youth.

La storia di un ragazzo tedesco con genitori comunisti che si arruola nella Hitlerjugend.


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Der Deutsche Reichstag zu Nuernberg(1933)
Producer: Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)

Propaganda documentary about the Reichstag in Nuremburg visited by Hitler.

Documentario di propaganda su una visita di Hitler a Norimberga.


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Nuremburg Rallies - Official Films 1927-1933 (1933)
Producer: Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)

Original montage of official footage filmed between 1927 and 1933 at the Nazi rallies in Nuremburg.

Montaggio originale di filmati ufficiali dei raduni nazisti svolti a Norimberga dal 1927 al 1933.


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Adolf Hitler - Zum Baubeginn der Reichsautobahne (1933)
Producer: Unknown

Adolf Hitler speaks at the beginning of the construction of the first German highway.

Adolf Hitler parla all'inaugurazione del cantiere per la costruzione della prima autostrada tedesca.


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Dr Fritz Todt - Zum Baubeginn der Reichsautobahne (1933)
Producer: Unknown

Fritz Todt speaks at the beginning of the construction of the first German highway. At the end appears an Opel automobiles ad in color.

Fritz Todt parla all'inaugurazione del cantiere per la costruzione della prima autostrada tedesca. Il filmato termina con una pubblicità a colori delle automobili Opel.


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S.A. Mann Brand (1933)
Produced by: Bavaria Film
Directed by: Franz Seitz
S.A.-Mann Brand was made at the start of the Third Reich. It was released in mid-June 1933, and depicted events as recent as March of that year.

Film del 1933 che tratta del ruolo delle S.A. nella fase di affermazione del nazismo.


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Jugend Regatta in Graunau (circa 1934)

Producer: Unknown

Hitler Youth regatta in Graunau.

Regata per ragazzi della Hitlerjugend.


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Thriumph des Willens (1934)

Produced by: N.D.S.A.P.
Directed by: Leni Riefenstahl

Documentary film of the 1934 Reich Party Day in Nurberg.

Documentario sul raduno del Partito Nazionalsocialista di Norimberga del 1934.


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Göring's Lion, Cesar (1935)

Amateur footage filmed at Göring's mansion, Karinhalle in 1935.

Filmato amatoriale girato nella villa principesca di Hermann Goering, Karinhalle.


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Ewige Wache - Film ueber die Feldherrnhalle (1936)
Production: Dr. Brieger - Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)

Nazi propaganda film.

Film nazista di propaganda.


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Der Fuehrer Besichtigt die Leibstandarte und Auszug vom Reichsparteitag (1936)
Production: Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)

Nazi propaganda film.

Film nazista di propaganda.


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Reichsparteitag der Ehre in Nürnberg (1936)
Production: UfA - N.D.S.A.P.

Documentary film of the 1936 Reich Party Day in Nurberg (fragment).

Documentario sul raduno del Partito Nazionalsocialista di Norimberga del 1936 (frammento).








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Olympische Winterspiele in Garmish-Partenkirchen(1936)
Producer unknown

Amateur documentary film of the 1936 Winter Olimpic Games in Garmish-Partenkirchen.

Documentario amatoriale di ottima qualità sui Giochi Olimpici Invernali del 1936 a Garmish-Partenkirchen.




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Hitlerjugend in den Bergen (circa1937)
Director: Stuart J. Lutz
Producer: Unknown

Nazi propaganda film about the activities of an Hitlerjugend group at a mountain summer camp.

Film nazista di propaganda, illustra le attività svolte ad un campo estivo della Hitlerjugend.


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Mussolini Visits Germany (1937)
Production: UfA

Documentary film of the 1937 Benito Mussolini trip to Germany.

Documentario sulla visita di Mussolini in Germania del 1937.




Entartete Kunst
(Degenerate Art)



The years 1927-37 were critical for artists in Germany. In 1927, the National Socialist Society for German Culture was formed. The aim of this organization was to halt the "corruption of art" and inform the people about the relationship between race and art. By 1933, the terms "Jewish," "Degenerate," and "Bolshevik" were in common use to describe almost all modern art.

Il decennio 1927-1937 é stato critico per gli artisti in Germania.
Nel 1927 venne fondata la Società Nazional Socialista per la Cultura Tedesca. Lo scopo di questa organizzazione era di fermare la "corruzione delle arti" ed informare il popolo sulla relazione esistente fra la razza e l'arte.
Entro il 1933 i termini "Giudeo", "Degenerato" e "Bolscevico" erano entrati in uso comune per descrivere praticamente tutta l'Arte Moderna.



In 1937, Nazi officials purged German museums of works the Party considered to be "degenerate". From the thousands of works removed, 650 were chosen for a special exhibit of Entartete Kunst. The exhibit opened in Munich and then traveled to eleven other cities in Germany and Austria. In each installation, the works were poorly hung and surrounded by graffiti and hand written labels mocking the artists and their creations. Over three million visitors attended making it the first "blockbuster" exhibition.

Nel 1937 i nazisti eliminarono ufficialmente dai musei tutte le opere che il partito considerava essere "Arte Degenerata". Fra le oltre 16000 opere d'arte rimosse dai musei e sequestrate dai nazisti, 650 opere moderniste furono scelte per una mostra particolare dedicata al tema della "degenerazione dell'Arte", Entartete Kunst . Nell'ottica del regime nazista, questa mostra doveva denunciare i pericoli della cultura ebraica e bolscevica. La mostra venne inaugurata a Monaco e in seguito viaggiò in altre undici città in Germania ed in Austria. Le opere vennero ammassate alla rinfusa in poche sale, spesso appese per sfregio nel verso sbagliato, contornate da scritte e graffiti infamanti sul genere di: "Un insulto agli Eroi Tedeschi della Grande Guerra", oppure: "Arte che offende la Religione", "Natura vista da menti malate"... La scritta più ricorrente recitava: "Opere pagate con i soldi del contribuente Tedesco", il cui obbiettivo dichiarato era quello di suscitare risentimento nel visitatore comune, all'epoca poco abituato al difficile linguaggio delle avanguardie. Nonostante tutto, tre milioni di visitatori fecero di Entartete Kunst (Arte Degenerata) la prima delle grandi mostre moderne.



Here is a complete list of the artists included in the exhibit's catalog.

Questa é una lista completa degli artisti inclusi nel catalogo della mostra.

* Adler, Jankel
* Barlach, Ernst
* Bauer, Rudolf
* Bauknecht, Philipp
* Baum, Otto
* Baumeister, Willi
* Bayer, Herbert
* Beckmann, Max
* Belling, Rudolf
* Bindel, Paul
* Brün, Theo
* Burchartz, Max
* Burger-Mühlfeld, Fritz
* Camenisch, Paul
* Caspar, Karl
* Caspar-Filser, Maria
* Cassel, Pol
* Chagall, Marc
* Corinth, Lovis
* Davringhausen, Heinrich
* Dexel, Walter
* Diesner, Johannes
* Dix, Otto
* Drexel, Hans Christoph
* Dreisch, Johannes
* Eberhard, Heinrich
* Ernst, Max
* Feibusch, Hans
* Feininger, Lyonel
* Felixmüller, Conrad
* Freundlich, Otto
* Fuhr, Xaver
* Gies, Ludwig
* Gilles, Walter
* Gleichmann, Otto
* Grossmann, Rudolph
* Grosz, George
* Grunding, Hans
* Haizmann, Richard
* Hausmann, Raoul
* Hebert, Guido
* Heckel, Erich
* Heckrott, Wilhelm
* Heemskerck, Jacoba van
* Heister, Hans Seibert von
* Herzog, Oswald
* Heuser, Werner
* Hoerle, Heinrich
* Hoefer, Karl
* Hoffman, Eugen
* Itten, Johannes
* Jawlensky, Alexej von
* Johansen, Eric
* Kallmann, Hans Jürgen
* Kandinsky, Wassily
* Katz, Hans
* Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig
* Klee, Paul
* Klein, Cesar
* Kleinschmidt, Paul
* Kokoschka, Oskar
* Lange, Otto
* Lehmbruck, Wilhelm
* Lissitzky, El
* lüthy, Oskar
* Marc, Franz
* Marcks, Gerhard
* Matare' Ewald
* Meidner, Ludwig
* Metzinger, Jean
* Mitschke-Collande, Constantin von
* Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo
* Moll, Margarethe
* Moll, Oskar
* Molzahn, Johannes
* Mondrian, Piet
* Muche, George
* Meuller, Otto
* Nagel, Erich
* Nauen, Heinrich
* Nay, Ernst Wilhelm
* Neistrath, Karel
* Nolde, Emil
* Pankok, Otto
* Pechstein, Max
* Watenphul, Max Peiffer
* Purrmann, Hans
* Rauh, Max
* Richter, Hans
* Röder, Emy
* Rohlfs, Christian
* Scharff, Edwin
* Schlemmer, Oskar
* Schlichter, Rudolph
* Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl
* Scholz, Werner
* Schreyer, Lothar
* Schubert, Otto
* Schwitters, Kurt
* Segal, Lasar
* Skade, Friedrich
* Stukenberg, Friedrich (Fritz)
* Thalheimer, Paul
* Tietz, Johannes
* Topp, Arnold
* Völker, Karl
* Voll, Christoph
* Wauer, William
* Wollheim, Gert

Many of the artists included in the Entartete Kunst exhibition are now considered masters of the Twentieth Century. The Nazi Regime had a direct influence on the private and public life of many of those artist.

Molti degli artisti inclusi nella mostra Entartete Kunst sono attualmente considerati fra i più grandi Maestri del Ventesimo Secolo.
Il regime nazista ebbe un'influenza diretta sulla vita privata e pubblica di molti di questi artisti.



Here are some example.

Ecco qualche esempio.

Paul Klee is ranked as one of the most original masters of contemporary art. He was born in Bern, Switzerland and lived for many years in Germany. He was one of the instructors at the Bauhaus. In 1931 he began teaching at Dusseldorf Academy, but he was dismissed by the Nazis, who termed his work "degenerate." In 1933, Klee went back to his native Switzerland. He died on June 29, 1940.



Paul Klee è considerato come uno dei Maestri più originali dell'arte contemporanea. Era nato a Berna, Svizzera, ma visse per molti anni in Germania. Era professore incaricato alla Bauhaus. Nel 1931 aveva iniziato una nuova docenza all'Accademia di Dussendorf ma, alla presa del potere da parte di Hitler, fu licenziato dai nazisti che avevano classificato la sua arte come "degenerata". Nel 1933, appena perse la cattedra, Klee ritornò in Svizzera. Morì il 29 giugno 1940.



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During World War I Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a volunteer in the army, but he could not stand the discipline and constant subordination. He suffered a nervous breakdown and was moved to a sanatorium, where he became dependent on Veronal (sleeping pills), morphine and alcohol. The addictions did not hinder him from painting. He slowly recovered, and worked on paintings and woodcuts. His art was exhibited in Switzerland and Germany. The Germans banned his work, and he became increasingly depressed. On June 15, 1938, he took his own life.



Durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale Ernst Ludwig Kirchner si arruolò come volontario nell'esercito tedesco, ma scoprì di non poter sopportare la disciplina e la costante subordinazione. Cadde in un profondo esaurimento nervoso e fu trasferito in un sanatorio. Qui iniziò ad assumere morfina e Veronal (potente psicofarmaco), inoltre acquistò anche un'abitudine all'alcool cui non sarebbe più riuscito a sottrarsi per tutta la vita. L'alcolismo e la tossicomania non fermarono il suo istinto creativo. La sua produzione artistica continuò ininterrottamente fino alla metà degli anni 30. In questo periodo Kirchner si risollevò lentamente dalla dipendenza da oppiacei, continuando a produrre quadri e sculture in legno. Le sue opere furono esposte nelle più importanti Gallerie Svizzere e Tedesche. Quando in Germania i suoi lavori vennero messi al bando Kirchner cadde in una profonda depressione. Il 15 giugno 1938 si tolse la vita.



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Emile Nolde was an expressionist painter and graphic artist known for his religious works. His distortion and violent use of color attracted the attention of Die Brücke resulting in an invitation in 1906 to join the group. Nolde's temperament was not suited for collective work and he left Die Brücke in 1907 after learning the technique of woodcut. Nolde was able to remain in Germany during the Nazi regime, but over one thousand of his works were confiscated.



Emile Nolde era un pittore espressionista ma anche un artista grafico molto conosciuto all'inizio del secolo per le sue opere a tema religioso. Il suo uso violento e distorto del colore attirò l'attenzione dei più grandi artisti d'avanguardia dell'epoca, molti dei quali si erano organizzati in Collettivi Artistici, che lo invitarono nel 1906 ad unirsi ad alcuni di questi gruppi. Il temperamento di Nolde non era però adatto al lavoro collettivo e lasciò queste organizzazioni nel 1907, dopo aver imparato le tecniche di scultura del legno. Nolde riuscì a rimanere in Germania durante il regime nazista, ma oltre mille delle sue opere furono confiscate.



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Max Beckman was influenced by Edvard Munch. Beckman served in the medical corps during World War I, an experience that led to extreme pessimism in his artwork. Many of his paintings were sold by the Third Reich after the Entartete Kunst exhibition. Beckman was able to escape to Amsterdam and then eventually made his way to the United States.



L'arte di Max Beckman fu molto influenzata dai quadri di Edvard Munch. Beckman aveva fatto parte del Corpo di Sanità Militare durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale, un'esperienza che lo condusse ad un estremo pessimismo, riconoscibile in tutte le sue opere. Molti dei suoi quadri vennero venduti dal Terzo Reich dopo la chiusura della mostra Entartete Kunst. Beckman, con una fuga avventurosa, si rifugiò ad Amsterdam e da lì riuscì poi a trasferirsi negli Stati Uniti.



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Otto Dix was another expressionist painter whose work was influenced by the experience of World War I. He was appointed professor at the Dresden State Academy, but was dismissed in 1933 when the Nazis came to power. Two hundred sixty of Dix's paintings were removed from German museums in 1937. Many of these were burnt on Goebbels's order. Dix survived on a remote farm until 1945 when he was drafted by the Nazis and then captured by the French and made a prisoner of war. After the war, Dix returned to teaching.



Otto Dix è stato un altro pittore espressionista le cui opere furono profondamente influenzate dall'esperienza della Prima Guerra Mondiale. Fu nominato professore all'Accademia di Stato di Dresda, ma venne licenziato nel 1933 quando i nazisti presero il potere. Duecentosessanta quadri di Dix furono rimossi dai musei tedeschi nel 1937. Molti di questi furono bruciati per ordine di Goebbels. Dix sopravvisse in una remota fattoria nella campagna francese fino all'inizio del 1945, quando fu scoperto dai nazisti e successivamente catturato dai francesi, che lo internarono per qualche mese come prigioniero di guerra. Dopo il conflitto Dix ritornò all'insegnamento.



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Not every artist considered by the Nazis to be "degenerate" was included in the Entartete Kunst exhibit. One such artist was Käthe Kollwitz whose paintings, drawings, and sculptures were commentaries on social conditions. She was much loved by the German people, with streets and parks being named after her. Käthe Kollwitz became the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Art in Berlin. But because her work was critical of the Nazism, she became persona non grata. She was expelled from the academy in 1933.
Kollwitz believed that art should reflect social conditions in one's time. The Nazis forbade her work to be displayed, and banished her sculpture from the cellar of the Crown Prince Palace, declaring "In the Third Reich mothers have no need to defend their children. The State does that".
An enlarged version of Käthe Kollwitz's Mother with Dead Son was done by Harald Haake and stands in the middle of the Neue Wache in Berlin.



Non tutti gli artisti che erano considerati "degenerati" dai nazisti furono inclusi nella mostra Entartete Kunst. Uno di questi artisti era Käthe Kollwitz i cui quadri, disegni e sculture erano ispirate alle condizioni sociali del popolo tedesco. Era talmente amata dai tedeschi da avere strade e parchi a lei dedicati. Käthe Kollwitz divenne la prima donna eletta fra i membri della Accademia Prussiana delle Arti di Berlino. A causa delle sue opere, che diventavano col tempo sempre più critiche verso il regime nazista, Käthe Kollwitz venne dichiarata "persona non grata". Venne espulsa dall'Accademia nel 1933.
La Kollwitz credeva fermamente che l'Arte debba riflettere le particolari condizioni sociali del tempo in cui uno vive. I nazisti proibirono l'esibizione pubblica dei suoi lavori e tolsero la sua scultura dal Palazzo del Principe della Corona dichiarando: "...nel Terzo Reich le madri non hanno nessun bisogno di difendere i loro bambini. Lo fà lo Stato!".
Una versione ingrandita della scultura di Käthe Kollwitz "Madre con Figlio Morto" é stata eseguita da Harald Haake ed é attualmente collocata al centro della Neue Wache a Berlino.



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Paul Fuhrmann's Kriegsgewinnler (War Profiteer), an oil painting from 1932 was a clear statement against the rising regime-art. Two of Fuhrmann's works were included in the Entartete Kunst exhibition.



Un particolare dipinto ad olio, Kriegsgewinnler (Approfittatore di Guerra), eseguito nel 1932 da Paul Fuhrmann era una chiara presa di posizione contro la crescente "arte di regime". Due fra le opere di Fuhrmann furono incluse nella mostra Entartete Kunst.



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Julius (Julo) Levin was considered a degenerate artist by the Nazis. He was arrested and died in Auschwitz.



Anche Julius (Julo) Levin fu considerato un "Artista Degenerato" dai nazisti. Venne arrestato e morì ad Auschwitz.



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Fortunately, many prominent artists were able to escape German-controlled Europe thanks to Varian Fry.

Fortunatamente molti importanti artisti furono in grado di fuggire dall'Europa controllata dai tedeschi grazie a Varian Fry.



Fry was an American who went to France on behalf of the Emergency Rescue Committee with the mission of rescuing artists, writers, academics, and others at risk. Fry and his co-workers were able to rescue 4,000 at-risk persons including artists Max Ernst and Marc Chagall.
The Emergency Rescue Committee (now known as the International RescueCommittee) still provides relief, protection, and resettlement services for refugees and victims of oppression or violent conflict.

Fry era un americano che si trasferì in Francia su incarico dell'Emergency Rescue Committee, con la missione di mettere in salvo artisti, scrittori, accademici ed altre persone che rischiavano di essere arrestate o uccise dai nazisti. Fry ed i suoi collaboratori furono in grado di salvare oltre quattromila persone considerate ad alto rischio, come ad esempio i pittori Max Ernst e Marc Chagall. L'Emergency Rescue Committee (conosciuto attualmente come International Rescue Committee) ancor oggi assicura supporto, protezione ed assistenza per il trasferimento all'estero a rifugiati e vittime di oppressione o di conflitti.



If you want to know more about the Entartete Kunst exibit there is a great thesis, 57 pages in pdf format, courtesy of Maren Laurel Read from the University of North Carolina at Capel Hill.
Click on the picture below to download it.

Per chi volesse saperne di più sulla mostra Entartete Kunst, c'è un'esauriente, ottima tesi (direi da 110 e lode!) di 57 pagine, in formato pdf, redatta da Maren Laurel Read, della University of North Carolina (naturalmente... in Inglese!).
Ringraziamo l'amica dr.ssa Maren Laurel Read e la University of North Carolina per questa importante risorsa.
Cliccare sull'immagine qui sotto per scaricare il documento.




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Part of a Goebbels' 1937 speech on Art in Nazi Germany. English subtitles.

Breve estratto da un discorso di Goebbels del 1937 sulla condizione dell'Arte e degli Artisti nella Germania nazista. Sottotitoli in Inglese.


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Slide-show of images from the 1937 German exibition Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art).

Sequenza di immagini dalla mostra tedesca del 1937 Entartete Kunst (Arte Degenerata).


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This extremely rare amateur movie, filmed in Munchen by an unknown American tourist in 1937, may be the only unofficial document related to the German exibition Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art).

Rarissimo filmato amatoriale girato da uno sconosciuto turista americano a Monaco di Baviera. Riprese dell'ingresso e delle sale, con primi piani di alcune opere esposte all'interno della mostra tedesca del 1937 Entartete Kunst (Arte Degenerata). Potrebbe essere l'unica documentazione filmata non ufficiale esistente della mostra.


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Short sequence from a 1937 German film on the exibition Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art).

Brevissima sequenza da un documentario tedesco del 1937 sulla mostra Entartete Kunst (Arte Degenerata).


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A short look at the life and artworks of Julius (Julo) Levin, almost completely forgotten German Jewish Painter. Deported at Auschwitz he began to teach painting to Jewish children prisoners in the same lager. Julo Levin was later murdered in Auschwitz by the Nazis. German language version.

Un breve sguardo alla vita e alle opere di Julius (Julo) Levin, pittore ebreo tedesco praticamente dimenticato. Deportato ad Auschwitz cominciò ad insegnare la pittura ai bambini ebrei compagni di internamento. Fu in seguito assassinato dai nazisti nello stesso lager. Commento in tedesco.


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Original propaganda documentary on the Nazi artist Arno Breker.

Filmato di propaganda tedesco sull'artista di regime Arno Breker.


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Original propaganda documentary on the Nazi artist Josef Thorak.

Filmato di propaganda tedesco sull'artista di regime Josef Thorak.


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Eva Braun private family amateur footage from circa 1937.

Filmato amatoriale privato di Eva Braun.




SWINGIN' ...with Dr. Goebbels

In the 1930s the Nazis had a love/hate relationship with Swing music. They outlawed it on their homefront, throwing it into  the category of "degenerate" art, but at the same time, they employed it in the service of the Fatherland. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, assembled a fairly competent Swing band called Charlie and His Orchestra to perform Nazified versions of the Jazz hits of the day.
Led by an English speaking German, Karl Schwendler, Charlie and His Orchestra broadcast on the medium-wave and short-wave bands, throughout the 1930s and the early 40ies, to Canada, the US and Britain.

Negli anni 30 i nazisti ebbero un rapporto di amore-odio con la musica Swing. La misero fuorilegge in patria, relegandola fra l'arte "degenerata", ma nello stesso tempo la usarono al servizio della "causa". Il ministro della propaganda di Hitler, Paul Joseph Goebbels, mise assieme una band di ottimi musicisti Swing, chiamata Charlie and His Orchestra, per eseguire versioni "nazificate" dei principali successi Jazz del momento.
Diretta da un tedesco che parlava perfettamente l'Inglese, Karl Schwendler, Charlie and His Orchestra incise circa una cinquantina di brani, che continò ad eseguire dal vivo dagli studi della Deutsche Rundfunk, e che vennero irradiati sulle onde medie e corte dal 1936 ai primi anni 40, in programmi musicali destinati al Canada, agli USA e all'Inghilterra.



The idea was to lure the masses in with the irrestible tonic of Swing music and then slyly work in the anti-Jewish, American and British lyrics after the second or third verse.
The broadcasts of Charlie and His Orchestra were not available in the Fatherland proper, but that only enhanced their legend, and they picked up an underground following in Germany as well.

L'idea era di attrarre e indottrinare le masse di ascoltatori con l'irresistibile verve della musica Swing, inserendo testi modificati dopo il secondo o il terzo verso.
Le trasmissioni di Charlie and His Orchestra non erano ricevibili dal pubblico tedesco, ma questo non fece altro che contribuire alla leggenda della band, che cominciò ad avere un vasto seguito "sommerso" di ammiratori anche in Germania.



Here are 3 samples of lyrics from songs performed by Charlie and His Orchestra:

Ecco 3 esempi delle liriche di brani interpretati da Charlie and His Orchestra:

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You're Driving Me Crazy

Here is Winston Churchill's latest tearjerker:
Yes, the Germans are driving me crazy.
I though I had brains, but they shattered my planes.
They've built up a front against me, it's quite amazing
Clouding the skies, with their planes.
The Jews are the friends who are near me to cheer me, believe me they do.
But Jews are the kind that will hurt me, desert me and laugh at me too.
Yes, the Germans are driving me crazy,
my last chance I'll pray, to get in this muddle the U.S.A.
This new pact also is driving me crazy, Germany, Italy, Japan, it gives me a pain.
I'm losing my nerve, I'm getting lazy
A prisoner forced to remain in England to reign.
The Jews are the friends who are near me, that still cheer me, believe me they do.
But Jews are not the kind of heroes who would fight for me, now they're leaving me too.
Yes, the Germans are driving me crazy, by Jove, I pray, come in U.S.A.

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F.D.R Jones

It's a Hebrew holiday everywhere,
All the Jewish family has a brand new heir,
He's their joy heaven sent,
And they proudly present,
Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones,
He's grown up, but I'm afraid he will stray,
With a name like the one he's got today,
He sends the boys to Iceland's shore, to engage in foreign wars,
Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones,
Non-intervention, how he shows it,
His decision to send troops along,
Oh what a jam and I bet he knows it,
But the folks in the world all agree,
He's aggressive, aggressive as he can be,
If he could he'd like to be, known to those in history,
As the big Emperor D. Roosevelt Jones.

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Who's Afraid Of the Big Bad Wolf

Listen to the BBC, BBC, BBC,
Listen to the BBC, tra-la-la-la,
Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy?
Who wants to make free people free? tra-la-la-la
First they won the war in France,
Then they said they no chance,
Each time the Germans did advance,
How could they have a chance?

They told stories so divine,
Oft'n marched across the Rhine,
Germans eat only rats and mice,
But in England all was fine,
Bye-Bye Churchill, BBC, BBC, BBC
Your tricks won't work with Italy, tra-la-la-la,
Why not give us different news, different news, different news,
Skip those Soviets, skip those Jews, tra-la-la-la.

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The notion of this material having its desired effect seems ludicrous in retrospect, but imagine yourself an East Coast resident of the United States during a period when victory over the Nazis was not assured. As you scan the radio dial aware that German U-boats may be trolling the seas miles away from your home, you come across the song "Submarines."  If the desired effect was to crush morale and instill fear, these songs probably worked great. As recruitment tools for the Nazi party, Charles Lindbergh probably did a better job.

Il concetto che questo materiale potesse ottenere l'effetto voluto da Goebbels oggi può sembrare ridicolo, ma... bisognerebbe provare a calarsi nei panni di un residente della East Coast degli Stati Uniti, durante un periodo in cui la vittoria sui nazisti non era affatto una cosa certa. Mentre questi americani sintonizzavano la radio, con la sottile paranoia che gli U-boot tedeschi potessero attraversare l'oceano per raggiungere le spiagge di fronte a casa, ricevevano una canzone come "Submarines"! Se, dopo l'inizio della guerra, gli effetti desiderati erano anche quelli di instillare la paura e di abbassare il morale del nemico, forse queste trasmissioni almeno in parte funzionarono. Per stimolare invece il cittadino americano medio degli anni del New-Deal ad un'immediata iscrizione al partito nazista... probabilmente Charles Lindberg svolse un lavoro migliore!



In some sense, the point of Jazz is to inspire a visceral reaction, an unfiltered, direct emotion. Never was this more true than during the 20ies and the 30ies, when Jazz was young, new, and shockingly unconventional.

In un certo senso, la vera forza del Jazz è quella di ispirare nell'ascoltatore una reazione viscerale, una emozione diretta e non filtrata che spesso induce a seguire il ritmo con il corpo, a danzare in modo disinibito e scatenato. Questo poi non fu mai così vero come durante gli anni dal 1920 al 1940, quando il Jazz era giovane e dirompentemente anticonvenzionale.



This American music was outrageously popular not just in the United States, but also in other parts of the world—including places where English was not the primary language. In the 1930s and 1940s, German residents were just as enamored of Jazz as everyone else, but Nazi leaders saw it as much more than mere entertainment: they saw it as a threat. For one thing, the Nazis felt that Jazz lyrics encouraged a level of sexual permissiveness that was at odds with the standards they set. But more deeply, Jazz represented the enemy—both literally, in the sense of its being American, and figuratively in the sense that its African roots made it racially degenerate, an offense to Aryan purity. To enjoy Jazz music was to thumb your nose at the Nazi cause. There were also those who claimed that American Jews were behind the whole Jazz movement, and the Nazi anti-Semitic rage only added to their distrust of Jazz.

Questa musica tipicamente americana era incredibilmente popolare non solo negli States ma anche in altre parti del mondo, dove l'Inglese non era certo il linguaggio principale. Negli anni che vanno dal 1930 ai primi 40 i tedeschi erano stati conquistati dal Jazz proprio come tutti gli altri, ma i leader nazisti non riuscivano a vederlo come una semplice forma di intrattenimento: lo percepivano come una minaccia. Per prima cosa i nazisti sentivano che i testi dei brani Jazz incoraggiavano un livello di permissività sessuale che si scontrava con lo stile di vita che volevano imporre al popolo tedesco. La cosa peggiore però era che il Jazz rappresentava letteralmente il nemico. Il fatto di essere un prodotto americano e perdipiù con chiare radici afro, lo rendevano razzialmente degenerato, un'offesa alla purezza ariana. Godersi la musica Jazz equivaleva a storcere il naso di fronte ai princìpi nazisti. C'erano poi anche dei tedeschi convinti che dietro a tutto il movimento Jazz vi fosse un complotto degli ebrei americani per "destabilizzare" l'integrità morale dell'Europa! La campagna propagandistica di odio razziale che montò dopo l'avvento al potere di Hitler, sortì l'effetto di fare aumentare in tutto il Reich, almeno ufficialmente, il disprezzo per il Jazz.



Hitler’s government tried repeatedly and in various ways (though with mixed success) to outlaw Jazz. Playing, listening to, or owning recordings of Jazz music was made illegal—and that included listening to Jazz from abroad on a shortwave radio. The very worst form of Jazz, from the Nazi perspective, was Swing, which was especially popular among young people. German youth frequently used Swing music and dancing as their outlet for rebellion—in this case, rebellion against the Nazi values in general and the Hitler Youth in particular. Many of the young people who were caught at covert Swing parties were sent to concentration camps. But, of course, every attempt to wipe out Swing just galvanized its fans further. The surest way to make something desirable, after all, is to forbid it...

Il governo di Hitler tentò ripetutamente e in vari modi (e con alterne fortune...) di mettere fuorilegge il Jazz. Suonare, ascoltare o possedere dischi Jazz divenne illegale (e questo valeva anche per chi ascoltava trasmissioni radiofoniche dall'estero su ricevitori a onde corte). La peggiore e più pericolosa forma di Jazz, secondo la prospettiva nazista, era lo Swing, particolarmente popolare presso i giovani. La gioventù tedesca dell'epoca usava frequentemente lo Swing per ballare e la danza era il loro passaporto per la "ribellione" (in questo caso ribellione contro i valori nazisti in generale e contro la Hitler-Jugend in particolare). Molti dei giovani sorpresi a frequentare feste da ballo Swing clandestine venivano rinchiusi in campi di concentramento. Naturalmente ogni tentativo dei nazisti di cancellare lo Swing galvanizzava ulteriormente i suoi giovani fans. Anche oggi, del resto, sappiamo che la maniera più sicura per rendere desiderabile una cosa è proibirne l'uso...



Of course, while making the music of Charlie and His Orchestra freely available overseas, the Nazis did their best to keep it from the German public. Despite the pro-Nazi lyrics, the government could not be seen promoting a form of music it had gone out of its way to repudiate. So although all Swing music was forbidden to Germans, the music of Charlie and His Orchestra was the most forbidden, with extremely severe penalties for those caught listening. Naturally, this increased the band’s popularity within Germany.

Mentre rendevano disponibile oltreoceano la musica di Charlie and His Orchestra, i nazisti facevano, ovviamente, di tutto per nasconderla al pubblico tedesco. Nonostante le liriche pro-nazi, il governo non poteva apparire come il promotore di una forma musicale che aveva totalmente ripudiato. Così, mentre tutta la musica Swing era proibita in Germania, quella di Charlie and His Orchestra era la più proibita in assoluto, con pene pesantissime per chi fosse stato sorpreso ad ascoltarla. Naturalmente questo fece aumentare a dismisura la popolarità della band in patria.



The band members themselves, curiously enough, were not particularly sympathetic to the Nazi cause. Karl "Charlie" Schwedler may have been in it for the money, and some of the band members, who spoke little English, would later say they did not even realize what the lyrics said. But playing in the band paid well and exempted the members from military service. More importantly, it may have saved the lives of some members. Drummer Fritz Brocksieper, for example, had a Jewish grandmother, and so would have been considered Jewish according to Nazi reckoning...

Curiosamente, i musicisti di Charlie and His Orchestra non provavano alcuna particolare simpatia per la causa nazista. Karl "Charlie" Schwedler probabilmente cantava e dirigeva solo per i soldi. Gli altri membri della band, che in realtà capivano pochissimo l'Inglese, dichiararono in seguito di non conoscere affatto il significato delle liriche. Erano molto ben pagati, e il fatto di suonare per il dottor Goebbels comportava l'esenzione dal servizio militare, il che senz'altro può aver contribuito a salvare letteralmente la vita ai componenti dell'orchestra. Il batterista Fritz Brocksieper, ad esempio, aveva una nonna ebrea, quindi in teoria avrebbe dovuto essere considerato un ebreo secondo la legge tedesca dell'epoca...


Fritz Brocksieper

Also curious is the fact that the group developed a significant following among Americans who were exposed to their music. This either says a lot for their music or very little for their lyrics—but in any case, the propaganda was clearly ineffective.
The individual members of Charlie and His Orchestra went on to successful careers in music after the war, their unique songs all but forgotten once the authentic originals were again in free circulation. All in all, not a bad gig for a bunch of musicians who found themselves on the wrong side of a war...

Un'altra curiosità per finire: a prescindere dai testi modificati dei brani eseguiti, la band ottenne un seguito significativo fra gli americani che erano "esposti" alla sua musica. Questo la dice lunga sulla bravura e professionalità dei musicisti assoldati da Paul Joseph Goebbels che, anche per questo motivo, nel 1944 dovette ammettere che l'intera campagna propagandistica da lui ideata... a ritmo di Swing si era rivelata totalmente inefficace.
I componenti dell'orchestra proseguirono dopo il conflitto con grande successo le rispettive carriere... il che non è affatto male per un gruppo di musicisti che si trovò a "combattere" nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale, sia pure in modo tranquillo, dalla parte sbagliata.



You can download a sample mp3 of Charlie and His Orchestra (4 MB), "Submarines", clicking on the image below.

Puoi scaricare un brano di esempio, "Submarines", di Charlie and His Orchestra in formato mp3 (4 MB) cliccando sull'immagine qui sotto



Those rare original tracks of Charlie and His Orchestra, digitalized as mp3 in top audio quality are included, free of charge, in the DVD with the video(s) you'll order from this Collection:

Questi rari brani originali, eseguiti da Charlie and His Orchestra, digitalizzati in mp3 nella massima qualità audio possibile, sono inclusi gratuitamente nel DVD con i video di questa Collezione che ordinerai (anche se si tratta di un singolo video!).

01 - Nice People
02 - Thanks For The Memory
03 - Indian Love Call
04 - The Sheik Of Araby
05 - Lets Put Out The Lights
06 - Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
07 - Lilli Marleen
08 - Elmers Tune
09 - Picture Me Without You
10 - I Double Dare You
11 - Macpherson Is Rehearsin
12 - I Cant Give You Anything But Love
13 - Daisy
14 - Stardust
15 - Submarines
16 - United Air Man
17 - I Got Rhythm
18 - And So Another Lovely Day Is Over
19 - Roll On The Blue Funnel
20 - Under An Umbrella In The Evening
21 - Calling Invasion Forces
22 - Atlantic Wall (Incomplete)
23 - You're Driving Me Crazy 
24 - You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming
25 - Saint Louis Blues 
26 - Slumming On Park Avenue
27 - Dinah 
28 - Daisy 
29 - FDR Jones
30 - Who'll Buy My Bublitchky 
31 - I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
32 - The King's Horses 
33 - I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams
34 - Three Little Fishes
35 - Why'd Ya Make Me Fall In Love?
36 - Miss Annabelle Lee 
37 - South of the Border
38 - Hold Tight 
39 - The Man With The Big Cigar
40 - I'm Sending You The Siegfried Line 
41 - Bye Bye Blackbird
42 - Japanese Sandman 
43 - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
44 - Untern Linden



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Berlin - Reichshauptstadt 1936 (1936)

Nazi propaganda complete color film from 1936. An outstanding portrait of everyday life in Berlin in this rare, well preserved film, with the magical feeling of the pastel colors of Agfachrome.
Original soundtrack. No subtitles.

Film completo. La propaganda nazista presenta Berlino, nell'anno in cui ospita quelle che sarebbero passate alla storia come le ultime Olimpiadi prima dell'interruzione bellica.
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1937Germany-NazyRally.mp4
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1937: Big Nazi rally for the 1st of May.

Il grande raduno nazista del Primo Maggio nel 1937.


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Late 1930ies. Himmler's visionary dream. Forgotten Nazi expeditions and explorations.

Fine anni 30 del secolo scorso. Il sogno visionario di Himmler. Le spedizioni e le esplorazioni naziste dimenticate.
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Hindenburg Explodes (1937)

Footage from Castle and Pathé coverage of the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst. Also shots of the big ships over New York.

Cinegiornale muto sulla tragedia dell'Hindenburg che utilizza sequenze del repertorio Castle e Pathè. Bellissime riprese dell'enorme dirigibile in volo sopra i grattacieli di New York.


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1937-05-10 Special Release: Zeppelin Explodes Scores Dead (1937)
Production Company: Universal Studios

"Lakehurst, NJ: Thirty-five persons die and scores of others are injured as the mighty dirigible explodes three hundred feet over the landing field at the end of her first voyage of the season from Europe. A terrific burst of flame engulfs the stern of the ship and spreads with the rapidity of lightning to the bow. The inferno of blazing hydrogen gas cremates all living beings in its path, as the twisted skeleton of the balloon settles quickly to the ground. Rescue crews brave death to save sixty-three persons, some of them horribly burned." Scenes of the Hindenburg burning with narration.

Le crude riprese dell'idrogeno in fiamme che stà cremando vivi i passeggeri dell'Hindenburg sono rese ancora più drammatiche dal commento del cronista. Un raro documento che entra impietosamente nei particolari del disastro.


1937-05-10TheHindenburg-HerbMorrison.mp4
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1937-05-10 The Hindenburg burning: newsreel and WLS-Chicago broadcasting with Herb Morrison report.

La tragedia dell'Hindenburg narrata in diretta dal celebre Herb Morrison, nella sua famosa trasmissione radiofonica.


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1937-05-10 The Hindenburg burning: unidentified color newsreel excerpt.

La tragedia dell'Hindenburg filmata a colori in questo estratto da un cinegiornale.
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1937-05-10TheHindenburg-New.mp4
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The Hindenburg. New outstanding color footage.

L'Hindenburg filmato a colori.
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1938HitlerVisitsHisSchool.mp4
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1938. Right after the Annexion, Hitler visits with affection his childhood school at Braunau am Inn in northern Austria.

1938 Subito dopo l'Annessione, Hitler visita la scuola che frequentava da bambino a Braunau in Austria.
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Nuremberg, 1938. Amateur film fragment. Nazi Party congress at the Zeppelin Arena.

Raduno del partito nazista a Norimberga nel 1938. Filmato amatoriale.
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German WW2 color footage. Eva Braun amateur film. Italy's foreign minister Count Ciano at Berchtesgaden, with shots of Himmler and other SS.

Sequenze a colori girate da Eva Braun nel 1938. Galeazzo Ciano in visita a Berchtesgaden, con inquadrature di Himmler e altri ufficiali delle SS.


1938GermanAutobahnInauguration.mp4
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Adolf Hitler inaugurating the last part of the completed German Highway. Fragment. Original soundtrack.

1938. Adolf Hitler inaugura l'ultimo tratto delle appena ultimate autostrade tedesche. Frammento con sonoro originale.
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1937-NaziChristmas.mov
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Christmas 1937 in Nazi Germany.

Il natale del 1937 nella Germania nazista.


1938circa-SegefliegerWasserkuppe.mov
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Segelflieger auf der Wasserkuppe (circa 1938)
Produced by: Reichsanstalt fur Film und Bild (RWU)
Directed by: Walter Frentz.

Outstanding challenge for Hitler Youth glider pilots.

Scuola di pilotaggio per alianti della Hitlerjugend.


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Wildwasser (circa 1938)
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Hitler Youth boys and girls canoeing in a wild mountain river.

Ragazze e ragazzi della Hitlerjugend a scuola di canoa.


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Somme Wind und Segel (circa 1938)
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Yacht School for Hitler Youth girls.

Scuola di yacht per ragazze della Hitlerjugend.


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Nuremberg, 1938. Amateur film fragment. Nazi Party congress at the Zeppelin Arena.

Norimberga, 1938. Filmato amatoriale sul raduno nazista alla Zeppelin Arena.
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Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker (1938)
Producer: Universum Film (UfA)

The first part of the revolutionary Leni Riefensthal's movie about the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.

La prima parte del rivoluzionario film di Leni Riefensthal sulle Olimpiadi di Berlino del 1936.



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Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit (1938)
Producer: Universum Film (UfA)

The second part of the revolutionary Leni Riefensthal's movie about the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.

La seconda parte del rivoluzionario film di Leni Riefensthal sulle Olimpiadi di Berlino del 1936.




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Wort und Tat (1938)

Produced By: Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)
Directed By: Fritz Hippler, Ottoheinz Jahn, Gustav Ucicky and Eugen York

The film is notable for the extensive use of montage to get its message across, in a style reminiscent of Sergei Eisensteins "Oktober".
The film begins with a montage of clips from the Weimar period, showing a series of clips of Labor and Communist rallies, interspersed with scenes of scantily clad cabaret girls, and then shots of the posters of the different Weimar era political parties. this illustrates the "chaos" and "decadence" of the Weimar period. This sequence ends with former chancellor Heinrich Brüning making a speech against National Socialism.
The film then goes into a series of sequences showing how Nazi rule has "improved" various aspects of German life:
(in approximate order)
▪ Agricultural production (with scenes of the Reich Labor Service at work)
▪ Improvement of youth (Hitler Youth scenes)
▪ Coal production
▪ Autobahn construction
▪ The Winter health Campaign
▪ Steel production
▪ Factories being built
Then the film shifts to a scene of Mussolini praising the German development (in German), and various shots of the SS marching and the Luftwaffe flying in formation (which seems to have been lifted from Tag der Freiheit).

La lezione dadaista di Richter e Ruttmann è stata recepita da questo gruppo di registi che hanno fatto un ampio uso del montaggio in un mero stile "Eisenstein". Il cortometraggio tratta della conquiste sociali dei primi 5 anni di regime nazista.



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Nice looking 2 reels amateur 1938 film that details a couple of American friends' journey to Europe. From the amazing departure in New York on ship, to visiting Gibraltar, Nice, Switzerland, and Germany.
Some shots of Nazi Germany (in its fifth year) is shown, especially at the end of part 2, when the film goes into color.

Film amatoriale in due bobine girato nel 1938 da una coppia di giovanotti americani. Documenta la loro vacanza in un'Europa idilliaca che sembra completamente ignara del... temporale che si stà avvicinando! Le sequenze finali della seconda parte sono a colori.
La parte girata in Germania mostra candide scene di un nazismo con un look ancora quasi innocuo e folkloristico, fatto di bande militari e soldati che marciano in piccole parate per le strade, fra capannelli di gente divertita...


1938TheFuhrerIsBackHome-Col-snd.mov
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09-28-1938. HItler arrives at the Berghof with an Italian delegation leaded by Count Ciano. The Fuhrer partecipates in a "spontaneous way" to what seems to be a funny joke about Goering told by Bruckner, Eva Braun's bodyguard. Bruckner says:"Haben sie denn Herr Goring tanzen gesehen, mein Fuhrer?", "Have you seen Herr Goering dancing, my Fuhrer?". Hitler reacts impersonating the way the rather heavy minister Goering danced. (This finally explains what was behind the "Dancing Hitler" or "Hitler Dance" clip, that's on line pratically since the Internet exist!!!). Then he changes uniform, meets his segretaries and friends and gives orders to various SS officers, Surprisingly, (maybe a Galeazzo Ciano's idea...) they listen to radio-news in English from the BBC!
Eva Braun private color amateur footage from September, 28 1938 filmed at the Berghof, near Berchtesgaden. Original captured soundtrack with the voices of Hitler and others.

Flmato amatoriale con il sonoro in presa diretta e a colori di Eva Braun, girato al Berghof, nei pressi di Berchtesgaden il 28 Settembre 1938. Rarissimo documento completo di sonoro originale, con le voci di Hitler ed altri.
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Ernst Schäfer - Geheimnis Tibet (Secret Tibet) (1938-39)
Eine Produktion der UFA über eine deutsche Tibet-Expedition

In 1938 Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler sponsored an expedition to Tibet lead by Ernst Schäfer and composed by several other Nazi SS scientists, officially to study the region's flora and fauna and to take scientific measurements of the Earths magnetic fields. The expedition was also sent to find traces of the origins of the "Aryan" race in Tibet which was where Himmler thought evidence of could be found. As a follower of the Hollow Heart theory, Himmler was also looking in Tibet for the "doors to Agharty", the mythical underground town, home of the "Unknown Masters". This film is a Nazi era documentary of that expedition.
Ernst Schäfer (1910-1992) was a famous German hunter and zoologist in the 1930s, specializing in ornithology.
He is most famous for his three expeditions to Tibet in 1931, 1934-1935, and 1938-1939, the first two led by the American Brooke Dolan II, and the third led by himself under the patronage of Himmler's Ahnenerbe organization.
In July 1934, during his second expedition in Asia, he met the then exiled Panchen Lama, Thubten Chökyi Nyima, in Hangzhou, China.
Schäfer joined the SS in 1933, but after World War II he claimed to have been an unwilling recruit into the organization, a step necessary to advance his career.
Schäfer wrote several books, including Berge, Buddhas und Bären (Mountains, Buddhas and Bears), and helped to produce this film.
Geheimnis Tibet was never released to the public in Nazi Germany but intended as a film for SS internal use only.

Il documentario girato da Ernst Schäfer nel 1938-39 sulla sua terza spedizione in Tibet.


1939-MussoliniInDeutschland-SondersendungDerFox-wochenschau.mov
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Mussolini in Deutschland - Sondersendung der Fox-Wochenschau (1939)
Producer: Universum Film (UfA)

Nazi propaganda film about the Legion Condor military mission in the Spanish Civil War.


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Deutsche Freiwillige in Spanien - Vom Kampf der Legion Condor (1939)
Production: Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)

Nazi propaganda film about the Legion Condor military mission in the Spanish Civil War.

Film di propaganda sull'intervento aereo della Legione Condor nella Guerra Civile Spagnola.


1939circa-EvaAndFamily-StarnbergerSee.mp4
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Eva Braun private family color amateur footage from circa 1939.

Materiale filmato amatoriale a colori di Eva Braun destinato ad uso privato.
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1939-Eva-Color-Berghof01.mp4
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Eva Braun private color amateur footage from 1939 filmed at the Berghof, near Berchtesgaden.

Montaggio di filmati amatoriali privati a colori di Eva Braun, girati al Berghof, nei pressi di Berchtesgaden nell'Estate 1939.


1939-Eva-Color-Berghof02.mp4
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Eva Braun private color amateur footage from 1939 filmed at the Berghof, near Berchtesgaden.

Montaggio di filmati amatoriali privati a colori di Eva Braun, girati al Berghof, nei pressi di Berchtesgaden nell'Estate 1939.


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Eva Braun private color amateur footage from Summer 1939 filmed at the Berghof, near Berchtesgaden.

Montaggio di filmati amatoriali privati a colori di Eva Braun, girati al Berghof, nei pressi di Berchtesgaden nell'Estate 1939.


1939-Eva-Color-Berghof-DEUTSCH03.mp4
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Eva Braun private color amateur footage from Summer 1939 filmed at the Berghof, near Berchtesgaden. Original soundtrack with the voices of Hitler, Goebbels, Speer and others. Extremely rare.

Flmato amatoriale con il sonoro in presa diretta e a colori di Eva Braun, girato al Berghof, nei pressi di Berchtesgaden nell'Estate 1939. Rarissimo documento completo di sonoro originale, con le voci di Hitler, Goebbels, Speer ed altri.
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1939Hand-GrenadeLaunchingChamp-c.mov
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Frankfurt, August 1939. A sport championship for members of the German police. Who will be the best hand-grenade launcher?!

Francoforte, Agosto 1939. Campionato di percorso di guerra e lancio di bombe a mano per poliziotti tedeschi.
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1939EvaBraunAtTheWaterfall-Col-Snd.mp4
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Eva Braun private color amateur footage from Summer 1939.

Flmato amatoriale di Eva Braun, dell'Estate 1939.
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1939. HItler at the Berghof with Von Ribbentrop, Speer and others, including his dog Blondie... barking really loud!
We can also see how SS guards can be excellent waiters... or even baby-sitters when needed!
Eva Braun private color amateur footage from late Spring 1939 filmed at the Berghof, near Berchtesgaden. Original captured soundtrack with the voices of Hitler and others.

Flmato amatoriale con il sonoro in presa diretta e a colori di Eva Braun, girato al Berghof, nei pressi di Berchtesgaden nella tarda Primavera del 1939. Rarissimo documento con le voci di Hitler ed altri e l'abbaiare della cagna del Fuhrer, Blondie.
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1939MomentsOfAHBirthday.mp4
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April 20, 1939. The Wermacht celebrating Hitler's 50th birthday.
Montage of amateur footage and official Nazi propaganda footage.

Berlino, 20 Aprile 1939. Montaggio di filmati amatoriali ed ufficiali su aspetti poco conosciuti dei festeggiamenti per il 50° compleanno di Hitler.






1940-1945 The Destroyers




1940TheEternalJew.wmv
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Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) (1940)
Production Company: Deutsche Filmherstellungs und Verwertungs GmbH, Berlin (DFG)

"The Eternal Jew" is probably the single source which in the clearest way demonstrates the hatred of Nazism towards the Jews. It shows in word, picture and sound exactly what it was, that Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels wanted the German public to associate with the word “Jew”. This film is an excellent and yet most shocking example of the way genocidal mentality can be created by means of "reality-like" media. The purpose of propaganda is to induce action. When human beings are compared to rats and vermin like in "The Eternal Jew", it seems obvious what must be done with these creatures...
Stills from the film, along with the narration, are available on this website:
http://www.holocaust-history.org/der-ewige-jude/stills.shtml

"Der Ewige Jude" è probabilmente il singolo documento che dimostra nel modo più semplice, chiaro ed inequivocabile la dimensione dell'odio nazista nei confronti degli ebrei. Il film è anche un lampante esempio di come la "mentalità del genocidio" possa essere creata da documenti che appaiono come "rappresentazioni della realtà". Se lo scopo principale della propaganda è quello di indurre i suoi destinatari all'azione, quando esseri umani vengono paragonati a dei ratti portatori di malattie e a dei parassiti, cosa fare di loro appare fin troppo ovvio...
Versione tedesca con sottotitoli in Inglese.
Fotogrammi dal film e brani tradotti del commento originale sono disponibili su questo sito:
http://www.holocaust-history.org/der-ewige-jude/stills.shtml


1940-05-10Die-Deutsche-Wochenschau.mpg
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German complete newsreel from 05-10-1940.
Goebbels' propaganda tries to show how happy are Europeans to be "gently invaded" by the Germans. Hitler's dream of a united Europe under the "New Order" seems to come true...

Cinegiornale tedesco completo del 10-05-1940.
La propaganda nazista tenta di mostrare le truppe tedesche accolte con affetto e doni spontanei dalle popolazioni dei Paesi occupati. Il sogno di Hitler di un'Europa unita sotto il segno della svastica sembra essere sul punto di divenire realtà...


1940JudSuess.mov
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Jud Süß (1940)
Production Company: Terra Filmkunst
Director: Veit Harlan

Notorious Nazi propaganda anti-Semitic film.

Altro famigerato film della propaganda antisemita nazista.


1940-07-08Die-Deutsche-Wochenschau.avi
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German complete newsreel from 07-08-1940.

Cinegiornale tedesco completo dell'otto Luglio 1940.


1940-07-18Die-Deutsche-Wochenschau.mp4
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German complete newsreel from 07-18-1940.

Cinegiornale tedesco completo del 18-07-1940.


1940-Die-Deutsche-Wochenschau.mp4
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German newsreel from 1940 (excerpt) about the invasion of Holland.

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del 1940 sull'invasione dell'Olanda.


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Kampf um Norwegen - Feldzug 1940 (1940)
Producer: Martin Rikli and Dr. Werner Buhre
Production Company: Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
Audio/Visual: sound, b/w
Language: German (no subtitles)

German complete propaganda documentary from 1940.
"Kampf um Norwegen - Feldzug 1940" (English: Battle for Norway - 1940 campaign) is a 81 minute-long German documentary directed by Martin Rikli and Dr. Werner Buhre by orders of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. Produced in 1940, the movie follows the Invasion of Denmark and Norway in the spring 1940. For unknown reasons, the film was never shown in Germany. It was considered lost in its entirety until it recently surfaced at an Internet auction.

Documentario di propaganda tedesco completo del 1940, lungo 81 minuti, sull'invasione della Danimarca e della Norvegia attuata dalla Wehrmacht nella Primavera 1940. Per ragioni sconosciute questo film non fu mai proiettato in Germania ed era considerato perduto nella sua interezza, quando è improvvisamente riemerso in una recente asta on line.


1940-SiegImWesten.mp4
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Sieg Im Westen (1940)
Production Company: Oberkommando der Heeres
German complete propaganda documentary from 1940 about German army invading Holland, Belgium and France.
Everything is uncut and original here, German soundtrack and English comment translating from German. No subtitles.

Documentario di propaganda tedesco completo del 1940.


1940-12-22die-deutsche-wochenschau.avi
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German complete newsreel from 12-22-1940.
15 months after the beginning of the war, German hospitals are plenty of wounded soldiers. The Nazis organize visits to the sanatoriums by German children, bringing presents and singing songs to support the soldiers moral. How many of those children are going to loose their lives in the future air raids over Germany, that are about to begin...?

Cinegiornale tedesco completo del 22-12-1940
A 15 mesi dall'inizio della guerra gli ospedali ed i centri di riabilitazione tedeschi pullulano di feriti. Il regime impone ai bambini tedeschi visite con canti e suoni per risollevare il morale dei soldati. Guardando questo cinegiornale viene da chiedersi quanti fra i bambini ripresi siano destinati a morire vittime dei bombardamenti aerei negli oltre 4 successivi anni di guerra...


1941AfricaKorps-wochen.mp4
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German newsreel from 1941 (excerpt) about Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps.

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del 1941 sull'Afrika Korps di Erwin Rommel.


1941AfricaKorps-wochenCOLOR.mp4
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Rare color German newsreel from 1941 (excerpt) about Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps.

Estratto da un raro cinegiornale tedesco a colori del 1941 sull'Afrika Korps di Erwin Rommel.
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1941Panzerlied.mp4
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German WW2 color footage.

Sequenze a colori girate dalla cinematografia tedesca nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale.


1941U-boots.mov
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German WW2 color footage.

Sequenze a colori girate dalla cinematografia tedesca nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale.
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1941Lied-der-Panzergrenadiere.mp4
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German WW2 color footage.

Sequenze a colori girate dalla cinematografia tedesca nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale.


1941GermanyAtWar-Vol1.mp4
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German Complete propaganda documentary from 1941.

Documentario di propaganda tedesco completo del 1941.


1941Russia-wochen-EnglishSubt.mp4
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German newsreel from 1941 (excerpt) about the attack on Russia.

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del 1941 sull'attacco alla Russia.


1941DieFrontschau-Vol4.mp4
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Die Frontschau-Vol.4 (1941)
Production: UfA

German complete propaganda documentary from 1941.

Documentario di propaganda tedesco completo del 1941.


1942-HelferinnenDerWehrmacht.mp4
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Helferinnen der Wehrmacht (1942)
Production: Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

German complete propaganda documentary from 1942 filmed in Greece.

Documentario di propaganda filmato nella Grecia occupata.


1942bombing-mission-over-malta.mp4
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Excerpt from a rare WW2 Italian color documentary. Italian and German air forces on a bombing mission over British Malta island, with scenes of air battle against RAF Spitfire interceptors. Original soundtrack. No subtitles.

Estratto da un raro documentario italiano di propaganda sulle missioni di bombardamento su Malta. Bombardieri tedeschi e caccia italiani che partivano dalle basi in Sicilia.
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19412DerGrosseKoenig.mp4
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Der Grosse Koenig (1942)

Produced By: Tobis Filmkunst
Directed by: Veit Haelan

Der Grosse Koenig was filmed at the behest of Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels and directed by Veidt Harlan, the man responsible for the anti-Semitic films, Jud Suss. Thus, it isn't surprising that the film utilizes the historical facts at its disposal to prime the pumps for the Third Reich. Playing the title role is Paul Wegener, who during the Hitler regime was named Actor of the State and who, like Harlan, compromised his talent on behalf of Der Fatherland. Der Grosse Koenig won the Venice Film Festival Award and the Mussolini prize, though odds are the contests were fixed. On the strength of Der Grosse Koening, Veidt Harlan in 1944-45 was assigned to direct the famous money-squandering propaganda picture Kolberg (also available in this Collection).

La storia di Federico il Grande. Film fortemente voluto da Goebbels, vinse il premio Mussolini al Festival del Cinema di Venezia.


1942FlyingFortress.mpg
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Mission accomplished: The Story of the Flying Fortress (1942)
Producer: U.S. Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures

Chronicles one of the early (August 1942) missions of B-17s over Germany.

Cronaca filmata di una delle prime missioni (Agosto 1942) dei B-17 sulla Germania.



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Combat America (1945 - Filmed in 1942)
Sponsor: U.S. Office of War Information
Producer: U.S. Army Air Forces

Four reels 62 minutes movie. Follows the Flying Fortress crews of the 351st Bombardment Group from the end of their training at a Colorado training field to real combat missions over Germany.

Film di 62 minuti in 4 bobine che segue gli equipaggi del 351esimo Gruppo Bombardieri dalla fine dell'addestramento sui campi d'aviazione del Colorado alle missioni di combattimento sulla Germania.


1942SuperCargoPlane-wochen.mp4
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German newsreel from 1942 (excerpt) about an outstanding super-plane.

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del 1942 su un super-aereo da trasporto.


1942WOCHEN-november.mp4
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German newsreel from November 1942 (excerpt).

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del Novembre1942.


1942WOCHEN-Xmas.mp4
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German newsreel from 1942 (excerpt) about the fourth Christmas of war.

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del 1942 sul quarto Natale della Germania in guerra.


1942-GermanFilm-NSDAPmembersTraining2.mp4
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Berlin 1942: Propaganda footage showing members of the Nazi party having a jogging session.

Berlino 1942: Filmato di propaganda con membri del partito nazista che fanno jogging.


1942-GermanFilm-RetardedChildren.mp4
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1942, Berlin: Retarded children proposed for sterilization by the Nazis.

Berlino 1942: Bambini con disagi mentali per cui i nazisti hanno proposto la sterilizzazione.


1942-GermanFilm-AHinColor5m.mp4
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1939-1942: Montage of private Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler amateur footage.

1939-1942: Montaggio di filmati amatoriali privati di Eva Braun e Adolf Hitler.


1943-GermanFilm-Amputated.mp4
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Germany 1943: Rehabilitation exercises for amputated German soldiers.

Germania 1943: Esercizi di riabilitazione per soldati tedeschi amputati.
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1943-GermanFilm-OfficierMarriageAmateur.mp4
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Germany 1943: The marriage of a German officer. Amateur film.

Germania 1943: Il matrimonio di un ufficiale tedesco. Film amatoriale.
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1943WOCHEN-celebrating10YsOfNaziPower.avi
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German complete newsreel from 1943 celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hitler's dictatorship.

Cinegiornale tedesco completo del 1943. Vengono sottolineate le conquiste sociali e le grandi opere del nazismo nel decimo anniversario della presa del potere.


1943-DieDivisionDesReichsmarshalls.mp4
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Language: German

Die Division des Reichsmarshalls (1943)

German complete propaganda documentary about the Hermann Goering Division.

Documentario di propaganda sulla Divisione Hermann Goering.


1944circa-PartyAtBerghof01.mp4
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Eva Braun private amateur footage, circa 1944, filmed at the Berghof, near Berchtesgaden.

Montaggio di filmati amatoriali privati di Eva Braun, girati al Berghof, nei pressi di Berchtesgaden.


1944circa-PartyAtBerghof02.mp4
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Eva Braun private amateur footage, circa 1944, filmed at the Berghof, near Berchtesgaden.

Montaggio di filmati amatoriali privati di Eva Braun, girati al Berghof, nei pressi di Berchtesgaden.


1944WOCHEN-Normandy.mp4
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German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about the Allied invasion of Normandy.

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del 1944 sul D-day e lo sbarco in Normandia.


1944airWar-WOCHEN.mp4
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Language: German
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German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about air war over Germany.

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del 1944 sulla guerra aerea sui cieli della Germania


1944antiAirRaidDefense01-WOCHEN.mp4
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German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about air war over Germany.

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del 1944 sulla guerra aerea sui cieli della Germania.


1944antiAirRaidDefense02-WOCHEN.mp4
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Language: German
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German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about air war over Germany.

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del 1944 sulla guerra aerea sui cieli della Germania.


1944antiAirRaidDefense03-WOCHEN.mp4
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German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about air war over Germany.

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del 1944 sulla guerra aerea sui cieli della Germania.


1944-GermanFilm-Peenemunde-V2Tests.mov
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Early 1944: young Von Braun and the early testings of the V2 at Peenemunde, Germany.

Primi mesi del 1944. Peenemunde, Germania: il giovane Von Braun testa i nuovissimi missili V2 destinati all'Inghilterra.


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Early 1944: montage of failed launchings of the V2 at Peenemunde, Germany.

Primi mesi del 1944. Peenemunde, Germania: lanci falliti di prototipi dei missili V2 destinati all'Inghilterra.
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1944-GermanFilm-TheBombingOfUfA.mp4
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Berlin 1944: The bombing of the UfA studios.

Berlino 1944: Il bombardamento degli studi cinematografici dell'UfA, la principale macchina propagandistica di Goebbels.


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PANORAMA - Wochenschau in Farbe (Summer 1944)

Summer 1944-Nazi propaganda complete color film. Original soundtrack. No subtitles.
In first part are shown young Nazi boys and girls living in a kind of ecological "Paradise on Earth" in the German countryside, and a weekend in Berlin, filmed by Goebbels' propaganda cameramen, pretending to show how the war and the constant bombings don't change normal life and habits of the Germans. Second part is showing Kossacks Russian cavalry troops allied with the Nazi army, (Kossacks, that were fighting followed by their women, as a reward for their bravery on the battlefields were given by the Nazis in 1944 a kind of "promised land" where they could live after the war. Many of them were given farms and lands in the Carnia. That is in Friuli, in the mountain region of east northern Italy. At the end of the war many of them were killed by Italian Partisans...). Film also shows the repairing of a damaged tank, the outstanding Schnell-Boots of the Kriegmarine and the training of paratroopers.

Estate 1944: Film nazista di propaganda completo. Sonoro originale.
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1944BritishFilm-RAF-NightMission-Berlin2.mov
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A British RAF night raid over Berlin, filmed in color in 1944.

Missione notturna della RAF su Berlino nel 1944.
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1944-HamburgBombing.mp4
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Uncensored silent color footage of the fires and the aftermath of the saturation incendiary night bombing runs that destroyed Hamburg on 07-28-1944, causing the death of over 50.000 civilians and more than a million homeless. Original montage.

Altre sequenze a colori sulla serie di bombardamenti che distrusse Amburgo il 28-07-1944, causando oltre 50.000 morti fra la popolazione civile.
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A weekend in 1944 Berlin, filmed by Goebbels' propaganda cameramen, pretending to show how the war and the constant bombings don't change normal life and habits of the Germans...

Un "tranquillo weekend" nella Berlino del 1944 come appare in un film tedesco di propaganda. Goebbels, con filmati come questo, intendeva dimostrare che la Germania conduceva una vita normale, nonostante la guerra ed i costanti, continui bombardamenti...


1944-v2-color-01.mp4
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1944 Peenemunde, Germany. Testing of the new V2 missiles. Color footage with original captured sound. Extremely rare!

Rare riprese a colori effettuate a Peenemunde, base delle V2 tedesche e laboratorio del giovane Von Braun. Sonoro originale in presa diretta.
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1944WOCHEN-SS-Hitlerjugend.mp4
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Language: German
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German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about SS Division "Hitlerjugend".

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del 1944 sulla Divisione SS "Hitlerjugend".


1944WOCHEN-totalerkrieg.mp4
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German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about Goebbels' speech on "Total War" at Berlin Sportpalatz.

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del 1944 sull famoso discorso di Goebbels allo Sportpalatz di Berlino sulla "Guerra Totale".


1944WOCHEN-dec-Mutilated.mp4
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German complete newsreel from 1944 about the training of mutilated soldiers.

Cinegiornale tedesco completo del 1944 sulla rieducazione psico-motoria dei soldati mutilati.


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Producer: Romano-Archives / Vincent Romano

Slide-show of hi-definition photos taken by the US Air Force lead bombardiers on board of the flying fortresses, during the bombing runs against German targets.

Sequenza di foto in alta definizione, scattate dai "direttori di tiro", a bordo delle fortezze volanti americane durante varie missioni di bombardamento contro obbiettivi tedeschi.


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The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
Directed by William Wyler

Documentary about the 25th and last bombing mission of a B-17, the "Memphis Belle". The "Memphis Belle" took part in a great bombing raid on sub-pens in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. On their way they encounterd heavy AA fire and interceptors.
The pilot was 24-year-old Captain Robert K. Morgan from Asheville, North Carolina who was an industrial engineer before joining the Army in 1941; the co-pilot, whom Captain Morgan insisted was "the other pilot', was 25-year-old Captain James A. Verinis from New Haven, Connecticut, who was a business administration student at the University of Connecticut before entering the service in July of 1941; Captain Vincent B. Evans, the 23-year-old bombadier was one of the two married members of the crew, and was a fleet-truck operator in his home town of Fort Worth, Texas before enlisting in January of 1942; Captain Charles B. Leighton, from East Lansing,Michigan and a chemistry student at Ohio Wesleyan before entering the service, was the navigator. The engineer and top turret gunner was Technical Sergeant Harold P.Loch, a 23-year-old stevedore from Green Bay, Wisconsin who joined the service in November of 1941; Technical Sergeant Robert J.Hanson, a construction worker from Washington state and the other married crew member, was the radio operator. The 19-year-old "baby" of the Memphis Belle crew was waist-gunner Staff Sergeant Casimer A. Nastal who was a washing machine repairman from Detroit, Michigan with two confirmed fighter kills to his credit who thought he had more "but never had time to watch whether they went down"; Staff Sergeant Cecil H. Scott, a pressman for a rubber company in Rahway, New Jersey was the ball turret gunner and, at 27, the oldest member of the crew. One of the three cameraman was First Lieutenant Harold J. Tannenbaum, from Binghamton,New York, a World War I veteran who remained in the Navy until 1927. He re-entered the service in July,1942 when he received his commission in the Army Air Force. He was killed in action,age 46, in April of 1944 while filming this movie and received a posthumous Purple Heart.

Documentario sulla venticinquesima ed ultima missione di un B-17, il Memphis Belle. Il bombardamento della base per sottomarini di Wilhelmshaven in Germania, il fuoco di sbarramento della contraerea, i duelli all'ultimo sangue con i caccia nazisti, vissuti in prima persona dai singoli membri dell'equipaggio e filmati in tempo reale dalla troupe diretta dal grande William Wyler. Uno dei cineoperatori, il 46enne tenente della riserva e veterano della Prima Guerra Mondiale Harold J. Tannenbaum, morirà colpito da una scheggia di shrapnel durante le riprese e verrà decorato con la Purple Heart alla memoria.


1944Germany-Bomb-Disposal.mp4
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A German bomb-disposal hero. German newsreel excerpt.

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco. Un eroico artificiere tedesco.


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Nazi fighters sometimes strike back successfully but Allied planes are just too many! Filmed on board of the attacking fighters.

La caccia tedesca talvolta coglie qualche successo, ma verrà comunque presto schiacciata dall'enorme strapotere industriale degli USA. Girato a bordo dei caccia che hanno partecipato all'azione.


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Nazi fighters sometimes strike back successfully but Allied planes are just too many! Filmed on board of one of the attacking fighters.

La caccia tedesca talvolta coglie qualche successo, ma verrà comunque presto schiacciata dall'enorme strapotere industriale degli USA. Girato a bordo di uno dei caccia che hanno partecipato all'azione.


1944Luftwaffe-Color-Footage.mp4
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German Luftwaffe WW2 color footage.

Sequenze a colori girate dalla cinematografia tedesca nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale.


WW2-col1942-44warfootage.mp4
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Allied and German rare color footage from 1942 to 1944.

Rare sequenze a colori girate dagli Alleati e dalla cinematografia nazista dal 1942 al 1944.


1944-12-14die-deutsche-wochenschau.mov
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German complete newsreel from 12-14-1944.
War is lost and near the end but Goebbels' propaganda tries to show a Germany still hardly fighting and ready to counterattack in the Ardennes. Anyway even Goebbels can't hide the costant terror imposed by the allied Air Force over the German Army. For both military and civilians, death comes from the air.

Cinegiornale tedesco completo del 14-12-1944.
La guerra stà per terminare e la Germania sà di aver perso da almeno un paio d'anni...
Ciononostante la propaganda di Goebbels dipinge nei suoi cinegiornali una continua serie di offensive e contrattacchi travolgenti da parte di un esercito tedesco ancora potente. Comunque, nemmeno i cineoperatori del regime possono nascondere quanto ormai sia costante il terrore imposto alle truppe hitleriane da parte dell'aviazione alleata. Per entrambi, militari e civili, la morte arriva dal cielo...


1944-GermanFilm-Late44Propaganda.mp4
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Germany 1944: German propaganda footage showing everyday life in Germany.

Germania 1944: Filmato di propaganda sulla vita di tutti i giorni in Germania.


1944-GermanFilm-Late44-WarProd-Slaves.mp4
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Germany 1944: German footage showing the use of slave workers for war production.

Germania 1944: Filmato che documenta l'uso di lavoratori-schiavi in Germania per la produzione di guerra.


1944USFilms-October-USTroopsEnteringGermany.mov
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October 1944: US troops enter Germany.

Ottobre 1944: Le truppe americane entrano in Germania.


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PANORAMA - Wochenschau in Farbe (Autumn 1944)

December 1944 (Circa)-Nazi propaganda color film (Excerpt). Original soundtrack. English subtitles.

In this "Panorama" newsreel are shown: harvesting grapes on the Rhine in the sixth year of war, war landscapes (Carpatian mountains), Italian Alps: Allied fighters strafing a German convoy and AAA German fire, German Luftwaffe escorting German ships in the Norvegian Sea and artillery duel with Russian coastal batteries, boat race for Hitlerjugend boys.

Dicembre 1944: Segmento iniziale di un film nazista di propaganda. Sonoro originale. Sottotitoli in Inglese.
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1944-Dec-ColorWochen-Luftwaffe-GLIDERS.mp4
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PANORAMA - Wochenschau in Farbe (Autumn 1944)

Autumn 1944. "Panorama" newsreel excerpt showing Luftwaffe gliders training. Original soundtrack. English subtitles.

Autunno 1944: Segmento di un film nazista di propaganda. Sonoro originale. Sottotitoli in Inglese. Esercitazioni con gli alianti della Luftwaffe.
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1944-Dec-ColorWochen-GermanRedCross.mp4
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PANORAMA - Wochenschau in Farbe (Autumn 1944)

Autumn 1944. "Panorama" newsreel excerpt showing the activities of the German Red Cross. Original soundtrack. English subtitles.

Autunno 1944: Segmento di un film nazista di propaganda. Sonoro originale. Sottotitoli in Inglese. Le attività della Croce Rossa tedesca.
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1944-Dec-ColorWochen-BavarianAlps.mp4
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PANORAMA - Wochenschau in Farbe (Autumn 1944)

Autumn 1944. "Panorama" newsreel excerpt showing scenes of everyday life on the Bavarian Alps. Part 1. Original soundtrack. English subtitles.

Autunno 1944: Segmento di un film nazista di propaganda. Sonoro originale. Sottotitoli in Inglese. Vita di tutti i giorni sulle Alpi bavaresi. Prima Parte.


1944-Dec-ColorWochen-BavarianAlps2.mp4
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PANORAMA - Wochenschau in Farbe (Autumn 1944)

Autumn 1944. "Panorama" newsreel excerpt showing scenes of everyday life on the Bavarian Alps. Part 2. Original soundtrack. English subtitles.

Autunno 1944: Segmento di un film nazista di propaganda. Sonoro originale. Sottotitoli in Inglese. Vita di tutti i giorni sulle Alpi bavaresi. Seconda Parte.


1945-Jan-ColorWochen-WermachtChampionship.mp4
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PANORAMA - Wochenschau in Farbe (January 1945)

January 1945. "Panorama" newsreel excerpt showing a sport championship for German soldiers. Original soundtrack. English subtitles.

Gennaio 1945. Segmento di un film nazista di propaganda. Sonoro originale. Sottotitoli in Inglese. Campionato sportivo per soldati della Wermacht.
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1943-45LuftwaffeFootage.mov
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Nazi fighters sometimes strike back successfully but Allied planes are just too many! Filmed on board of the attacking fighters.

La caccia tedesca talvolta coglie qualche successo, ma verrà comunque presto schiacciata dall'enorme strapotere industriale degli USA. Girato a bordo dei caccia che hanno partecipato all'azione.


1945WOCHEN-01-11-45.mp4
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German complete newsreel from 01-11-1945 about the battle of the Bulge.

Cinegiornale tedesco completo dell'11-01-1945 sull'offensiva nelle Ardenne.


1945WOCHEN-battle-of-the-Oder.mp4
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German newsreel from 1945 (excerpt) about the battle of the Oder river, last battle before Berlin.

Estratto da un cinegiornale tedesco del 1945 sulla battaglia del fiume Oder, l'ultima battaglia prima di quella per Berlino.


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Probably one of the last B-17 downed by a squad of the few Nazi fighters left. Dramatic rare German footage from early 1945, filmed on board of one of the attacking fighters.

Probabilmente uno degli ultimi B-17 abbattuti dalla sempre più esigua caccia nazista in questo raro e drammatico filmato tedesco, degli inizi del 1945, girato a bordo di uno dei caccia che hanno partecipato all'azione.


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At the end of the War, Nazis use the new Messerschmitt-262 jet fighters against the Allied bombers. Technologically they win the War... but the Me-262 are very few and there are too many fortresses...

Verso la fine della guerra i tedeschi usano per la prima volta contro i bombardieri alleati i loro nuovissimi caccia a reazione
Messerschmitt-262. La Germania nazista tecnologicamente ha vinto la guerra... ma i Me 262 sono troppo pochi e le fortezze volanti sono troppe!


1945Wehrmacht-Color-Footage.mov
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German WW2 color footage from 1945.

Sequenze a colori girate dalla cinematografia tedesca all'inizio del 1945.


1945GermanInfantry-targeted.mp4
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Allied footage from 1945. German Infantry is targeted by US fighters.

Sequenze a colori girate dagli Alleati all'inizio del 1945. Fanteria tedesca viene attaccata dai caccia USA.


1945KSAERIAWW2Bomb.mp4
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Allied footage from 1945. German town is targeted by US bombers.

Sequenze a colori girate dagli Alleati all'inizio del 1945. Una città tedesca viene bombardata dall'aviazione USA.


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Kolberg (1945)
Producer: UfA

"Kolberg" is an example of the "pure war film". Compare with Mizoguchi's The Loyal 47 Ronin (1941-42); Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible (1943); Lewis Seiler, Guadalcanal Diary (1943); Laurence Olivier, Henry V (1944):
it is about war (the Franco-Prussian war of 1806-07)
it shows men in combat
it is made during another war (WW2)
it is made for the war effort (propaganda).
To complete the filming, a top priority for Nazi Propaganda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, thousands of Wermacht soldiers were taken out of the front line to partecipate in the battle sequences of "Kolberg" and quickly sent back to fight (and die) against the upcoming Red Army.
Goebbels' sense that he was living in a film of the Nazi's own making. In April 1945 as Berlin was being encircled Goebbels spoke to his staff at the Propaganda Ministry about the spirit of resistance in the film "Kolberg" and predicted that an even more important historical film would one day be made about their final hours defending the Reich:
"Gentlemen, in a hundred years' time they will be showing another fine colour film describing the terrible days we are living through. Don't you want to play a part in this film, to be brought back to life in a hundred years' time? Everybody now has a chance to choose the part which he will play in the film a hundred years hence. I can assure you that it will be a fine and elevating picture. And for the sake of this prospect it is worth standing fast. Hold out now, so that a hundred years' hence the audience does not hoot and whistle when you appear on the screen."
Detailed infos about this movie can be found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/dmhart/WarFilms/OldGuides/Kolberg.html

"Kolberg" prodotto alla fine della guerra e considerato una priorità assoluta dal Ministro della Propaganda Goebbels, utilizzò soldati prelevati dal fronte come comparse per le scene d'azione. Dettagliate informazioni (in Inglese) su questo film sono disponibili qui:
http://homepage.mac.com/dmhart/WarFilms/OldGuides/Kolberg.html
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Montage with Goebbels' speech on "Total War" at Berlin Sportpalatz and shots of the last battle for Berlin.

Montaggio di sequenze del famoso discorso di Goebbels allo Sportpalatz di Berlino sulla "Guerra Totale" e scene della battaglia di Berlino.


1945LASTGERMANNEWSREEL-MARCH45.mp4
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German complete newsreel. This is the last "Deutsche Wocheschau" produced (March 1945). Starting and ending titles missing.

L'ultimo cinegiornale prodotto dalla cinematografia nazista (Marzo 1945). Mancano i titoli di testa e di coda.


1945colorAlliedFighterSrafe.mp4
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Allied footage from 1945. German air base is targeted by US fighters.

Sequenze a colori girate dagli Alleati all'inizio del 1945. Un campo d'aviazione tedesco viene attaccato dai caccia USA.


WW2-colP47Guncamerafootage.mp4
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Fighter gun-camera footage from 1945. German Infantry is targeted by US fighters.

Sequenze a colori da cineprese automatiche applicate alle mitragliatrici dei caccia dagli Alleati, inizio 1945.


WW2-col-Germany-April45.mp4
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Rare Allied footage from April and May 1945. Germany: the last fights and the surrendering of the German Army.

Rare sequenze a colori girate dagli Alleati nell'Aprile/Maggio del 1945. Gli ultimi combattimenti e la resa dei tedeschi.


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Here Is Germany (1945)
Produced by: Office of War Information
Directed by. Frank Capra
Propaganda documentary film directed by Frank Capra. Like its companion film, Know Your Enemy: Japan, the film is a full-length exploration of why one of the two major Axis countries started World War II and what had to be done to keep them from "doing it again".
The film opens with scenes of everyday life in Germany. It shows people such as housewives, policemen and farmers at work, and notes that these people weren't so different than us. Or are they? another narrator interrupts. The film then switches to a montage of Nazi concentration camps and piles of dead bodies. The narrator notes that this isn't the only time that Germany has unleashed war on the world, stating that while its generation fought the "Nazis", its fathers fought the "Huns" (pejorative term for Germany during World War I), and its grand father remembers the "Prussians". The narrator claims that its was all part of the same German lust for conquest.
Going even further back 150 years, the film informs us that while America, Britain, and France were forming their democratic traditions, Germany was a group of 300 medieval feudal states, not one of them with a constitution or parliament. The film traces the rise of Prussia from Frederick the Great through Bismarck, telling the audience that the Prussian state was dominated first by aristocratic landowners, militarists and state officials, later joined by the big industrialists. This development of a military industrial dominated state climaxes in World War I. When the above mentioned elements knew that they were beaten, according to the film, they put the democratic parties in charge in order to discredit the new republic. Once that was accomplished they found a stooge in Hitler, who would finally destroy the Weimar Republic with the addition of a 5th pillar - criminals.
The film depicts the Third Reich entirely from this perspective, seeing Nazism as simply a continuation of the aggressive German tradition, and then merely a façade for the military-industrial complex. Antisemitism is never mentioned explicitly, only implied when a picture of Julius Streicher is shown and the narrator mentions that he was a "hatemonger".

Documentario di propaganda diretto da Frank Capra sulla storia del popolo tedesco e sul tipo di rapporti che è consigliabile tenere con i tedeschi nella Germania occupata.







1945-47 The Survived Germany




1945-BerlinJune1945-Aer01.mp4
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Color footage filmed in Berlin By US Army Camera Units in the months following V-Day Europe.

Filmati a colori girati a Berlino dall'esercito USA nei mesi successivi alla resa della Germania.


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Color footage filmed in Berlin By US Army Camera Units in the months following V-Day Europe.

Filmati a colori girati a Berlino dall'esercito USA nei mesi successivi alla resa della Germania.


1945-BerlinJune1945-Aer03.mp4
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Color footage filmed in Berlin By US Army Camera Units in the months following V-Day Europe.

Filmati a colori girati a Berlino dall'esercito USA nei mesi successivi alla resa della Germania.
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1945-Berlin1945-June-02.mp4
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Color footage filmed in Berlin By US Army Camera Units in the months following V-Day Europe.

Filmati a colori girati a Berlino dall'esercito USA nei mesi successivi alla resa della Germania.


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Color footage filmed in Berlin By US Army Camera Units in the months following V-Day Europe.

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Color footage filmed in Berlin By US Army Camera Units in the months following V-Day Europe.

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Color footage filmed in Berlin By US Army Camera Units in the months following V-Day Europe. President Truman visiting Berlin.

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Germany 28 Months After V-Day (1947)

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Four reels 46 minutes movie. Investigation of German industrial production capabilities after the devastation of World War II. With striking images of destroyed German cities and factories. Amateur film made by George T. Fonda, assistant to the president, Weirton Steel Company.
Subject: An un-polished amateur film
Towards the end of part one, and continued in the rest, you see what the aftermath of a real war is. Not some Hollywood movie or some terroristic attack: building after building, street after street, city after city of rubble. People, years after the end of the war, digging in the ruins, and barefoot children in food ration lines.
Eventually we get to some shots of a trip up the Rhine to the ruins of earlier mini-empires (castles) and some factories and the Munich beer gardens, but that is a let down. It is the documentation of the debris, of the utter destruction of cities - of civilian population centers - by US and UK bombing still evident years afterward that make this film highly valuable. It makes me think about how Nazi Germany thought it was an undefeatable superpower with the world's best technology and best military, yet this happened to them...
Shotlist
"These pictures were taken by Mr. George T. Fonda, Assistant to the president, Weirton Steel Co., during an investigation of German industrial production. Mr. Charles Murray, Vice President, American Rolling Mill Co. was associated with Mr. Fonda on this investigation."
Amateur film covers the Ruhr in the British Zone and Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich and Nuremberg in the American Zone.
"The objective was to report on German industrial production and manpower problems and to determine the factors deterring maximum production."
Title cards [names and places listed below have been transcribed from title cards]
Stock shots:
Some shots of people in the street; but even urban areas seem bereft of people.
"By Army Plane from London to Berlin (note destruction in Berlin)" aerials; Tempelhof Airport, Berlin; wealthy German residence; Goebbels residence in Berlin (damaged); American military headquarters (formerly Luftwaffe HQ); African-American soldier guarding headquarters salutes; General Lucius Clay and staff review troops; Ambassador Murphy; Frank Fritts, economic adviser to General Clay; colored map showing partioning of Germany; bombed out buildings; devastation; Germans scrounging in ruins;
Schillstrasse; the Reichstag; 1870 Victory Column; the Tiergarten; Russian monument to 1945 victory; Hitler's chancellery and office; the bunker where Hitler died. Goebbels propaganda radio tower; small shops emerging from the ruins; Olympic stadium; by rail to Essen; ruins in Hamm and Dortmund; the Krupp works in Essen; Oberhausen; Huttenwerk; Duisberg; Huckingen; Gelsenkirchen; Zollverein Colliery (largest coal mine in Ruhr); production charts; British Administrative Headquarters; Cologne (80% destroyed) .
Terrific footage of the Rhine from a boat, farmland on hillsides, includes castles, and other architecturally distinctive buildings; Weisbaden; Giesseheim, Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. plant; Bierbrich; Dyckerhoff Portland Cement Co.; Russelsheim; Opel Autoworks; automobile factory; Heidenheim; J.M. Voith Co.; Voehringen; Wieland Werke - aluminum;
Munich; man with amputated leg walking with crutches; title card: small private enterprise emerging: a woman asking Mr. Murray where she might get materials to make dolls; Exposition Building in Munich; Beer garden in Munich where Hitler started out; food ration lines: Bavaria; animal drawn farm carts; German Tiger tank destroyed on Bavaria farm; American military headquarters in Munich; American flag waving in the wind.

Incredibile, lungo filmato amatoriale a colori, composto da 4 bobine di pellicola Kodachrome, su un'investigazione svolta nel 1947, 28 mesi dopo la fine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale in Europa, riguardante le possibilità di recupero industriale da parte della Germania.
Il compito da svolgere per la Weirton Steel Company non impedisce alla cinepresa di George T. Fonda di curiosare a fondo su ciò che davvero è rimasto della Germania... Fra le rovine scopriamo che cominciano ad aprire timidamente i primi negozi. Molti bambini vanno ancora in giro scalzi... Le uniche, rarissime auto in circolazione sono quelle degli ufficiali e delle delegazioni... come la "nostra". Molte strade urbane sono ancora impercorribili per via delle macerie.
La Cancelleria e l'ufficio di Hitler, assieme al Fuhrerbunker, sono tappe "turistiche" obbligate per il nostro amico operatore. Sembrano posti dove le ostilità sono appena cessate... sbalorditivo! Le riprese, molto accurate ed inedite in Italia, riguardano anche altri luoghi cult del nazismo, come la stazione radio di Goebbels (con super-antenna, intatta, annessa) e la sua villa di Berlino, lo Stadio Olimpico, la famosa birreria di Monaco ed altri.
Questa trasferta oltreoceano dei managers della Weirton Steel Company si svolge fra gli agi di ville e castelli espropriati ad industriali compromessi col regime, avvenenti "segretarie" tedesche, macchinoni americani con autista messi a disposizione dall'US Army, gite fluviali in comode barche a motore... tutti i privilegi dei vincitori, insomma!



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A complete Collection of the German Newsreels: Die-Deutsche-Wochenschau, UfA-Europawoche, Descheg-Monatsschau and Panorama-Farbmonatsschau (in Color) is available.

E' disponibile la Collezione completa dei seguenti cinegiornali tedeschi: Die-Deutsche-Wochenschau, UfA-Europawoche, Descheg-Monatsschau e Panorama-Farbmonatsschau (a colori).

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