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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.
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
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
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.
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?
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...
1921richter-rythm21.ram
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Rithmus 21(Rythm 21) (1921)
Director and Producer: Hans Richter
Experimental Dada short.
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.
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.
1923richter-rythm23.ram
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Rithmus 23 (Rythm 23) (1923)
Director and Producer: Hans Richter
Experimental Dada short.
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?
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.
1927BerlinSoaBC.avi
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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.
Click HERE to watch an excerpt from this film on GoogleVideo
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).
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.
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.
1928Richter_Inflation.avi
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Run Time: 00:02:29
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Inflation (1928)
Director and Producer: Hans Richter
An ironic look at the dangerous effects of inflation in Germany.
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.
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.
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.
1931DieWeisseRausch.avi
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Die Weisse Rausch (1931)
Film about skying in the Alps starring Leni Riefenstahl.
1931No_Mans_Land.avi
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Niemansland (1931)
Strong pacifist film on World War One.
1931-M.mpeg
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Language: German with English subtitles
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.
1931Die-Koffer-des-Herrn-PeterLorre.mp4
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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.
1932DieVerkaufteBraut.mp4
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Original Soundtrack No Subtitles
Die Verkaufte Braut (1932)
Director: Max Ophuls
Producer: Hermann Rosenfeld and Ludwig Scheer
Infos about this film are available on its IMDB page.
1933einstein-in-the-USA.mp4
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Producer: Unknown
Albert Einstein and his wife in the USA, after escaping from Nazi Germany.
1933-DeutschlandErwacht-EinDokumentVonDerWiedergeburtDeutschlands.mp4
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Deutschland Erwacht - Ein Dokument von der Wiedergeburt Deutschlands (1933)
Produced by: Lignose Hörfilm - Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)
Nazi propaganda film.
1933-FurUns-ZumAppell.mp4
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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.
1933HitlerjungeQuex.mp4
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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.
1933DerDeutscheReichstagZuNuernberg.mp4
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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.
1933NuremburgRallies-OfficialFilms27-33.mp4
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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.
1933AH-ZumBaubeginnDerReichsautobahne.mp4
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Adolf Hitler - Zum Baubeginn der Reichsautobahne (1933)
Producer: Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)
Adolf Hitler speaks at the beginning of the construction of the first German highway.
1933DrFritzTodt-ZumBaubeginnDerReichsautobahne.mp4
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Dr Fritz Todt - Zum Baubeginn der Reichsautobahne (1933)
Producer: Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)
Fritz Todt speaks at the beginning of the construction of the first German highway. At the end appears an Opel automobiles ad in color.
1933SA-Mann-Brand.mp4
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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.
1934circa-JugendRegattaInGraunau.avi
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Language: German
Jugend Regatta in Graunau (circa 1934)
Producer: Unknown
Hitler Youth regatta in Graunau.
1934TriumphOfTheWill.avi
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Language: German
Thriumph des Willens (1934)
Produced by: Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)
Directed by: Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary film of the 1934 Reich Party Day in Nurberg.
1935GöringsLionCaesar.mov
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Language: German
Göring's Lion, Cesar (1935)
Amateur footage filmed at Göring's mansion, Karinhalle in 1935.
1936-EwigeWache-FilmUeberDieFeldherrnhalle.mp4
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Language: German
Ewige Wache - Film ueber die Feldherrnhalle (1936)
Production: Dr. Brieger - Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)
Nazi propaganda film.
1936DerFuehrerbesichtigtdieLeibstandarte&AuszugvomReichsparteitag.mp4
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Language: German
Der Fuehrer Besichtigt die Leibstandarte und Auszug vom Reichsparteitag (1936)
Production: Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)
Nazi propaganda film.
1936ReichsparteitagDerEhreInNürnberg.mp4
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Language: German
Reichsparteitag der Ehre in Nürnberg (1936)
Production: Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (NSDAP)
Documentary film of the 1936 Reich Party Day in Nuremburg (fragment).
1936OlympischeWinterspiele.mp4
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Language: German
Olympische Winterspiele in Garmish-Partenkirchen(1936)
Producer unknown
Amateur documentary film of the 1936 Winter Olimpic Games in Garmish-Partenkirchen.
1937circa-HitlerjugendInDenBergen.mp4
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Language: German
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.
1937MussoliniInGermania.mp4
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Language: German
Mussolini Visits Germany (1937)
Production: Universum Film (UfA)
Documentary film of the 1937 Benito Mussolini trip to Germany.
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.
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.
Here is a complete list of the artists included in the exhibit's catalog.
* 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.
Here are some example.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Julius (Julo) Levin was considered a degenerate artist by the Nazis. He was arrested and died in Auschwitz.
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Fortunately, many prominent artists were able to escape German-controlled Europe thanks to 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.
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.
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1937GoebbelsSpeechOnGermanArt.mp4
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Part of a Goebbels' 1937 speech on Art in Nazi Germany. English subtitles.
1937degenerate-art/images.mov
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Slide-show of images from the 1937 German exibition Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art).
1937DegenerateArtAmateurMovie.mov
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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).
1937DegenerateArtGermanMute.mov
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Short sequence from a 1937 German film on the exibition Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art).
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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.
Arno-Breker.mov
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Original propaganda documentary on the Nazi artist Arno Breker.
Josef-Thorak.mov
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Original propaganda documentary on the Nazi artist Josef Thorak.
1937circa-Eva-And-Family-Nude-bw.mp4
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Eva Braun private family amateur footage from circa 1937.
SWINGIN'
...with
Dr.
GoebbelsIn 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.
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.
Here are 3 samples of lyrics from songs performed by 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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
You can download a sample mp3 of Charlie and His Orchestra (4 MB), "Submarines", clicking on the image below.
Charlie and His Orchestra - Submarines
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:
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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1936berlin-OlimpicGames.mp4
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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.
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1937Germany-NazyRally.mp4
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1937: Big Nazi rally for the 1st of May.
Late1930ies-Nazi-Expeditions.mp4
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Late 1930ies. Himmler's visionary dream. Forgotten Nazi expeditions and explorations.
1937HindenburgMPEG2-Mute.mpeg
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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.
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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.
1937-05-10TheHindenburg-HerbMorrison.mp4
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1937-05-10 The Hindenburg burning: newsreel and WLS-Chicago broadcasting with Herb Morrison report.
1937-05-10TheHindenburg-colorNewsR.mp4
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1937-05-10 The Hindenburg burning: unidentified color newsreel excerpt.
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1937-05-10TheHindenburg-New.mp4
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The Hindenburg. New outstanding color footage.
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1937-NaziChristmas.mov
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Christmas 1937 in Nazi Germany.
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.
1938circa-Wildwasser.mov
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Wildwasser (circa 1938)
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Hitler Youth boys and girls in a wild mountain river.
1938circa-SommeWindUndSegel.mov
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Somme Wind und Segel (circa 1938)
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Yacht School for Hitler Youth girls .
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.
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1938NUREMBERG-Reichsparteitag.mp4
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Nuremberg, 1938. Amateur film fragment. Nazi Party congress at the Zeppelin Arena.
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1938Olympia1.mov
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Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker (1938)
Producer: Universum Film (UfA)
The first part of the mythical Leni Riefensthal's movie about the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
1938Olympia2.mov
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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.
1938GermanFilm-CianoAtBercht-HimmlerAndOthers2.mov
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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.
1938GermanAutobahnInauguration.mp4
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Adolf Hitler inaugurating the last part of the completed German Highway. Fragment. Original soundtrack.
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1938WortUndTat.mp4
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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).
1938EuropeanTripPart1.mpeg Available on DVD
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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.
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.
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1938-39ShaeferExpeditionTIBETc1.mov
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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.
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.
1939-DeutscheFreiwilligeInSpanien-VomKampfDerLegionCondor.mov
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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.
1939circa-EvaAndFamily-StarnbergerSee.mp4
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Eva Braun private family color amateur footage from circa 1939.
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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.
1939-Eva-Color-Berghof02.mp4
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Eva Braun private color amateur footage from 1939 filmed at the Berghof, near Berchtesgaden.
1939-Eva-Color-Berghof03.mp4
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Eva Braun private color amateur footage from Summer 1939 filmed at the Berghof, near Berchtesgaden.
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.
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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?!
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1939EvaBraunAtTheWaterfall-Col-Snd.mp4
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Eva Braun private color amateur footage from Summer 1939.
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1939Berghof-Col-Snd-Blondie.mp4
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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.
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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.
1940-1945 The Destroyers
1940TheEternalJew.wmv
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Language: German, subtitled in English
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
1940-05-10Die-Deutsche-Wochenschau.mpg
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Language: German
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...
1940JudSuess.mov
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Language: German, subtitled in English
Jud Süß (1940)
Production Company: Terra Filmkunst
Director: Veit Harlan
Notorious Nazi propaganda anti-Semitic film.
1940-07-08Die-Deutsche-Wochenschau.avi
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Language: German
German complete newsreel from 07-08-1940.
1940-07-18Die-Deutsche-Wochenschau.mp4
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Language: German
German complete newsreel from 07-18-1940.
1940-Die-Deutsche-Wochenschau.mp4
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Language: German
German newsreel from 1940 (excerpt) about the invasion of Holland.
1940Kampf-um-Norwegen-Feldzug.avi
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Language: German
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.
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.
1940-12-22die-deutsche-wochenschau.avi
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Language: German
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...?
1941AfricaKorps-wochen.mp4
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Language: German
German newsreel from 1941 (excerpt) about Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps.
1941AfricaKorps-wochenCOLOR.mp4
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Language: German
Rare color German newsreel from 1941 (excerpt) about Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps.
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1941Panzerlied.mp4
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German WW2 color footage.
1941U-boots.mov
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German WW2 color footage.
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1941Lied-der-Panzergrenadiere.mp4
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German WW2 color footage.
1941GermanyAtWar-Vol1.mp4
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Language: German
German Complete propaganda documentary from 1941.
1941Russia-wochen-EnglishSubt.mp4
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Language: German
English Subtitles
German newsreel from 1941 (excerpt) about the attack on Russia.
1941DieFrontschau-Vol4.mp4
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Language: German
Die Frontschau-Vol.4 (1941)
Production: UfA
German complete propaganda documentary from 1941.
1942-HelferinnenDerWehrmacht.mp4
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Language: German
Helferinnen der Wehrmacht (1942)
Production: Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
German complete propaganda documentary from 1942 filmed in Greece.
1942bombing-mission-over-malta.mp4
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Language: Italian
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.
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19412DerGrosseKoenig.mp4
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Language: German
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).
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.
1942-45made-CombatAmericaP1.mpeg Available on DVD
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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.
1942SuperCargoPlane-wochen.mp4
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Language: German
German newsreel from 1942 (excerpt) about an outstanding super-plane.
1942WOCHEN-november.mp4
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Language: German
German newsreel from November 1942 (excerpt).
1942WOCHEN-Xmas.mp4
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German newsreel from 1942 (excerpt) about the fourth Christmas of war.
1942-GermanFilm-NSDAPmembersTraining2.mp4
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Berlin 1942: Propaganda footage showing members of the Nazi party having a jogging session.
1942-GermanFilm-RetardedChildren.mp4
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1942, Berlin: Retarded children proposed for sterilization by the Nazis.
1942-GermanFilm-AHinColor5m.mp4
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1939-1942: Montage of private Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler amateur footage.
1943-GermanFilm-Amputated.mp4
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Germany 1943: rehabilitation exercises for amputated German soldiers.
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1943-GermanFilm-OfficierMarriageAmateur.mp4
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Germany 1943: The marriage of a German officer. Amateur film.
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1943WOCHEN-celebrating10YsOfNaziPower.avi
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Language: German
German complete newsreel from 1943 celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hitler's dictatorship.
1943-DieDivisionDesReichsmarshalls.mp4
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Language: German
Die Division des Reichsmarshalls (1943)
German complete propaganda documentary about the Hermann Goering Division.
1944circa-PartyAtBerghof01.mp4
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Eva Braun private amateur footage, circa 1944, filmed at the Berghof, near Berchtesgaden.
1944circa-PartyAtBerghof02.mp4
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Eva Braun private amateur footage, circa 1944, filmed at the Berghof, near Berchtesgaden.
1944WOCHEN-Normandy.mp4
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Language: German
German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about the Allied invasion of Normandy.
1944airWar-WOCHEN.mp4
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Language: German
English Subtitles
German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about air war over Germany.
1944antiAirRaidDefense01-WOCHEN.mp4
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Language: German
German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about air war over Germany.
1944antiAirRaidDefense02-WOCHEN.mp4
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Language: German
English Subtitles
German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about air war over Germany.
1944antiAirRaidDefense03-WOCHEN.mp4
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Language: German
German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about air war over Germany.
1944-GermanFilm-Peenemunde-V2Tests.mov
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Early 1944: young Von Braun and the early testings of the V2 at Peenemunde, Germany.
1944-V2FailedLaunchings.mp4
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Early 1944: montage of failed launchings of the V2 at Peenemunde, Germany.
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1944-GermanFilm-TheBombingOfUfA.mp4
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Berlin 1944: The bombing of the UfA studios.
1944-NaziProp.mp4
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1944BerlinPropagandaMovie.mov
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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...
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!
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1944WOCHEN-SS-Hitlerjugend.mp4
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Language: German
English Subtitles
German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about SS Division "Hitlerjugend".
1944WOCHEN-totalerkrieg.mp4
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Language: German
English Subtitles
German newsreel from 1944 (excerpt) about Goebbels' speech on "Total War" at Berlin Sportpalatz.
1944WOCHEN-dec-Mutilated.mp4
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Language: German
(English subtitles)
German complete newsreel from 1944 about the training of mutilated soldiers.
destroyers.mov
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Producer: Romano-Archives / Vincenzo Romano
Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
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.
1944TheMemphisBelle.mpeg
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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.
1944Germany-Bomb-Disposal.mp4
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A German bomb-disposal hero. German newsreel excerpt.
1944LuftwaffeAttack.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.
1944Luftwaffe-Scramble.mpeg
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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.
1944Luftwaffe-Color-Footage.mp4
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German Luftwaffe WW2 color footage.
WW2-col1942-44warfootage.mp4
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Allied and German rare color footage from 1942 to 1944.
1944-12-14die-deutsche-wochenschau.mov
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Language: German
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.
1944-GermanFilm-Late44Propaganda.mp4
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Germany 1944: German propaganda footage showing everyday life in Germany.
1944-GermanFilm-Late44-WarProd-Slaves.mp4
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Germany 1944: German footage showing the use of slave workers for war production.
1944USFilms-October-USTroopsEnteringGermany.mov
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October 1944: US troops enter Germany.
1944-Dec-ColorWochen.mp4
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
1945WOCHEN-01-11-45.mp4
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Language: German
German complete newsreel from 01-11-1945 about the battle of the Bulge.
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.
1945_B17-downed-by-nazi-fighters.mov
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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.
1945Me-262_Vs_B-17.mpeg
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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...
1945Wehrmacht-Color-Footage.mov
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German WW2 color footage from 1945.
1945GermanInfantry-targeted.mp4
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Allied footage from 1945. German Infantry is targeted by US fighters.
1945KSAERIAWW2Bomb.mp4
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Allied footage from 1945. German town is targeted by US bombers.
1945KOLBERG.mp4
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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
1945Goebbels-totalerkriegundBerlingefallen.avi
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Montage with Goebbels' speech on "Total War" at Berlin Sportpalatz and shots of the last battle for Berlin.
1945LASTGERMANNEWSREEL-MARCH45.mp4
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German complete newsreel. This is the last "Deutsche Wocheschau" produced (March 1945). Starting and ending titles missing.
1945colorAlliedFighterSrafe.mp4
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Allied footage from 1945. German air base is targeted by US fighters.
WW2-colP47Guncamerafootage.mp4
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Fighter gun-camera footage from 1945. German Infantry is targeted by US fighters.
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.
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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".
1945-47 The Survived Germany
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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.
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.
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.
1945-Berlin1945-July-10.mp4
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Color footage filmed in Berlin By US Army Camera Units in the months following V-Day Europe.
1945-Berlin1945-July-13.mp4
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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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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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1947-Germany1.mpeg Available on DVD
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Germany 28 Months After V-Day (1947)
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Click HERE to watch an excerpt from this movie on YouTube
Click HERE to watch an excerpt from this movie on YouTube
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.
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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.
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Films added on 12-22-2009:
1932-Adolf Hitler- Wahlkampfrede In Eberswalde Am 27 Juli 1932 (12m 48s)
1932-Hitlerjugend In Den Bergen (20m 15s)
1932-Zinsknechtschaft- EinTonfilm Im Auftrage Der Nsdap (11m 42s)
1933-Adolf Hitler- Rede An Die Sa Und Ss maenner Im Berliner Sportpalast Am 8 Apri (l5m 03s)
1933-Adolf Hitler Regierungserklaerung Am 17 Mai Im Deutschen Reichstag (8m 45s)
1933-Bildbericht Der Nsdap- Schutzhaftlager Rossplatzkaserne In Halle (10m 26s)
1933-Der Fuehrer Spricht Im Berliner Sportpalast Am 10 Februar 1933 (38m 13s)
1933-Der Sieg Des Glaubens- Reichsparteitag 1933 (1h 01m)
1933-Deutschland Erwacht- Ein Dokument Von Der Wiedergeburt Deutschlands (54m 14s)
1933-Die Nuernberger Reichsparteitage Der Nsdap Aus DenJahren 1927 1929 Und 1933 (1h 26m 52s)
1933-Filmaufnahme Vom Tag Der Machtergreifung Am 30 Januar (2m 47s)
1933-Fritz Todt- Zum Bau Der Reichsautobahnen (1m 42s)
1933-Fuer Uns- Zum Appell (13m 26s)
1933-Hans Westmar- Einer Von Vielen (1h 32m 13s)
1933-Hitlerjunge Quex (1h 27m 52s)
1933-Joseph Goebbels Spricht Als Vorredner Adolf Hitlers Am 10 Februar 1933 Im Berliner Sportpalast (8m 24s)
1933-Landesbildstelle Der Nsdap- Bilder Vom Wahlkampf 1932-1933 (19m 55s)
1933-Parteitag Der Nsdap- Sondersendung Der Fox-Wochenschau (6m 16s)
1934-Die Reiter Von Deutsch-Ostafrika- Unter Der Schirmherrschaft Des Reichskolonialbundes (1h 17m 40s)
1934-Ich Fuer Dich-Du Fuer Mich (1h 24m 16s)
1935-Adolf Hitler- Rede Am 15 September Zu Den Nuernberger Gesetzen (1m 34s)
1935-DieJahrhundertfeier Der Deutschen Eisenbahnen (20m 02s)
1935-Ein Dorf Im Roten Sturm- Friesennot (1h 29m 51s)
1935-Gaubildstelle Der Nsdap-Halle- Ein BesuchImJungvolklager Bei Haym (10m 49s)
1935-Haende Am Werk- Ein Lied Von Deutscher Arbeit (47m 50s)
1936-Der Fuehrer Besichtigt Die Leibstandarte- Auszug Vom Reichsparteitag (5m 19s)
1936-Der Fuehrer Eroeffnet Das Winterhilfswerk (3m 26s)
1936-Die Stadt Der Sieben Tuerme- Seestadt Rostock (14m 21s)
1936-Drei Jahre Adolf Hitlerfalsche- (4m 49s) English Undertitles
1936-Echo Der Heimat- Folge 3 (27m 00s)
1936-Echo Der Heimat- Folge 4 (25m 13s)
1936-Ehre Der Arbeit (27m 00s) English Undertitles
1936-German 1st TV Broadcasting (01m 04s)
1939-Das Wort Aus Stein (18m 26s)
1939-Deutsche Freiwillige In Spanien- Vom Kampf Der Legion Condor (14m 46s)
1939-Deutsches Land In Afrika (1h 08m 47s)
1939-Die Marine-Hauptfilm Und Bildstelle Zeigt- Die Danziger Bucht Wieder Deutsch (22m 02s)
1939-Eine Batterie GehtIn Stellung (11m 41s)
1939-Fahrende Stadt- Dresden (11m 18s)
1939-Fallschirmjaeger- Trainingsfilm (14m 41s)
1939-Glaube Und Schoenheit (15m 29s)
1939-Im Kampf Gegen Den Weltfeind- Deutsche Freiwillige In Spanien (1h 23m 56s)
1939-MaedelIm Landjahr- 1 Teil (23m 28s)
1939-Reichsarbeitsdienst- 1 Teil (23m 41s)
1939-Schicksalswende- Bericht Ueber Den Wiederanschluss (14m 01s)
1939-Sudeten-Deutschland Kehrt Heim- Sonderdienst Der Tobis-Wochenschau (29m 10s)
1939-Ufa Kulturfilm-Parade- Vorbereitungen Und Ablauf Zum 20 April (19m 01s)
1939-Wagen Nr.1 Erkaempft Sich Seinen Weg- Ueber Einen ArztIm Ausseneinsatz (13m 43s)
1940-Der Marsch Zum Fuehrer (45m 13s)
1940-Feuertaufe- Der Film Vom Einsatz Unserer Luftwaffe In Polen (1h 30m 51s)
1940-Psst- Feind Hoert Mit Vorsicht Bei Gespraechen - Der SpionIm Zug (6m 01s)
1940-Psst- Feind Hoert Mit Vorsicht Bei Gespraechen - Im Cafe (54s)
1940-Ueber Alles In Der Welt (1h 14m 42s)
1940- Walter Ruttmann- Deutsche Panzer (7m 91s)
1941-Ausser Gefahr (24m 37s)
1941-Carl Peters (1h 49m 37s)
1941-Die Frontschau Nr.02- Lehrfilm - Russischer Stellungsbau (15m 02s)
1941-Die Frontschau Nr.03- Lehrfilm - VormarschIm Besetzten Gebiet (14m 52s)
1941-Die Frontschau Nr.04- Lehrfilm - Infanterie Im Angriff (10m 44s)
1941-Die Frontschau Nr.05-06- Lehrfilm - Gebirgsjaeger Im Kampf Um Eine Ortschaft (27m 20s)
1941-Die Frontschau Nr.07- Lehrfilm - Angriff Von Infanterie Und Panzern Gegen Eine Ortschaft (14m 34s)
1941-Die Frontschau Nr.08- Lehrfilm - Der Abwehrkampf Im Winter (16m 08s)
1941-Die Frontschau Nr.09-10- Lehrfilm - Stellungs Und Unterkunftbau (23m 58s)
1941-Die Hermann Goering Werke Bauen In Watenstedt 1939-1941 (32m 55s)
1941-Ernst Udet- Ein Fliegerleben-Ein Heldenleben (14m 39s)
1941-Flieger Am Feind- Aufklaerer Bomber Und Jaeger Gegen England (11m 57s)
Last update: January-22-2010
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