In mid-November 1943, the French Vichy police arrested 23 Resistance members of the "Manouchian Group", called after its commander, Missak Manouchian. 11 of them were Jews. On 21.2.1944, after 3 months of tortures, the 23 were tried and executed. In the spring of 1944, the Vichy and German authorities printed an estimated 15,000 copies of a propaganda poster called Affiche Rouge ("Red Poster") which claimed that the resistance was headed by foreigners, Jews, unemployed people and criminals who conspirated against French life and the sovereignty of France. The campaign, however, seemd to have had the opposite...
סידרה תיעודית על מלחמת העולם השנייה , לראשונה בצבע. כוחות אמריקניים בגרמניה גילו את מחנה הריכוז בוכנוולד/Buchenwald , ובעלות הברית התחילו להתמודד עם המציאות המזוויעה של השואה.
A Docmentary film by Rüdiger Suchsland, Suchsland examinest German Cinema in the Age of Propaganda 1933 – 1945
The Question is Nazi cinema of the Third Reich reveals about its period and its people? How do these films, including their myths, their stories, their open lies and hidden truths, affect the future of the history of German cinema?
The propagandistic feature film deals with activities of the Soviet secret police. The young Baltic German Olga Feodorowna is longing for revenge for the murder of her family by the Soviets and becomes a double agent. The film is severely anti-communist, anti-Soviet and anti-Semitic as it imagines the Soviet Union to be run by conspiratorial Jewish Communists.