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Nazi propaganda film based on films that were filmed by propaganda filmmakers of Nazi Germany and deals with the war against the lowland countries and France in May-June 1940. The film is comprised of two parts: an introductory part ("Towards Decision") that describes the background of the outbreak of World War II and preparations for the operation, and the main part ("The Campaign"), that glorifies the swift victories of the German army at the first stages of the war.

Director : Sven Noldan, Fritz Brunsch, Werner Kortwich

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 120

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 753 (5/3/45), 754 (16/3/45), 755 (22/3/45).

German Newsreel no. 753 (5 March, 1945): German Ambassador in Stockholm congratulates Swedish explorer Sven Hedin on his 80th birthday. Reich Labor Service Leader Hierl speaks with Labor Service Women and decorates Labor Service officer. Colonel Rudel interviewed in hospital (synchronous sound). In Berlin, Volkssturm and civilians build defensive installations. Submarine with snorkel sinks ship. Western Front: positions on the Rur (Roer); from the ruins of houses, mortars and other artillery fire; near Juelich, infantry and paratroopers counterattack. First pictures of soldiers after breaking out of...

Production Year : 1945

Duration : 37 38

Language : German

German Newsreels no. 750 (25/1/45), 751 (10/2/45), 752 (17/2/45).

German Newsreel no. 750 (25 January, 1945): Public service announcement uses trick drawings to urge people to save electricity by turning off unnecessary lights. Two soldier amputees ski down a mountain. Volkssturm members receive clothing and equipment, and practice with adhesive charges, Panzerfaust, Panzerschreck, and flamethrower. In the Dutch combat area, Navy men blow up bridge by jumping out of speedboats carrying explosive charges to target. In town near Western Front, life continues underground: kitchens, archives, town administration, print shop, power plant, newspaper, barber; miners changing...

Production Year : 1945

Duration : 30 33

Language : German

What is the Color of War? - Part 1

Excerpts from archival films in color that document scenes in Europe (mainly Germany) of the end of the war in the months March-April 1945: ruins after bombings, US Army forces, local population, liberation of Buchenwald, German prisoners of war.

Director : Michael Kloft

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 94

Language : German

German Newsreels no. 702 (16/2/44), 703 (23/2/44).

Newsreel no. 702 (16 February, 1944): Goethe Medal winner artist Paul Hermann at work. Skiing championship of the Air Command at Zell am See, including slalom, cross-country, and downhill. The Langemarck Program in Heidelberg, where soldiers on leave and workers can earn a high-school degree. Female members of the Reich Labor Service shown working on a streetcar in a military hospital, and in a defense plant. Goebbels decorates Berliners who distinguished themselves in the Berlin civil defense against bombings, including District Administrative Director Schach and Police President Helldorf. Ley gives the...

Production Year : 1944

Duration : 35 36

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 505 (8/5/40), 506 (15/5/40).

Newsreel no. 505 (8 May, 1940): Public service announcement on enemy lies and demagogy. (3 min) The May First meeting of Reich Labor Chamber takes place at Krupp complex in Essen; Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess lauds German Socialism, singling out for praise exemplary National Socialist businesses. Scrap metal reprocessing - extracting copper for war effort. Giant silos throughout Reich store Germany's strategic grain reserves. German coal en route to Italy by train - throwing Britain's naval blockade by rerouting across the land. Western front - German forces strike deep into enemy territory, destroying...

Production Year : 1940

Duration : 37 52

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 459 (21/6/39), 468 (23/8/39), 470 (7/9/39).

Newsreel no. 459 (21 June, 1939): Archival footage from 1919 shows German Imperial Navy en route to scuttling at Scapa Flow; 20 years later, reborn German fleet displays readiness on high seas. Two submarines, American and British, are crippled in separate accidents at sea. At French air show, a Fokker Jungmeister and its daredevil French pilot stage acrobatic stunts. In Rome, 20,000 sailors march before King Emmanuel and Mussolini. German gymnasts stage an "impressive display" of physical training for military and diplomatic dignitaries. A cultural festival in mostly German Danzig becomes a major protest...

Production Year : 1939

Duration : 53

Language : English, German

Great Blunders of World War Two - At Dunkirk, Part 1

Four documentary films (and 2 bonus films) that deal with the tactical military errors in WWII. The films are based on archival photographs and films and also include graphic color maps. This part deals with Dunkirk, Pearl Harbor, the blitz of England, the air war, Battle of the Bulge, Operation Market Garden - a failed effort of the allies to capture bridges in Holland in order to open a northern route for a swift advance into Germany.

Director : Jonathan Martin

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 88

Language : English

Polish Jews

Collection of films based on archival films dealing with the Jews of Poland.

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 95

Language : English, Hebrew, Italian, Yiddish

Hitler's Holocaust - Ghetto

Third episode in a documentary series produced by the German television network ZDF that deals with the destruction of Europe's Jews. The 6-part series surveys the process that led to "The Final Solution" and the ways it was executed through archival films that were discovered in archives in Eastern Europe, testimonies, and analysis of historians. The series title Holokaust is written intentionally with the letter K instead of C, in accordance with German script in order to remind viewers that the murder of Europe's Jews was carried out by the Germans. This episode deals with the ghettos of Eastern Europe and...

Director : Maurice Philip Remy

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 43

Language : German

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