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Hitler’s Assistants - Speer the Architect

Documentary film about Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and his minister of armament in the years 1942-1945. The film surveys Speer's path in the Nazi party, his post as architect and afterwards as minister of armament, buildings he planned, his relations with Hitler, his place among the Nazi criminals. Includes archival films, testimonies and a computer simulation.

Director : Guido Knopp

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 41

Language : German

Reputations - Albert Speer, The Nazi Who Said Sorry

This documentary tells the story of Albert Speer (1905-1981), the Minister of Military Production in the Third Reich and Hitler's architect and close friend. Including commentaries, archival materials, interview with Speer.

Director : Martin Davidson

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 59

Language : English

The Architects

This DEFA drama presents a somber portrait of life in East Berlin in the final days of the Communist regime. Shot from moving cars, panning shots of the city's ugly, factory-like public housing explore a joyless where people live in a state of chronic depression. Like many others of that generation, Daniel Brenner, an idealistic architect in his late 30s is frustrated by life under the old regime but somehow tolerates it. Hired to design a miniature city on the fringes of Berlin, he fools himself into thinking that he can counteract the prevailing gloom with a cheerier, more innovative approach. Working with a...

Director : Peter Kahane

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 97

Language : German

Rosenstrasse

A drama about a less known chapter in the history of the Third Reich. The struggle of the women married to Jews who tried to prevent their husbands from being sent to work at the Jewish Community Facilities in 1943.

Director : Margarethe Von Trotta

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 136

Language : German

Fascination and Terror: Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds

סרט תדמית העוסק ב- Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände, תערוכה המוצגת במוזיאון העיר נירנברג (Nürnberg) הממוקם באגף הצפוני של היכל קונגרסים אשר תוכנן ע"י הנאצים אך מעולם לא הושלם. בקומה העליונה אשר גודלה כ- 1,300 מטרים מרובעים מוצגת תערוכה קבועה - פסינציה וטרור (Faszination und Gewalt) - העוסקת בעריצות הנאצית מן הזווית הנוגעת לנירנברג; ההיסטוריה של ועידות המפלגה הנאצית, בנייני הועידות הנאציות, חוקי נירנברג, משפטי נירנברג וקשיי הטיפול במורשת הארכיטקטורה הנאצית. כולל סרטי ארכיון.

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 12

Language : English, German

Berlin as it was

A documentary portrait of the pre-war Berlin, capital of the Third Reich. This film was finished before the outbreak of WWII, but was not shown publicly until 1950.

Director : Leo De Laforgue

Production Year : 1950

Duration : 87

Language : German

The Big Synagogue in Budapest

Director : József Kaposvári

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 59

Language : Hungarian

What is the Color of War? - Part 2

Excerpts from archival films in color that document scenese of liberation and victory in Europe in the months April-May 1945: US Army forces, ruins, liberation of Dachau, local population, German prisoners of war, celebrating VE Day in Paris and London, Hitler's "Eagles Nest" bombed, the bombed entry to "The Fuhrer's Bunker", Berlin in the last days of the war.

Director : Michael Kloft

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 94

Language : German

German Newsreels no. 578 (1/10/41), 579 (8/10/41

Newsreel no. 578 (1 October, 1941): German transports in Petsamo, Finland's northernmost port. General Dietl, Hero of Narvik, with his troops. Daring invasion of the islands of Oesel (Saaremaa) and moon (Muhu) in the gulf of Riga; detonating mines; German aviators' bombs smash coast defenses; the old Teutonic fortress in Arensburg, the capital of Oesel. Krasnpodaisk Palace, summer residence of the czars. German forces converge on Leningrad from all directions as the yoke around the city is tightened. German bombers attack. General von Brauchitsch and General Weichs. Railroad engineer units work behind the...

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 61

Language : English, German

World War Two: The Lost Color Archives - A New World Order

Collection of archival films in color from the period between 1937 and December 1941. Among other material (see additional info): Nazi demonstrations, scenes from the Spanish Civil War, meeting between Lloyd George and Hitler, crowning of George VI, German art festival in Munich, annual sport march in Moscow, British children in emergency exercises, British soldiers' march, German forces in France, destruction of the Blitz in England, Hitler and senior Nazis in "the Eagles Nest", Operation Barbarossa, Hitler on a visit on the eastern front, German soldiers in the snow, Pearl Harbor after Japanse attack.

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 47

Language : English

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