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Hitler's Assistants - Göring the Second Man

Documentary film that deals with Herman Goring (1893-1946) one of the heads of the Nazi regime, Reichsmarshal and commander of Hitler's air force. The film surveys his activity in the party and the Nazi leadership, his service as a pilot in the First World War, his various roles, his relations with Hitler, his family, his place in the annihilation of the Jews and others, his failure in the battle over Stalingrad, his arrest, being brought to justice at Nuremberg and his suicide.

Director : Guido Knopp

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 42 45

Language : German

Hitler's Mona Lisa

A doumentary film. The Nazis plundered cultural property from every territory they occupied. This was conducted in a systematic manner with organisations specifically created to determine which public and private collections were most valuable to the Nazi regime. As the Allied forces bombed Germany’s cities and historic institutions, the Nazis began storing the stolen artworks in salt mines and caves for protection from Allied bombing raids. One of these salt mines was in Altaussee in Austria. As the Allied troops approached the salt mine, Gauleiter August Eigruber gave orders to blow it up. The destruction...

Director : Petra Dorrmann, André Schäfer

Production Year : 2013

Duration : 52

Language : English, German

Based on Guy Konopnicki's novel, Pas de Kaddish pour Sylberstein, this French crime film, set during the time of the Gulf War, deals with Paris detective (singer Patrick Bruel) who investigates case that combines murder, blackmail and art stolen by Nazis from French Jews.

Director : Alexandre Arcady

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 114

Language : French

The spoils

A documentary. An exhibition conceived to redress the tragic history of a Jewish art dealer forced to escape Germany sparked a scandal rife with legal battles and accusations, exposing the political and moral crisis surrounding the return of artworks stolen during the scond world war.

Director : Jamie Kastner

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 105

Language : English, German

The life and times of a Nazi art thief - part 2

A mini documentary series. It unpacks the decades-spanning crimes of Bruno Lohse. In 1939, the Nazis commenced the century’s most sprawling art theft. As Hitler’s armies swept across Europe so did they begin snatching up art and objects from Jewish homes, galleries, museums, and private collections. A depot was set up by the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (ERR) at the Jeu de Paume in Paris to receive these works; over four years, it saw the delivery of more than 21,900 artworks. This entire operation of plunder, said historian Jonathan Petropoulos, was carried out with “industrial efficiency.”

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 55

Language : English

The life and times of a Nazi art thief - part 1

Director : Hugo Macgregor

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 118

Language : English

Auction

A feature film. The film follows a art appraiser who works for an auction house. As boldly assured in his professional expertise as he is unflaggingly cool and collected with his colleagues his routine is unexpectedly disrupted by the discovery of a long-lost work by Egon Schiele, a masterwork that had gone missing decades earlier following its confiscation by Nazi officials. Initially skeptical that any such undiscovered painting could still be recovered, he is convinced of its authenticity. Based on the true story of Egon Schiele's painting "Wlted sunflowers"

Director : Pascal Bonitzer

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 91

Language : English, French, German

The Last Vermeer

A feature film.Whilw a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, Han van Meegeren was hosting soirées and selling Dutch art treasures to Hermann Goring and other top Nazis. Following the war, the J ew becomes an investigator assigned the task of identifying and redistributing stolen art, resulting in the flamboyant van Meegeren being accused of collaboration , a crime punishable by death. But, despite mounting evidence the investigator, with the aid of his assistant , becomes increasingly convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the position of fighting to save his...

Director : Dan Friedkin

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 118

Language : English

DER MALER OTTO PANKOK IN DER EIFEL 1942-1946

סרט תיעודי.

Director : Dietrich Schubert

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 64

Language : German

The Man who Saved the Louvre

A documentary film. At the dawn of World War II, a resistance group organizes an incredible exfiltration of masterpieces from the Louvre Museum to save it off the Nazis’ hands. The man leading the operation is Jacques Jaujard, museum’s director, using his knowledge of the system and his audacity to serve a universal cause: saving the world heritage.

Director : Pierre Pochart, Jean-Pierre Devillers

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 60

Language : English

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