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This propaganda piece starts in 1933. Prof. Nichols' American school in Berlin is next door to a school for the Hitler Youth. Karl, from the latter, is attracted to German-American Anna, but events lead to their separation. Later, at the outbreak of war in Europe, Anna is removed from Nichols' school on presumption of German citizenship. Nichols becomes obsessed with finding her, as Anna undergoes a rather lurid odyssey through the Nazi nightmare.

Director : Edward Dmytryk

Production Year : 1943

Duration : 82

Language : English

The Hitler Youth - War

This episode in ZDF’s 6-part documentary series looks at how youngsters in the Hitler Youth were trained as firefighters, industry workers, and messengers, and ultimately as fighting units. Praising loyalty, romantic views of battle, glory and heroic death, the Nazi education system toughen them up through encouragement of cruelty to animals and ruthlessness. Veterans comment here on the fanatacism and effectiveness of Hitler Youth regiments in the frontline battles in France and Belgium. Also discussed here is an incident in which the SS ordered local Hitler Youths to round up and execute some 50 or more...

Director : Ricarda Schlosshan, Sebastian Dehnhardt

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 60

Language : English, German

Timewatch: The Stolen Child

Tells the story of 200,000 Polish children stolen by the Nazis during World War II. They were taken to the Reich. The younger children were given over for adoption by Nazi families and the older ones went to Hitler Youth Camps or worked for German families as maids or farmhands. Those who did not fit were sent to concentration camps. The film focuses on the experiences of two cousins who were stolen on the same day. One was 4 years old and the other was 10. They both eventually returned to Poland but the experience marked them in different ways.

Director : Catrine Clay

Production Year : 1993

Language : English, German, Polish

Before the Fall (Napola)

This award winning drama set in Berlin 1942 and tells the story of a young factory worker whose boxing talent gets him into the National Political Academy (NaPolA), a high school that grooms young Germans for positions of power both at home and abroad using military techniques to encourage loyalty to the Hitler and conformity with Nazi ideology. Lured by promises of wealth and Olympic glory, Friedrich defies his Anti-Nazi father and is soon immersed in the school's brutal curriculum. Uniformed and eager, he and the other new cadets learn weaponry and anti-Semitism with equal punctiliousness. There is no time, or...

Director : Dennis Gansel

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 110

Language : German

Wir Sind Keine Dinosaurier-Jung und Juedisch in Deutschland

סרט תיעודי אודות נוער יהודי בגרמניה. הם הולכים לבית הספר, יש להם הרבה חברים, ומאשרים להם כל מה שקשור למוזיקה וריקודים. ליסה, אווה ו סמואל מדרום גרמניה הם צעירים שדתם היא יהודית. אנחנו פוגשים אותם פעם ראשונה בJEWROVISION , הפסטיבל הגדול של שירים וריקודים יהודיים. כאן הם מרגישים שהם לא אקזוטיים. בחיי היום-יום הם לא תמיד מרגישים את זה כך. הם מרגישים תסכול ואפילו הסגת גבול, הם לא רוצים להצטמצם רק עד לשואה ומרגישים כצעירים גרמנים בכלל לא אחראים בשביל הסכסוך הישראלי-פלסטינאי, אפילו שמדינת ישראל אומר להם הרבה. "אנחנו לא דינוזאורים-צעיר ויהודי בגרמניה" מתאר איך הם חיים, חושבים, מבטאים את דתם וכיצד הם רואים מסורת. מעל כל...

Director : Silke Stürmer, Stefan Adam

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 21

Language : German

Mit Büchern auf der Flucht

סרט תעודה העוסק בגורלם של ספרים בגרמנית , שלקחו עמם היהודים מגרמניה. מדובר בספרים

Director : Gerhard Schick, Miriam Jakobs

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 52

Language : English, German

What We Carry

First person accounts are the heart and soul of the unimaginable tragedy that is the Holocaust. But what happens when survivors are no longer alive to share their stories? Who will teach the lessons of the Holocaust to future generations so that truth can continue, questions can be asked, and history cannot be rewritten? "What We Carry" is an interactive presentation designed for Holocaust survivors’ stories to live on after they are no longer able to present them in person. The intent is to expand this into a platform for all survivors of genocide. Here's a glimpse of four stories of survival: Kitty Saks, David...

Director : Janice Engel

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 63

Language : English