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Living in Enemy Skin - Hitler Jugend Salomon

Director : Andrzej J. Koszyk

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 57

Language : German

Very important although for TV only made, adaptation of the Jozef Rembek's novel about Polish policeman who collaborated during WWII with the nazis in holocaust. Terrific performance of Miroslaw Baka is strongest side of this dark and upsetting film. must see based on the novel by Stanislaw Rembek television film, is a shocking and penetrating study of collaboration during the war. This is a moving story of a policeman in a small town, excellently played by Miroslaw Baka, whose values are simple Ð you have to must see based on the novel by Stanislaw Rembek television film, is a shocking and penetrating...

Director : Andrzej Wajda

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 96

Language : Polish

Home into the Reich: The Failed Annexation of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg by the Third Reich

Nazi Germany occupied the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg from 1940 to 1944, with the intention of returning Luxembourg to its so-called German roots. Paradoxically, this attempt to incorporate Luxembourg into the Third Reich triggered the nation's self-awareness. Using mostly unseen archive footage, the film tells the story of the clash between ideologies: the Nazi vision of a 'German' Luxembourg, colliding violently with the idea of an independent Grand Duchy. For a people who where becoming aware of their national identity, this was a huge cultural shock. The emotional backbone of the film rests on the many...

Director : Claude Lahr

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 120

Language : French, German

German Newsreels no. 553 (9/4/41), 554 (16/4/41).

German Newsreel no. 553 (9 April, 1941): The Munich state funeral of general Waldman; general Fromm lays the Fuehrer's wreath. Prague marks the second anniversary of Bohemia and Moravia's founding with the presence of Protector Neurath, gauleiter Henlein, party leader Rosenberg, undersecretary Hans Frank, president Hacha. President Tiso reviews Slovak army parade in Pressburg; former Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria is also present. Oil drilling in the General Government. Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) resettle from Bessarabia. Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) flee Yugoslavia. Female draftees go to work at...

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 48

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 534 (28/11/40), 536 (20/12/40).

Newsreel no. 534 (28 November, 1940): Devastating Romanian earthquake prompts German aid; King Michael visits the disaster area. Mussolini tours the arms plant in Terni, central Italy. The Italian front lines in North Africa. Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) depart Bessarabia for Fatherland. Foreign Minister of Spain Suner and Foreign Minister of Italy Ciano visit Hitler at Berchtesgaden; they meet with Field Marshal Keitel, ambassador Mackensen, Foreign Minister Ribbentrop. Hitler and Ribbentrop attend ceremony at Belvedere Palace in Vienna as Hungary joins Tripartite Pact; Hungarian Premier Teleki is...

Production Year : 1940

Duration : 43

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 520 (23/8/40), 524 (18/9/40).

Newsreel no. 520 (23 August 1940): 28th German east trade fair in Koenigsberg attracts hundreds of thousands. Chemical fertilizers - Germany's indispensable weapon. Salvaging wrecked vehicles from western campaign. Strength through joy sponsors soldiers factory tour. Arms workers see their products in action. German flak batteries deter enemy bombing raids. Field Marshal von Brauchitsch visits wounded soldiers. Hitler awards Field Marshals with jeweled scepters. Italian bombing raids open campaign against British Somalia. Testing new long-range artillery. Luftwaffe steps up bombing raids against Britain...

Production Year : 1940

Duration : 46

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no.491 (31/1/40), 492 (7/2/40), 496 (6/3/40).

Newsreel no. 491 (31January, 1940): The hard winter continues - Holland frozen canals spell disaster for shipping; Icebreakers in action; An airlift provisions marooned islanders. German sport - ski instruction for Hitler Jugend from Sudetenland. Hitler Jugend boys from Sudetenland. Herber and Baier, world-champion German pair skaters, perform for troops. Industrial scenes - new coal liquefaction complex promises thousands of new jobs, while making Germany "largely independent of gasoline imports". On frontier separating German and Russian "spheres of influence", Russian oil is loaded for shipment to...

Production Year : 1940

Duration : 49 50

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 482 (29/11/39), 483 (6/12/39), 488 (10/1/39).

Newsreel no. 482 (29 November, 1939): Public Service Announcement on trusting the government. Japanese military maneuvers; Combat training in the shadows of mount Fuji; German home front scenes - drills and target practice for the Hitler Jugend (synchronous sound); Government nurseries provide day care for working mothers; State modernization of hog-raising; Young women volunteer for new farm labor camps opened in the east; Military scenes - the role played by horses, even in a highly mechanized Wehrmacht; The importance of the army press to soldiers on the front; Inspector-General Dr. Todt reviews...

Production Year : 1939

Duration : 54 55

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 474 (4/10/39), 477 (25/10/39), 480 (14/11/39).

Newsreel no. 474 (4 October, 1939): Public Service Announcement on blacking out lights. In Berlin, General von Brauchitsch and Field Marshals von Mackensen and Goering preside over the military funeral of General Fritsch, slain near Moscow; Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop Flies to Moscow to finalize the Russian-German alliance and the partition of Poland; A map shows the demarcation line; Hitler Jugend boys practice putting out air-raid fires, help dig root corps, while BDM (German Girls League) girls bring flowers to wounded soldiers; In agriculture, as in sports, it is "business as usual"; Occupation...

Production Year : 1939

Duration : 53

Language : English, German

German Newsreels no. 471 (14/9/39), 472 (20/9/39), 473 (27/9/39).

Newsreel no. 471 (14 September, 1939): At Berlin's Rheinmetall Borsig Works field Marshal Hermann Goering enjoins a crowd of factory workers to display their loyalty to the Fuehrer. German infantry advances ever deeper into Poland, troops round up civilian prisoners, including Polish Jews, and insurgents are taken to large camps. Footage shows worshipping German soldiers exiting the Jasna Gora Church, belying Allied claims that Germans had destroyed it. German tanks cross bridges repaired by combat engineers. Stukas deliver long rolls of surveillance film, which are developed and studied in the field....

Production Year : 1939

Duration : 55

Language : English, German

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