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Berlin - Paris, Die Geschichte der Beate Klarsfeld

A Documentary film. Brunhilde Pomsel always described herself as just being a side-line figure and not at all interested in politics. Aged 105, Pomsel used to work as secretary, stenographer and typist for the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Pomsel’s life mirrors the major historical ruptures of the 20th century and German life thereafter. The film forces viewers to ask themselves what they would have done and whether they would have sacrificed any possible moral principles in order to advance their own careers.

Director : Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer, Florian Weigensamer

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 113

Language : English, German

Great Conductors of the Third Reich: Art in the Service of Evil

This production features actual newsreal footage — Hitler himself is caught weeping on camera — of concerts led by conductors Bצhm, Furtwהngler, Karajan, Knappertsbusch, and Krauss during the Third Reich. Determined to present an image of culture, the Nazis were known to turn their art into propaganda; conductors being no exception. Great Conductors of the Third Reich highlights some of the most blatant examples of art not in the face, but rather in the service of evil.

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 53

GDR and Hitler's Secret Bunker

This Spiegel TV documentary reconstructs the dramatic events of Adolf Hitler’s final 10 days in his bunker installed deep below the Berlin Chancellery of the Reich and tries to answer several questions: whether at this point Hitler was in a mental wreck, waiting for the arrival of troops that no longer existed? Did he shoot himself or did his loyal servant give him a poison capsule? Did Magda Goebbels put her children to death herself, or did a physician perform this terrible act on her behalf? Director Michael Kloft interviews here the last remaining contemporaries of the day, including former Wehrmacht...

Director : Michael Kloft

Production Year : 2005

Language : German

Moloch

Drama taking place in 1942, in the house of an isolated village in Bavaria, Germany, showing a weekend in the private life of Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, Martin Bormann and others. Hitler is portrayed here as an average unintellectual man. A man with childish tendencies who loves to dance to music, make distasteful comments during dinner, go on walks and relieve himself outside, a fanatic and a hypochondriac. On his table is a notebook with drawings and poems that he has attempted to compose. Hitler's acts of destruction against the Jews are not shown in the film.

Director : Aleksandr Sokurov

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 108

Language : German

The Book Burning

A documentary film employing archival footage of the Berlin book burning accompanied by a sound-track of Goebbels' inflammatory speech made as the books are thrown into the flames.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 2

Language : German

Days That Shook the world - Kristallnacht

Documentary series, dealing with crucial days and events of the 20th century. Each chapter presents archive material and dramatic reenacments. Based on eye-testimonies and archive materials, this episode presents a dramatized account of the events of November 9th, 1938, a night that changed the life of the Jews in Germany and came to known as a turning point in Hitler's persecution of the Jews. Gangs of Nazi youths roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows and burning and looting synagogues. Many Jews were attacked and 91 died.

Director : Nic Young

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 30

Language : English, German

Führer and Seducer

A docu-drama. this film is a deconstruction of Joseph Goebbles's propaganda machine. While Hitler is at the height of his power, Joseph Goebbels serves as the mastermind behind the images, speeches, and films that prepared the German people for the the mass murder of Jews. When the war is lost, Geobbels stages his last scene - the murder of his family and his own suicide in the Berlin bunker. Seven Holocaust survivors share thier exeperiences with Hitler's and Goebbels' actions throughout thefilm.

Director : Joachim A. Lang

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 123

Language : German

Riefenstahl

A documentary. Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century as an artist and a Nazi propagandist. Her films "Triumph of the will" and "Olympiatand for perfectly staged body worship and the celebration of the superior and victorious. At the same time, these images project contempt for the imperfect and weak. Riefenstahl's aesthetics are more present than ever today - but is that also true for their implied message? The film examines this question using documents from Riefenstahl's estate, including private films, photos, recordings and letters. It uncovers fragments of...

Director : Andres Veiel

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 115

Language : English, German

A German Life

A documentary film. based on real interviews with Brunhilde Pomsel who in 2016 (at the age of 105) revealed her story: of how she worked as a secretary in Berlin during the 1930-40s – at first, for a Jewish insurance broker, then for the German Broadcasting Corporation and finally for Joseph Goebbels. The text is a condensed account of her life and stories about being German – before, during and after WWII –, about the Nazis and ordinary people.

Director : Jonathan Kent

Hitlers Circle of Evil - Episode 9 Beginning of the End מעגל הרשע של היטלר - פרק 9 - תחילת הסוף

A docu-drama television reries. Episode 9: As the war fails, the inner circle responds with strategies to save itself, from plotting the Führer's assassination to negotiating with the Allies.

Director : Vicky Matthews

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 52

Language : English

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