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Heinrich Himmler's three-and-a-half-hour-long "Posen Speech" to ninety-two SS generals in the Golden Hall of Posen Castle (Poland) on the occasion of the SS Group Leader's conference on the fourth of October, 1943 is "one of the most terrifying documents of German language". On the other, it is one of the most important documents of National-Socialism. Actor Manfred Zapatka reads the entire speech, employing the authentic text which was reconstructed from the original sound recording. The film was shot in one day, using four cameras in a studio.

Director : Romuald Karmakar

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 182

Language : German

Dead Men's Secrets - Plotting to Kill Hitler

The program discovers how the course of history could have been so different if the first plot to kill Adolf Hitler, in 1939, had been successful. But Hitler proved a hard man to kill. This documentary reviews the many attempts on his life, and analyzes what went wrong.

Director : Jonathan Martin

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 44

Language : English

March of the Liberators

The film presents a new light on scenes of World War II and the role it played in the outbreak of Stalin's policy. Braun, using many previously unknown to the public materials from Russian archives, based inter alia on the relationship of the former GRU officer, Viktor Suvorov, presents a number of evidence that the Soviets are at least co-responsible for the outbreak of war. But this is not the end The director clearly suggests that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Soviet seizure of eastern Polish territories and the Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova would be only a prelude to Stalin's attack...

Director : Grzegorz Braun

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 57

Language : Polish

Swastika

A documentary. The Nazification of Germany from 1933 to 1945 told through a compilation of Nazi footage, newsreels, propaganda films and Eva Braun's home movies.This documentary shows also the private face of Hitler through Eva Braun's home movies, contrasted with newsreels from the Nazi era to present an extraordinary pictorial record of the regime.

Director : Philippe Mora

Production Year : 1973

Duration : 113

Language : English

Beyond Hitler's Grasp

Documentary film showing the struggle in Bulgaria under the Nazi occupation. At the end of WW2 there were 49,172 Jews. At the start of the war there were 48,565 Jews. Bulgaria was the only country in Hitler's Europe that had more Jews at the end of the war than at the beginning. The film explains how this happened. The flood of support against the Nuremberg laws, the Bulgarians who fought against the rulers, Parliament preventing sending the Jews to their deaths, the Church protecting the lives of Jews. Ultimately it was the people who caused the king of Bulgaria to change his policy towards the Jews. ...

Director : Nitsan Aviram

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 66

Language : English, Hebrew

The Mortal Storm

A feature film. This movie was one of the earliest to examine how a society can be swept off their feet by a fascist regime. Freya Roth is the daughter of a preeminent Jewish science professor and an aristocratic German mother. She has one younger brother and two elder, full-blooded German half-brothers. An outwardly anti-Nazi film released a year before the United States entered World War II, The film was a damning indictment. MGM, the production company, worried that the movie would negatively affect their German audiences, avoided mentioning “Germany” as much as possible, and outright refused to identify...

Director : Frank Borzage

Production Year : 1940

Duration : 100

Snide & Prejudice

A feature film and a comedy. At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe that they are important Nazi figures to act out their fantasies. The therapy sessions show Hitler consolidating his power by assembling his gang of supporters/ They are interrupted at times, because a patient who believes he is Picasso interrupts a session.

Director : Philippe Mora

Production Year : 1997

Duration : 121

Language : English

Hatred

This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred between nations. Is there a connection between the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time? The filmmaker's father was a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939. The film opens with their return to his birthplace in east Germany. For the first time, the filmmaker understands what it must be like to have been the object of hatred, as she watches her father's reaction to the places of his childhood. Returning to...

Director : Mitzi Goldman

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 55

Language : English, German

The World At War, Special Presentation - The Two Deaths Of Adolph Hitler

Special presentation of "The World at War", documentary series that presents a definitive and deep overview at WWII. This episode investigates the suicide of Adolf Hitler and discusses conflicting theories on his death. Did he shoot himself or did he swallow cyanide? The film features interviews with people near the bunker where Hitler and Eva Braun took their lives. The autopsy reports are reviewed by the Russian doctors who made them and historians offer their opinions.

Director : Martin Smith

Duration : 47

Language : English, German, Russian

The Hidden Fuhrer: Debating The Enigma Of Hitler's Sexuality

A documentary based on the 2001 book "The Hidden Hitler". The book, by German Professor Lothar Machtan, argues that Hitler - who was responsible for one of the worst campaigns of anti-gay persecution in history - may have been homosexsual himself and that his desire to keep it a secret motivated many of his actions. This film details Machtan's theory which most mainstream historians and surviving eyewitnesses dispute. Interviews in the documentary include those with: Lothar Machtan, author of "The Hidden Hitler" Geoffrey Giles, author of a study of gays in the Nazi party Brigitte...

Director : Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Gabriel Rotello

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 90

Language : English

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