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Living in Enemy Skin - Hitler Jugend Salomon

Director : Andrzej J. Koszyk

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 57

Language : German

Ohm Kruger

Anti-British Nazi drama

Director : Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch

Production Year : 1941

Duration : 125

Language : German

Kolberg

Nazi lavish historical drama that was one of the central propaganda efforts of the 3rd Reich film industry. Made in 1943-1944, "Kolberg" intended to counter the Germans' war-weariness and encourage optimistic spirit. The story is loosely based on the events that took place in Kolberg, the small town on the Prussian Baltic coast whose inhabitants raised a people's militia against Napoleon's invading forces in 1806-07 at a time when the army was ready to surrender. The film's two heroes are Nettelbeck, Kolberg's Mayor, and Gneisenau, the leader of the Prussian soldiers. Despite the corruption of the local...

Director : Veit Harlan, Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Production Year : 1945

Duration : 108

Language : German

Star Trek ? Patterns Of Force (2nd Season, Episode 52)

Episode 52 in the popular 60s science fiction TV series that was aired on 16 February 1968. Investigating the disappearance of a Federation historian John Gill, the Enterprise crew finds out that the missing scientist has turned the planet Ekos into a national socialistic state, similar to Nazi Germany, and that he himself is, in fact, the Fuhrer.

Director : Vincent Mceveety

Production Year : 1968

Duration : 50

Language : English

The Hitler Youth - Dedication

Episode in the documentary series produced by the German ZDF Network, dealing with the Hitler Youth Movement.

Director : Guido Knopp, Christian Deick, Mahnas Rassapur

Production Year : 1999

Language : English, German

Hitler's Children

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

The Adventures of Werner Holt

Based on Dieter Noll’s novel, this political DEFA drama tells of a two of 17 year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, who are pulled out of school and conscripted into Hitler's army. Gilbert is a fanatical soldier, while Werner begins to realize the senselessness of the war at the front and leaves his friend. But when the SS hangs Gilbert, Werner turns his gun on his own army. The film frankness about the toll war takes on youth generated much public resonance at its time.

Director : Joachim Kunert

Production Year : 1965

Duration : 163

Language : German

Bismarck

Made in Nazi Germany, this state-produced drama selectively recounts the life story of Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prime Minister of Prussia who unified Germany with a series of successful wars and became the first Chancellor.

Director : Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Production Year : 1940

Duration : 118

Language : German

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