Yad Vashem Collections - Movies

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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

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

Wofür es lohnte das leben zu wagen

סרט תיעודי קצר המורכב מחומרים מקוריים שצילם Helmut Machemer בזמן מלחמת העולם השנייה, בחזית המזרחית, באוקראינה, בין החודשים אוקטובר 1941 וחודש מאי 1942. ד"ר Machemer היה רופא גרמני ממוצא יהודי, שהתנדב לצבא הגרמני למרות שלא היה חייב בגיוס. הוא צילם את מראות ומוראות החזית הגרמנית. לו נתפס, היה נשלח למחנה ריכוז. הנאצים , ושר התעמולה יוזף גבלס אסרו על צילומים פרטיים. הופעלה צנזורה על סרטים. בסרט מתראיין ההסטוריון הגרמני ד"ר Christian Hardinghaus אשר כתב ספר על צילומים אלה , בשם Ein Held Dunkler Zeit

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 19

Language : German