"... publishers and the like. Not content with investigating such people's racial
origins, they were also concerned with their 'attitudes' and the company they kept.
A few examples from material deposited in the Bundesarchiv will hopefully give
some indication of this three-way process: in a letter from the Bureau dated 12
March 1935 to the Filmkontingentstelle, they requested the following information:
Our readers have been enquiri ..."
""This book has no scholarly equivalent in English." · Choice The Nazis saw film as a major vehicle for both indoctrination and escapist pacification of the "masses"; in fact, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels tried to create a German counter-Hollywood. This highly acclaimed study, by one of Germany's leading commentators and authors on cultural policy, analyses the pictorial and spoken language of the various film genres in the Thir ..."
"Even the regime's trustworthy liaison at Wien-Film, Fritz Hirt, protested against
this total drain of the industry, but to no avail. Resistance to the final self-
annihilation of the Reich in the cause of a hopeless war was particularly strong in
Austria, and found resonance among the filmmakers. In February 1945, the
Gestapo arrested popular actor Paul Hörbiger (brother of Attila) for alleged
involvement with an Austrian resistance ..."
"One of the main suppliers of military training films was Mars-Film G.m.b.H. in
Berlin, which commissioned the talent. Mars-Film emerged as part of the Ufi
concern, the umbrella of German film, with an authorized capital ofRM 20,000. Its
task was to supply films for the Wehr- macht. Two separate offices,
Heeresfilmstelle (Army Film Office) and Marine-Hauptfilmstelle (Navy Film Office),
had been disbanded already to make room for a c ..."
The Ministry of Illusion(96th Edition) Nazi Cinemaand Its Afterlife by Eric Rentschler Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 1996 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-57640-7, ISBN: 0-674-57640-3
" German cinema of the Third Reich, even a half-century after Hitler's demise, still provokes extreme reactions. "Never before and in no other country," observes director Wim Wenders, "have images and language been abused so unscrupulously as here, never before and nowhere else have they been debased so deeply as vehicles to transmit lies." More than a thousand German feature films that premiered during the reign of National Socialism su ..."
Nazi Propaganda Nazism andCinema, List of German Films 1933- 1945, Signal (magazine), Big Lie, Leni Riefenstahl, Ministry of Public Enlightenment andPropaganda, Lord Haw- Haw, Propaganda, Mein Kampf, World War I by Editor-John Mcbrewster, Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome Paperback, 148 Pages, Published 2009 by Alphascript Publishing ISBN-13: 978-613-0-08193-5, ISBN: 613-0-08193-6
The UFA Story(1st Edition) A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company 1918-1945 by Klaus Kreimeier, Robert Kimber, Rita Kimber Hardcover, 451 Pages, Published 1996 by Hill & Wang Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8090-9483-7, ISBN: 0-8090-9483-5
GermanyandPropaganda in World War I Pacifism, Mobilization and Total War by David Welch 384 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-85772-471-7, ISBN: 0-85772-471-1
Nazi Propaganda Films A History and Filmography by Rolf Giesen 295 Pages, Published 2008 by Mcfarland ISBN-13: 978-1-4766-1269-0, ISBN: 1-4766-1269-2
Nazi Soundscapes(1st Edition) Sound, Technology and Urban Space in Germany, 1933-1945 by Carolyn Birdsall Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2012 by Amsterdam University Press ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-426-8, ISBN: 90-8964-426-1
Entertaining the Third Reich Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Linda Schulte-Sasse Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1996 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1824-8, ISBN: 0-8223-1824-5