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Triumph of the Will

The Fuhrer Gives the Jews a City (Part 1 & 2)

 Auschwitz Documentary
Nazi Concentration Camps (Unedited film shot upon liberation by Army Signal Corps.)

 Lest We Forget (Liberation footage at Buchenwald & Dachau)
To many Holocaust scholars, historians, and film experts, this film is considered one of the most famous propaganda films ever made.  The Nazi regime depicts Hitler as a messianic savior who has descended from heaven to redeem all of Germany.  The film glorifies and promotes patriotism through the idea of a Germany that will be the Master Race and someday rule the world.  This propaganda was just one branch of the vast propaganda net they wove.  Its depiction of masses of German youth attending the annual Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg paints a picture that every young German aspires to.  The other major branch of the propaganda program is to demonize the Jews who were to be the target of all their hatred. They viewed the Jews as a cancer on the greater Germany (a medical metaphor) that had to be cut out to cure the greater organism (patient) which was Germany.  That side of the propaganda can be seen in an equally sinister film, actually more sinister and vile than one could imagine.  That film is "The Eternal Jew"

The Eternal Jew (Der Ewige Jude)
 Although this film has been banned in many countries it is important to see in order to understand the propaganda that National Socialist Germany spewed forth.  In this film the Jews are demonized as in all German propaganda.  They are literally compared to diseased rats who spread their diseases across the earth among mankind.  Some of the scenes are horrific and many are staged.  It was shown throughout Germany in public theaters.  This version is dubbed in with English subtitles.
Here is Germany
 A documentary propaganda exploration of why one of the two major Axis countries started World War II and what had to be done to keep them from "doing it again".  The Nazi party went to great lengths using its strengths as a country to cause evil and destruction all over the world.  It was directed by American film maker Frank Capra.  Some of the footage is quite graphic and not for the weak at heart.


 Prelude To War
 WHY WE FIGHT SERIES: FILM #1
 Produced by the U.S. Army Special Service Division, and directed by Frank Capra "Why We Fight" is a seven part propaganda/documentary series that traces the earliest beginnings of the second world war starting with Japan's invasion of China in 1931, to the Nazi's march across Europe.

**Best Documentary Academy Award in 1943**
This famous propaganda piece, used as a U.S. Army training film in WWII before theatrical release, asks 'why we fight.' The answer compares the 'free' and 'slave' worlds. Included: development of dictatorships in Italy, Germany and Japan, while anti-militarism and isolationism rise in the USA; a look at enemy propaganda; and the first acts of aggression. Walter Huston narrates a combination of archival footage, maps, and other graphics.


 After Mein Kampf
 The Story Of Adolph Hitler. In this shallow combination of documentary and fiction, shocking footage of concentration camp survivors, dead bodies, Hitler's rantings, German soldiers enthusiastically singing patriotic songs, and similar scenes of World War II are mixed with enacted film clips, such as a German soldier raping a woman — or worse. Even before the director asks the clearly spurious question of whether or not Hitler is really dead, many viewers might feel offended by the way in which the emphasis on bestiality and other crimes seems to take precedence over an honest or insightful approach to the inhumanity of the Nazi regime.
The Nuremberg Trials
 This riveting Russian documentary takes you inside the trials of the notorious German war criminals, brought to trial to account for their actions. The footage includes excerpts from the trials of many of the senior Nazis including Goebels and Goring.


 The Secret Life of Adolph Hitler
 1950's television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler's sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with Hitler, actual footage shot by the Nazi's and Eva Braun's rare home movies.

War Comes To America
 Part VII of the "Why We Fight" series of wartime documentaries. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War.


 Escape From Sobibor
 During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had been spared from the ovens, knew that they were on borrowed time and that their only hope was to escape... the only question was how to do it. However, because the Germans would kill an equal number of others whenever a group attempted to escape, the captives knew that if ever an escape was tried, all 600 prisoners in the camp would have to be included... logistically precluding any ideas about tunnels or sneak breakouts. Indeed, to have such a mass escape could only mean that the Ukrainian guards and German officers would have to be killed, which many of the Jews felt simply reduced themselves to no better than their captors... thus making it a struggle of conscience. And therein lies the story, with the film being based on a factual account of what then happened at that Sobibor prison.