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Triumph of the Will (1935)

 

Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a propaganda film by the German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. The film contains excerpts from speeches given by various Nazi leaders at the Congress, including portions of speeches by Adolf Hitler, interspersed with footage of massed party members. Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles. The overriding theme of the film is the return of Germany as a great power, with Hitler as the True German Leader who will bring glory to the nation. (more…)

SA Mann Brand (1933)

 

S.A.-Mann Brand is a German film, made at the start of the Third Reich. It was released in mid-June 1933, and depicted events as recent as March of that year. (more…)

Victory of Faith (1934)

 

Der Sieg des Glaubens (English: Victory of Faith) is the first documentary directed by Leni Riefenstahl, who was hired despite opposition from Nazi officials that resented employing a woman — and a non-Party member too. Her film recounts the Fifth Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which occurred in Nuremberg from August 30 to September 3 in 1933. (more…)

 

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Day of Freedom! Our Armed Forces! (1935)

 

Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht (English: Day of Freedom: Our Armed Forces) is the third documentary directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Her film recounts the Seventh Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which occurred in Nuremberg and focuses on the German army. (more…)

Festliches Nürnberg (1937)

 

Festliches Nürnberg (English: Festival Nuremberg) is a short 1937 propaganda film chronicling the Nazi Party rallies in Nuremberg, Germany in 1936 and 1937. The film was directed by Hans Weidemann. (more…)

Olympia (1938)

 

Part 1: Festival of the Nations

 

Part 2: Festival of Beauty

 

Olympia is a 1938 film by Leni Riefenstahl documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The movie was produced in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker (Festival of Peoples) and Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit (Festival of Beauty). It was the first documentary film on the Olympic Games ever made. Many advanced motion picture techniques, which later became industry standards but which were groundbreaking at the time, were employed, including unusual camera angles, smash-cut editing techniques, extreme close-ups, setting the railway tracks on the stadium to shoot the crowd and the like. (more…)

 

Yesterday and Today (1938)

Feldzug in Polen (1940)

 

Feldzug in Polen (The Campaign in Poland) is a 69 minute documentary/Nazi propaganda film depicting the 1939 invasion of Poland and directed by Fritz Hippler. It shows the Poles as aggressors and ethnic Germans living in Poland as an oppressed minority. It also highlights the unheroic tactics the Poles used in the war and their senseless defense of a besieged Warsaw. The film was often screened by German minorities overseas to clarify the German point of view. (more…)

Kampf um Norwegen - Feldzug 1940

 

Kampf um Norwegen - Feldzug 1940 (English: Battle for Norway - 1940 campaign) is a 80 minute-long Nazi propaganda film directed by Martin Rikli and Dr. Werner Buhre by orders from the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. Released in 1940, the movie follows the Invasion of Denmark and Norway in the spring 1940. (more…)

March For The Führer (1940)

 

Der Marsch zum Führer (English: The March to the Führer) is a Nazi propaganda film released in 1940. It depicts the nationwide march of Hitler Youth (HJ) to Nuremberg for the Nazi Party Rally. Unlike the earlier Leni Riefenstahl Nuremberg documentaries, it doesn't focus on the Party congress itself, or on Nazi leaders, who are not shown until the very end of the film. Instead, it follows HJ boys from various parts of Nazi Germany beginning their journey, being taken in by helpful families on the way, and marching through cities in formation, saluting and waving the swastika banner. (more…)

Die Deutsche Wochenschau (1940)

Die Deutsche Wochenschau (?)

Die Deutsche Wochenschau (Feb. 1943)

 

Die Deutsche Wochenschau (English: The German Newsreel) is the sole series of German newsreels from 1940 until the end of World War II.

 

The series was a source of footage for late Nazi propaganda films such as Der Ewige Jude and Feldzug in Polen, as well as innumerable post war documentaries. (more…)

Germany At War Vol. 1

 

Germany At War Vol. 2

 

News reels

Bismarck (1940)

 

This period drama stresses similarities between Otto Bismarck and Adolf Hitler. (more…)

Jud Süß (1940)

 

Jud Süß (The Jew Süss) was the nickname of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer and is the title of an 1827 novella by Wilhelm Hauff, a 1925 historical novel by Lion Feuchtwanger, a 1934 British film and a Nazi propaganda film made in 1940 by Veit Harlan, all of which are stories with a title character modelled on Oppenheimer. (more…)

U-Boote Westwärts (1941)

 

U-Boats Westwards was a 1941 German war film promoting the Kriegsmarine. It concerns a U-boat mission in the Second Battle of the Atlantic. (more…)

Der Große König (1942)

 

Der Große König (The Great King) won the 1942 Coppa Mussolini prize as the best foreign film released in Italy that year.

The Road of the Leibstandarte SS

 

Der weg der leibstandarte SS (The road of the Leibstandarte SS) is a documentary about the triumph and losses of the SS division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. (more…)

Goebbels family home movies (1942)

 

During 1942 the children appeared 34 times in the weekly newsreels, going about their lives, helping their mother, playing in the garden or singing to their father on his 45th birthday, that October, when Joseph was presented with a film of his children playing as a gift from the German Newsreel Company. (more…)

Eva Braun home movies 1

Eva Braun home movies 2

 

Eva Anna Paula Braun, died Eva Anna Paula Hitler (6 February 1912–30 April 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and briefly his wife. (more…)

 

In the Forest of Katyn (1943)

 

The Katyń massacre, also known as the Katyń Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass execution of Polish citizens ordered by Soviet authorities on March 5, 1940. (more…)

Junker der Waffen-SS (1943)

 

From bayonet fighting to blasting bunkers, glacier climbing to sniper fire, here is the tough training that molded the leaders of Hitler's armies. This original Nazi film, enhanced by action-packed sequences and a brilliant musical score, depicts life at German schools for young men of the Waffen SS.

 

Panarama Vol. 1 (1944)

 

Panorama was a quarterly colour newsreel series that focused on "human interest" stories in 1944, such as harvesting but also army training. The four reels that were made are a source for colour images of the Germany and occupied Europe in the last full year of Nazi domination.

 

The Fuhrer Gives the Jews a City (1944)

Heimkehr in Reich (1944)

 

Heimkehr in Reich (Return to the Reich) is about the return of Austria to the German fatherland. (more…)

Kolberg (1945)

 

Kolberg is a 1945 German propaganda film directed by Veit Harlan and Wolfgang Liebeneiner. It opened on January 30, 1945 simultaneously in Berlin and to the crew of the naval base at La Rochelle. It was also screened in the Reich chancellery after the broadcast of Hitler's last radio address on January 30.

 

The film was intended to boost the morale of the Germans in the last phase of World War II. It was based on the autobiography of Joachim Nettelbeck, mayor of Kolberg. It told the story of the successful defence of the fortress town of Kolberg against French troops between April and July 1807. (more…)

Last German Newsreel (March 1945)

 

Die Deutsche Wochenschau. Includes last footage of Hitler awarding Hitler Youth volunteers shortly before the Battle of Berlin. (more…)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Videos aus dem Dritten Reich

 

Third Reich Videos

 

 

Triumph des Willens,

Der Sieg des Glaubens,

Olympia

 

 

Und viele mehr im Vollbildformat

 

 

 

 

TV and Revisionist Documentaries