This work focuses primarily on Nazi propaganda feature films and documentaries made in Germany between 1933 and 1945 and released to the public. Some of them were produced by order of and financed by the Third Reich. The films are arranged by subject and then alphabetically, and complete cast and production credits are provided for each.

Table of Contents


Preface    

Introduction    


1 "Martyrs" of the Nazi Movement    

2 Triumph of the Will: The Odd Case of Leni Riefenstahl    

3 The Eternal Forest: Blood, Soil, and Euthanasia    

4 Hitler Youth: Soldiers for the Führer    

5 The German Film Academy    

6 Baptism of Fire: Nazi Germany at War    

7 Surrounded by Enemies    

8 The Eternal Jew: Anti-Semitic Films    

9 The Great King    

10 Black-Out: The Home Front, or, "That's Not the End of the World"    

11 Götterdämmerung: Kolberg and the Fall of the Third Reich    


Filmography    

Appendix: A Who's Who of Hitler Era Filmmaking    

Notes    

Bibliography    

Index    

Rolf Giesen, a former visiting professor of animation at the Communication University of China and president of an animation museum in Changchun, China, has compiled a special effects collection for Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin and has co-written several animation features. He is an expert on early fantasy and science fiction films.