This book, first published in 1988, provides a comparative approach for looking at the filmic witness of the final days of the Third Reich, and the opening of Stunde Null (Zero Hour) - the birth of a new Germany. It contains articles by a group of international scholars each dealing with the message of German defeat.

K.R.M. Short and Stephan Dolezel

1. American Newsreels and the Collapse of Nazi Germany K.R.M. Short 2. Defeated Germany in British Newsreels: 1944-45 Nicholas Pronay 3. Soviet Film Chronicles and the Fall of Nazi Germany Sergei Drobashenko 4. The Red Army Beflags the Reichstag: Film as Historical Fantasy Richard C. Raack 5. The Polish Newsreel in 1945: The Bitter Victory Stanislaw Ozimek 6. Goebbels, Götterdämmerung, and the Deutsche Wochenschauen David Welch 7. Swiss Newsreel - 1945 Peter Gerdes 8. Welt im Film: Origins and Message Heinrich Bodensieck 9. Welt im Film 1945 and the Reeducation of Occupied Germany Stephan Dolezel 10. The Problem of 'Authenticity' in the German Wartime Newsreels Karl Stamm 11. Film as a Source of Historical Authenticity Peter Bucher