“History is not about the facts. It is about the context and who is telling the story.” —Prof. Milton Fine.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." –– George Orwell in his novel "1984."
"Whoever doubts the exclusive guilt of Germany for the Second World War destroys the foundation of post–war politics." –– Prof. Theodor Eschenberg, Rector, the University of Tübingen.
"If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how." – Friedrich Nietzsche
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over 500 German film
original posters between
1927–1954 from
Germany and from
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across Europe!
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Hitlerjunge Quex opened in Berlin and then ran in one hundred and ten other Greater Berlin cinemas between late September 1933 and early January 1934 – here's proof.
Some German film histories comment that after its premiere in Berlin's Ufa-Palast-am-Zoo cinema, Quex ran for a further two weeks there. A reader could infer that the film was therefore unpopular or perhaps even a something of a flop. As if there were not many other Berlin cinemas to present the film in the enusing weeks and months.
We have acquired the 52 issues for 1933 of the weekly radio programming magazine WOCHENBILD UND FUNKPROGRAMM
which ran one page on a new film of the week. The back cover also listed all of the films showing in Greater Berlin that week at every neighbourhood movie theatre. We reproduce below the fifteen weeks of listings for Hitlerjunge Quex from its premiere season at the Ufa-Palast-am-Zoo through to the end of its cinema run in early January 1934 in two movie theatres. We count 111 movie houses which showed the film for at least a week in those months. Not quite a flop.
The film, in fact, ranked # 10 in box office receipts in the 1933/34 annual cinema releases of 114 German feature films premiered that year.
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