NEW FINDS about Hitler Youth Quex since our

2nd revised edition of the book was published

in September 2024, and therefore missed being

included in that final edition.

On page 380 of the 2nd revised edition, we wrote

There is no objective evidence that the film was shown in Salazar’s Portugal other than the Portuguese language title shown on the IMDb website, O Jovem Hitleriano Quex. But as the film was released in Franco’s Spain, it is quite likely that it was indeed shown in Portugal.

We have now discovered a small notice in the November 14, 1936 issue of the Berlin film newspaper Der Film:

Translated, the news report reads:

The Lisbon branch of the NSDAP's foreign organization recently showed the film "Hitlerjunge Quex" in the presence of the Portuguese Minister of Education, the German ambassador and the entire German colony. The film was enthusiastically received in Portugal.

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In the October 10, 1936 issue of Der Film newspaper, an article heading reads in translation: "German Films for the Museum of Modern Arts."   It was said by film historians that MOMA in New York City's 35mm print of the film was purcvhased from Nazi Germany prior to WWII. That print was used by Gregory Batson to write his anti–German pyschological propaganda report on the film for the Pentagon and the OSS, the forerunner to the CIA. His 55 page report was published in 1943 as "An Analysis of the Nazi Film 'Hitlerjunge Quex'. " One scholar, David Weinberg,  has criticized the Bateson study of Quex as ‘impressionistic musings and pseudo–Freudian commentary on life in the Third Reich.’ (See pp. 400ff. and my footnote #350 for this quote. )

In the newspaper article in Der Film cited above, the news about MOMA's acquisition of the film in 1936 is translated as follows:

John Hay Whitney, the president of the Museum of Modern Art, returned that day from Europe, where he had collected filmstrips for the museum's film library, full of praise for the kindness he had encountered. Museum's film library. The library aims to preserve the best films from the world's first forty years of film.

The first group consists of 29 German films. It includes, among others: “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1919), “The Last Man” (1924), “The Love of Jeanne Ney” (1927) the Janning film “Anna Boleyn” (1920), the Paul Wegener film “The Golem” (1920),  “A Tired Death”, ‘Dr. Mabuse’, ”Siegfried” (1921-23), “Varieté” (1925, Jannings and Lya de Putti), another Jannings film, namely “Tartuffe” (1925), ‘Metropolis’ (1926), once again Jannings, namely “Faust” (1926), “Emil and the Detectives” (1931), ”Hitlerjunge Quex” (1934) and the Tobis film ”Die Kamera fährt mit”. In addition to these feature films, old German movies from the years 1898-1905, as well as some silhouette films by Lotte Reiniger and the Hapag film “Melodies of the World” were acquired.

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Future discoveries shall be added here.