“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
POSTER GALLERY --view
over 500 German film
original posters between
1927–1954 from
Germany and from
many Axis and Neutral countries
across Europe!
Note! Posters in the Poster Gallery are PERMANENT
acquisitions which are NOT FOR SALE!! ONLY the
posters listed in our POSTER STORE are for sale.
(They have a price and order button to use.)
The little item that started it all......
In 1977 we bought for $1.00 –– at a military collector's show –– this Uƒa film studio 8 page newspaper, which had on the last page a B&W reproduction of the film poster for the Hans Steinhoff film Hitlerjunge Quex. The newspaper, called "Opfergeist," or "spirit of sacrifice" was aimed at Hitler Youth boys and BDM girls as a marketing tool to interest them in this film. Not that those youngsters would have been unaware of it, as the novel upon which the film was faithfully based had appeared both in newspaper syndication and as a book the previous year; and was hugely popular.
"Opfergeist" is listed in our cinema owner's promotion guide for the film as a publication which the cinema owner could order in bulk for distribution across their city or town. Despite it having been printed in the many thousands in 1933, it is a very scarce piece of film ephemera. We reproduce below the front page, the second page with an article by KARL RITTER (the film's Producer) on how he found the young actor for the lead role after the first actor suddenly fell ill the second week of the film–shoot; as well as the poster page.
