“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.)
Our forthcoming book in 2025......
A mock-up of the cover which will be vastly improved when published.
A description of the book's contents:
During its twelve years, the Third Reich created more than a thousand feature films. Dr Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, was a true believer that the motion picture was a key weapon to engage the German public in supporting National Socialism. He personally devoted hours almost every day or night to reading film scripts, screening films before they were approved for cinemas, and overseeing the massive film industry. By February 1942, public audiences in Germany reached 1.067 billion attendees, overshadowing Hollywood to become the world’s largest film industry.
Post–war historians from the USA and UK acknowledged that German propaganda was “the war that Hitler won,” with Nazi propaganda films being significantly more sophisticated and better produced than those of their enemies. Germany’s excellent actors, high production standards, major studios, skilled composers and technicians created numerous top films, such as Jud Süss and Ohm Krüger.
This is the first book devoted to surveying films that were approved and announced in film studios’ annual preview catalogs but were never made: Nazi ideological films, military and war films, German colony films, “German Genius” biopics, anti–British and/or pro-Irish films, anti-Soviet films, and anti-Semitic films. Even a pro-American film was made before Pearl Harbor brought the U.S.A. into WWII.
The collection includes thirty-eight unproduced propaganda films and all available information, accompanied by chapters detailing Third Reich filmmaking during peacetime and wartime. Extensive research into documents, internal reports, and letters exchanged with Dr Goebbels, the Propaganda Ministry, the Head of German Film (Reichsfilmintendant), and the Reich Film Chamber, as well as minutes from board meetings at the renowned Ufa film studio, has been conducted to gather insights about these projects, which have been translated into English. A selection of fifty images, mostly in color, along with graphics and proposed film posters, revive these unknown and forgotten stories.
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