“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
"After the end of an inglorious era, there is always a certain tendency to eradicate and forget, to remove evidence and documents from this period from historical use. This is especially true for those interested in film history when attempting to present the history of German film during the Third Reich." –– from a PhD candidate's dissertation, 1954, Munich.
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 Poster of the Month
Women for Golden Hill / Frauen für Golden Hill
This is an A3 (ca. 11 inch x 17 inch) poster issued by the Ufa studios in late 1940 to promote their film Women for Golden Hill. This small poster is often called a "window poster" as it often was seen in shop windows. The local cinema screening dates and address were over–printed in the gray blank at the bottom of the graphic art.
This film is one of just three which had an Australian story–line or locale for a Third Reich feature film. We have a page on this topic here.
Our Collection also holds 19 lobby cards and press photos for the film, the German Advertising Manual for cinema owners (Werberatschlag), and the French press–book for the film, as well as the A2 sized original French poster, shown below.
