“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.)
Uƒa film studio and the Ordensburgen
In the confidential Ufa book "Guidelines for Film Distribution 1940/1941" found in our Library, the book has a small set of guidelines for Ufa managers as regards providing feature films and short films to the Hitler Youth Ordensburgen:
The paragraph explains the renting out of films to the ORDENSBURGEN, is to be at a flat (i.e.: inexpensive) rate of RM 50,– to RM 75,- per film and further states:
" The Ordensburgen of the Party as training centres of the future Party leadership attach great importance to film screenings in order to take a corresponding share in the development of German film. "
Only one feature film was made in the Third Reich in an Ordenburgen -- Victor de Kowa's Kopf Hoch, Johannes! (Chin up, Johannes!), which starred Klaus Detlef Sierck as the young Argentine-German sent from the Pampas to Germany for schooling, and to learn discipline and obediance after youthful transgressions on his father's farm estate in Argentina.
Here an advertisement for the flm from our collection:
