Nazis and the Cinema [Hardcover]

Before the rise of television, the cinema was a key medium of entertainment and information. The Nazi regime, which inherited the largest film industry outside Hollywood, realised this, with some of the most memorable images of Hitler and his party coming from Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will. Susan Tegel has written a comprehensive account of the films made in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, including the notorious feature film, Jud S?ss, and the compilation documentary Der Ewige Jude. She explores in detail how the film makers were controlled and used by the regime and examines other less well-known films featuring Jewish characters and how their image differed from film to film. She also looks at the industry itself, its reorganization, funding, the interventions of the Propaganda Ministry headed by Goebbels, the compromises which people had to make, the careerism and the dangers which some faced either of unemployment or worse.

CONTENTS

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements



1 Hitler: Image Building

2 Nazi Propaganda

3 The German Film Industry to 1918

4 Weimar Cinema

5 The Nazi Film Industry

6 The Kampfzeit Films

7 Triumph of the Will

8 A Judenfrei Cinema

9 Comedies

10 The Rothschilds and Jud S?ss

11 Der Ewige Jude

12 The Second World War

13 Film and The Final Solution

14 Theresienstadt

15 Liberation

Filmography

Bibliography