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The Horst-Wessel-Lied ("Song of Horst Wessel"), also known as Die Fahne Hoch ("The Flag Raised"), was the official anthem of the NSDAP.The song was written by Horst Wessel, a party activist and SA leader, who was killed by a member of the Communist Party of Germany.
Music in Nazi Germany, like all cultural activities in the regime, was controlled and "co-ordinated" (Gleichschaltung) by various entities of the state and the Nazi Party, with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and the prominent Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg playing leading – and competing – roles.
German Weaponry: Der Ewige Jude: Fritz Hippler: The Eternal Jew; Anti-Semitic documentary propaganda film The Eternal Spring: Fritz Kirchhoff: Eugen Klöpfer, Bernhard Minetti, Lina Carstens: Drama Fahrt ins Leben: Bernd Hofmann: Journey Into Life; Nazi film about 3 Merchant navy cadets. Feinde: Viktor Tourjansky: Enemies; Film justifying the ...
Therefore, the best that can be understood about German Music during the war is the official Nazi government policy, the level of enforcement, and some notion of the diversity of other music listened to, but as the losers in the war German Music and Nazi songs from World War II has not been assigned the high heroic status of American and ...
Nazi Germany, [i] officially known as the German Reich [j] and later the Greater German Reich, [k] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
Country Title Director Notes 1940 United Kingdom: Night Train to Munich: Carol Reed: First feature film to depict German concentration camps. 1940 United States: The Mortal Storm: Frank Borzage: One character is sent to a concentration camp and dies there, while his family is trying to leave Nazi Germany. 1940 United States: The Great Dictator ...
While not as highly regarded as films of the preceding Weimar Republic era, [citation needed] the films of Nazi Germany, mainly made under control of Joseph Goebbels, hold a fascination for many, [citation needed] both as historical documents of one of the most important periods of 20th century history, as well as for their own artistic merit.
The Three Codonas (German: Die drei Codonas) (1940) – Nazi German drama film based on the life of the circus performer Alfredo Codona [35] The Westerner (1940) – Western film concerning a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegaroon, Texas, who befriends a saddle tramp who opposes the judge's policy against homesteaders [36]