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Propagandaministerium
The Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (; RMVP), also known simply as the Ministry of Propaganda (), controlled the content of the press, literature, visual arts, film, theater, music and radio in Nazi Germany. The ministry was created as the central institution of Nazi propaganda shortly after the party's national seizure of power in January 1933. In the Hitler cabinet, it was headed by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who exercised control over all German mass media and creative artists through his ministry and the Reich Chamber of Culture (), which was established in the fall of 1933. Establishment and functions Shortly after the March 1933 Reichstag elections, Adolf Hitler presented his cabinet with a draft resolution to establish the ministry. Despite the skepticism of some non-National Socialist ministers, Hitler pushed the resolution through. On 13 March 1933, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg issued a decree ordering the establishment of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Review Office
{{Infobox government agency , name = Film Review Office , native_name = Filmprüfstelle , native_name_a = , native_name_r = , type = Office , seal = 1931-11-06 Ausschnitt Josef Fenneker Filmplakat Einer Frau muss man alles verzeihen, Stempel Filmprüfstelle Berlin, Unterschrift Leo Dillinger.jpg , seal_width = , seal_caption = , logo = , logo_width = , logo_caption = , image = , image_size = , image_caption = , formed = 1920 , preceding1 = , preceding2 = , dissolved = 1945 , superseding1 = Voluntary Self-Regulation of the Film Industry (''Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft'') , superseding2 = , jurisdiction = Germany , headquarters = Berlin and Munich , coordinates = , motto = , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ordenspalais
The Ordenspalais ("Palace of the Order f Saint John) was a building on the northern corner of Wilhelmplatz with Wilhelmstraße in Berlin (now in Berlin-Mitte). Erection of the building at Wilhelmplatz No. 7/8 began in 1737 as the residence of the Prussian Major General Karl Ludwig, Count of Waldburg-Capustigall, who died the next year. By command of King Frederick William I of Prussia, the palace was finished by the Order of Saint John (the ''Johanniterorden'') according to plans by Carl Friedrich Richter, who also designed the neighbouring ''Palais Schulenburg'' (later the German Reich Chancellery). From 1738, the palace was the principal residence of the ''Herrenmeister'' ("Master of the Knights"), chief of the Order, and housed the Berlin legation of the Order. The palace later was renamed for Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, who was ''Herrenmeister'' from 1763 to 1811. The Kingdom of Prussia took over the building in 1811, upon the dissolution of the Order by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazism And Cinema
Nazism created an elaborate system of propaganda, which made use of the new technologies of the 20th century, including cinema. Nazism courted the masses by the means of slogans that were aimed directly at the instincts and emotions of the people. The Nazis valued film as a propaganda instrument of enormous power. The interest that Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels took in film was not only the result of a personal fascination. The use of film for propaganda had been planned by the Nazi Party as early as 1930, when the party first established a film department. Background The Nazis were very aware of the propagandistic effect of movies and already in 1920 the issues of the '' Racial Observer'' included film criticism. The SS-philosopher Walter Julius Bloem published the book ''The Soul of the Cinema – A Commitment to the Movies'' in 1922. In September 1923, Philipp Nickel produced a documentary of the "German Day in Nuremberg" where the " Battle-Leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Naumann
Werner Naumann (16 June 1909 – 25 October 1982) was a German civil servant and politician. He was State Secretary in Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the Nazi Germany era. He was appointed head of the Propaganda Ministry by Adolf Hitler in his last will and testament after Goebbels was promoted to ''Reichskanzler''. Naumann was present in the ''Führerbunker'' in late April 1945. Early life and political career Naumann was born in Guhrau in Silesia, Prussia, Germany. After finishing school, he studied political economics. Naumann joined the Nazi Party in 1928. Naumann became a member of the SA where he rose to the rank of '' Brigadeführer'' by 1933. Thereafter, Naumann joined the SS. In 1937 he was Chief of the Propaganda Office in Breslau. A year later he was made the personal aide of Joseph Goebbels and in 1942 became his assistant secretary. His official title was "Undersecretary and Chief of the Minister's Office in the Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Hippler
Fritz Hippler (17 August 1909 – 22 May 2002) was a German filmmaker who ran the film department in the Propaganda Ministry of Nazi Germany, under Joseph Goebbels. He is best known as the director of the propaganda film '' Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew)''. Early life and education Hippler was born and brought up in Berlin as the son of a petty official. His father died in 1918 in the First World War in France. Hippler resented the Treaty of Versailles and its associated regulations, such as the assignment of the Danzig Corridor, the occupation of the Rhineland and the disarmament of Germany as unjustified humiliation, and rejected the Weimar democracy. In 1925 when he was 17, Hippler joined the Nazi party NSDAP.Artists under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival under Naz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Hanke
Karl August Hanke (24 August 1903 – 8 June 1945) was an official of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) during its rule over Germany and served as the fifth and last '' Reichsführer'' of the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS). He also served as ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 and as '' Oberpräsident'' of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. Captured on 6 May 1945, he was shot and wounded during an escape attempt and then beaten to death by Czech communists on 8 June, after the war had ended. Life Hanke was born in Lauban (present-day Lubań) in Silesia, on 24 August 1903. His older brother was killed in World War I. Hanke was too young for service in the war and attended Gymnasium through Obersekunda. He served in the Reichswehr as a ''Zeitfreiwilliger'' (temporary volunteer) in the 19th Infantry Regiment (von Courbiere) at Frankfurt/Oder from 1920 to 1921. Hanke obtained an education as a milling engineer by attending the German Millers' School at Dippoldiswalde. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the '' Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted acolytes, known for his skills in public speaking and his deeply virulent antisemitism, which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. Goebbels, who aspired to be an author, obtained a Doctor of Philology degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1921. He joined the Nazi Party in 1924, and worked with Gregor Strasser in its northern branch. He was appointed '' Gauleiter'' of Berlin in 1926, where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its programme. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry quickly g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party (; DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920. The Nazi Party emerged from the extremist German nationalist, racist and populist paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post–World War I Germany. The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into nationalism. Initially, Nazi political strategy focused on anti– big business, anti- bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric. This was later downplayed to gain the support of business leaders, and in the 1930s, the party's main focus shifted to antisemitic and anti-Marxist themes. The party had little popular support until the Great Depression. Pseudoscientific racist theories we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
''Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' (often abbreviated to DAZ) was a German newspaper that appeared between 1861 and 1945. Until 1918 the title of the paper was ''Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung''. Although Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of SPD and close associate of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was member of the founding editorial board in 1861, the paper became soon a conservative flagship of the German press ("Bismarcks Hauspostille"). At the end of the First World War, the name was changed to "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung", under the intention to form a conservative and democratic equivalent to the British newspaper '' The Times'' in Germany and give the Reich a more democratic image. Various liberal and conservative writers worked for DAZ at that time, Otto Flake was head of the Cultural Section ( called "Feuilleton" in German newspapers ), people like the historian Egmont Zechlin, the journalist Dr. Friedrich Schrader and his Swiss colleague from Constantinople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Deutsche Wochenschau
''Die Deutsche Wochenschau'' (''The German Weekly Review'') was the title of the unified newsreel series released in the cinemas of Nazi Germany from June 1940 until the end of World War II. The coordinated newsreel production was set up as a vital instrument for the mass distribution of Nazi propaganda at war. Today the preserved ''Wochenschau'' short films make up a significant part of the audiovisual records of the Nazi era. History Newsreels had been regularly released since the early days of German cinema, especially during World War I, when companies like Messter Film started producing short silent film documentaries. With the final changeover to sound films in the early 1930s, the newsreel market concentrated on four dominating production companies: Universum Film AG (''Ufa-Tonwoche'' and '' Deulig-Tonwoche''), 20th Century Fox 20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babelsberg Studio
Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since 1912. With a total area of about and a studio area of about it is Europe's largest film studio. Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'' and Josef von Sternberg's '' The Blue Angel'' were filmed there. More recent productions include ''V for Vendetta'', '' Captain America: Civil War'', '' Æon Flux'', ''The Bourne Ultimatum'', ''Valkyrie'', '' Inglourious Basterds'', '' Cloud Atlas'', '' The Grand Budapest Hotel'', '' The Hunger Games'', ''Isle of Dogs'' and '' The Matrix Resurrections''. Today, Studio Babelsberg remains operational mainly for feature film productions. It also acts as producer on German productions and co-producer on international high-budget productions. Since January 2022 it has been owned by TPG Real ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eternal Jew (film)
''The Eternal Jew'' is a 1940 antisemiticAntisemitic: * Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, Susanne Zantop. ''The imperialist imagination: German colonialism and its legacy'', University of Michigan Press, 1998, p. 173. * Jack Fischel, ''The Holocaust'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998, pp. 15–16. * David Stewart Hull. ''Film in the Third Reich: a study of the German cinema, 1933–1945'', University of California Press, 1969, pp. 157–158. * Marvin Perry, Frederick M. Schweitzer. ''Antisemitism: myth and hate from antiquity to the present'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, p. 78. * Hershel Edelheit, Abraham J. Edelheit. ''A world in turmoil: an integrated chronology of the Holocaust and World War II'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 1991, 388. Nazi propaganda film,1940 propaganda film: * "The Eternal Jew 940ranks as one of the most virulent propaganda films ever made." Richard Taylor, ''Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany'', I.B.Tauris, 2006, p. 174. * "Fritz Hippler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
