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WAR DOCUMENTARIES VIDEO TAPES
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The swift collapse of the Third Reich in the spring of 1945 brought, with the surrender, mountains of films and documents covering the entire period of the Nazi regime. Perhaps no other period in history is as well documented. Many of these films are now historical documents of a time when madness and hate overran mankind. Some films made in those years do not reflect current official views of Germany, its people, or other nations and should be used only with extreme parental discretion and guidance. Almost 65 years have passed since the terrible holocaust. The memories and the consequences are still with us today. HOW...WHY... could such a system have arisen and flourished? How many times have the questions been asked? How many answers have been offered? The voices on these video tapes are the voices of history... perhaps those who listen today can help answer the questions posed by these terrible years!

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Adolf HitlerMP 6029
U.S.A., English language, Documentary, 55 min., b&w - Now and again, the tide of human history brings with it a ruler so barbaric and despicable that it scars our civilization forever. Heroes and Tyrants presents the fury of Adolf Hitler who ruthlessly dominated Europe for over four years, inflicting more misery and destruction than any leader before him. Included is footage of Hitler's brown-shirted storm troopers and his meeting with Chamberlain, Mussolini and Stalin.

Adolf HitlerVS 13230
English dialogue, 101 min., b&w - You will never forget the incredible, exclusive footage from all stages of Adolf Hitler's rise and fall from this, the darkest period in human history. Born of humble parentage in 1889, Hitler at first fancied himself an artist, but he found few offers for his work in the coffee houses of Vienna. Later he served, without particular distinction, in the Kaiser's army in World War I. It was in the 1920's that Hitler made his first bid for political power. By 1933 Germany had commander control of 'Der Fuehrer'. Within a few months conscription was introduced, soon to be followed by the harassment and eventual extermination of the Jews.

Adolf Hitler: Black FoxDO 5
1962, English. dialogue, 89 min., b&w - Narrated by Marlene Dietrich, this is the story of the most feared and fanatical national leader in history: his bitter boyhood in Austria, his ruthless drive to power in a defeated Germany and his wars of conquest against all of Europe. A winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Adolf Hitler, der Fuehrer und das 3.Reich
All in German language. Der Fuehrer und das 3. Reich original Newsreels. With extra historical commentary in German language. Zusammengestellt aus Wochenschauen und anderen zeitgenoessischen Bilddokumenten und Kommentaren.

• Teil 1 - Hitlers Weg zur Macht JS 3821
  ca. 40 min. - Szenenfolge - Sieg der Demokratie - Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus - Gruendung der NSDAP - Adolf Hitler und die NSDAP - Das Parteiprogramm - Hitlerputsch in Muenchen am 8. November 1923 - Verbot der NSDAP - Hitler auf der Festung Landsberg - Die legale Machtergreifung - NSDAP in den Jahren 1923 - 1929 - Weltwirtschaftskrise - Sternstunde des Radikalismus - Kommunisten und Nationalsozialisten - Wahlerfolge der NSDAP waehrend der Wirtschaftskrise - Reichspraesidentenwahl im Fruehjahr 1932 - NSDAP wird staerkste Partei im Reichstag - Franz von Papen und die Regierung der "Nationalen Konzentration" - gigantische Wahlkaempfe der NSDAP im Jahre 1932 - Kabinett Kurt von Schleicher - Machtuebernahme: HItler wird Reichskanzler - Kabinett Hitler - Reichstagsbrand - Der Tag von Potsdam - Ermaechtigungsgesetz - Gleichschaltung der Laender mit dem Reich - NSDAP wird Staatspartei - Aufloesung der anderen Parteien und Gewerkschaften - Roehm-Putsch - Ausschaltung der SA, Die Herrschaft der SS - Tod des Reichspraesidenten von Hindenburg - Adolf Hitler uebernimmt das Amt des Reichspraesidenten - Fuehrer und Reichskanzler. 


• Teil 2 - In den Krieg hinein JS 3822
  ca. 40 min. - Adolf Hitler, der Fuehrer und Reichskanzler - Parole "Deutschland erwache" - Reichsminister fuer Volksaufklaerung und Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels - Ideologische Gleichschaltung -NSDAP - Buecherverbrennungen - Reichsschriftungsstelle und Reichspressekammer - entartete Kunst und nationalsozialistische Kunst - Bauten des Fuehrers - Wiedereinfuehrung der allgemeinen Wehrpflicht - Adolf Hitler wird oberster Gerichtsherr - Das Arbeitsbeschaffungsprogramm - Wiederaufruestung - Politische Buendnisse 1933 bis 1939 - Die "Loesung der Judenfrage" - Reichskristallnacht. Die territorialen Forderungen - Anschluss Oesterreichs - Muenchner Konferenz - Eingliederung des Sudetenlandes in das Reich - Zerschlagung der Rest Tschechei - Protektorat Boehmen und Maehren - Besetzung des Memellandes - Politische Vorbereitungen zum Polenfeldzug - Deutsch-russischer Nichtangriffspakt - Einmarsch in Polen - Polenfeldzug - Angriff der Roten Armee auf das geschlagene Polen - Deutsch-sowjetische Grenz- und Freundschaftsvertrag - Ende des Polenfeldzuges - Neuordnung Polens durch die Siegermaechte.


• Teil 3 - Wir werden weiter maschieren JS 3823
  ca. 45 min. - Der Fall "Weseruebung" - Besetzung Daenemarks - Besetzung Norwegens - Kampf um Narvik. Der Westfeldzug - Angriff der Heeresgruppe B auf die Niederlande - Fall der Festung Holland - Kapitulation der Niederlande - Angriff auf Belgien - Rueckzug und Kapitulation der belgischen Armee - Rueckzug der britischen und franzoesischen Armeen in den Brueckenkopf von Duenkirchen - Angriff auf Nordfrankreich - Eroberung von Paris, Nord- und Westfrankreich - Vorstoss von Panzerverbaenden bis zur Schweizer Grenze - Eintritt taliens in den Krieg - Die Neuordnung der besiegten Gebiete. Die Schlacht im Atlantik - Operation der deutschen Seestreitkraefte - Der U-Boot-Krieg - Durchbruch der Atlantiklotte durch den Aermelkanal. Die Luftschlacht ueber England - Luftangriffe auf englische Flugplaetze, Bahn- und Industrieanlagen - Deutsche Bombenangriffe auf den Raum London - Deutschland verliert die Luftschlacht ueber England..


• Teil 4 - Vom Nordkap bis nach Afrika JS 3824
  ca. 45 min. - Die Achsenmaechte - Betritt Japans zur Achse Berlin-Rom. Nordafrika - Angriff italienischer Truppen auf das britische Aegypten - Gegenangriff der Briten - Verlegung des 10. Deutschen Fliegerkorps nach Sizilien - Aufstellung des deutschen Afrikakorps unter Erwin Rommel - Zurueckdraengung britischer Truppen and die aegyptische Grenze. Der Balkan - Einmarsch italienischer Truppen in Griechenland - Gegenoffensive der Griechen - deutsche Buendnispolitik auf dem Balkan - Militaerputsch in Jugoslawien -Kapitulation Jugoslawiens - Kapitulation der griechischen Armee - Ausschiffung der britischen Truppen - Das Grosse deutsche Landemanoever auf Kreta - Neuordnung des Balkanraumes. Der Krieg im Osten - Der Ueberfall auf die Sowjetunion am 22. Juni 1941 - Erste Phase des deutschen Angriffes, die grossen Kesselschlachten - Stalin proklamiert den "Grossen Vaterlaendischdn Krieg" - Verbrannte Erde ' Partisaneneinheiten im Ruecken der deutschen Front - Zweite Phase des deutschen Angriffes im Herbst 1941 - Deutsche Truppen vor Moskau, Leningrad und Kaukasos - Sowjetische Winteroffensive 1941/42 - Deutsche Sommeroffensive 1942. Nordafrika -  Deutsch-italienische Offensive im Januar 1942 - Eroberung von Tobruk - Front bei El Alamein.


• Teil 5 - Der totale Krieg JS 3825
  ca. 45 min. - Der Kriegseintritt der USA - Der Handelskrieg - Der japanische Ueberfall auf Pearl Harbor - Die Kriegserklaerungen der Achsenmaechte und der USA. Loesung der Judenfrage - Die Verfolgung der Juden in den besetzten Ostgebieten - Wannsee-Konferenz - Die Vernichtugslager. Der Krieg im Osten - Die Gegenoffensive russischer Truppen im November 1942 an der Wolga - Die Schlacht um Stalingrad - Die Front im Herbst 1943. Nordafrika - Gegenangriff britischer Verbaende unter General Montgomery - Ruckzug des Afrikakorps nach Tunesien - Landung alliierter Truppen in Marokko and Algerien - Die Kapitulation des Afrikakorps in Tunis. Suedeuropa - Der Sturm von Nordafrika und Malta - Die Eroberung von Sizilien, Sardinien und Korsika durch die Alliierten - Landung britischer und amerikanischer Truppen bei Tarent und Salerno - Kriegseintritt Italiens auf der Seite der Alliierten gegen Deutschland. Ostfront - Sowjetische Winteroffensive 1943/44. Die Heimatfront - Angriff angloamerikanischer Bomber auf deutsche Staedte - Die Bevoelkerung bei den Luftangriffen - Zerstoerung des Wohnraumes - Verluste der Zivilbevoelkerung an der Heimatfront. Der totale Krieg - Verkuendung des totalen Krieges durch Josef Goebbels.




• Teil 6 - Die totale Niederlage JS 3826
  ca. 45 min. - Die Ostfront im Fruehjahr und Sommer 1944 - Die Offensive der sowjetischen Truppen im Fruehjahr 1944 Finnland kapituliert, die deutsche Mittelfront bricht zusammen. Die Operation "Overlord" - Landung angloamerikanischer Truppen n der Normandie. Die Widerstandsbewegung - Der 20. Juli 1944, die Detonation der Bombe - Aufstand der Militaers. Der Volksgerichtshof - Die Maenner des 20. Juli vor dem Volksgerichtshof - Widerstandsbewegung 'Weisse Rose'. Die Ostfront im Spaetsommer und Herbst 1944 - Angriff sowjetischer Truppen auf den Balkan - Rueckzug deutscher Truppen aus Griechenland - Titos Partisanen besetzen Belgrad. Die Westfront im Sommer und Herbst 1944 - Alliierte erobern Nordfrankreich - Amerikanische und franzoesische Truppen landen bei Toulon - Kapitulation von Paris, die Alliierten an der deutschen Westgrenze - Deutsche Gegenoffensive in den Ardennen. Die Phrase vom Endsieg - Die Gruendung des Volkssturmes - Hitlers Befehl zur Zerstoerung aller Verkehrs- und Industrieanlagen - Hitlers Befehl zur Verteidigung der deutschen Staedte - Einrichtung von Standgerichten. Die Westfront 1945 -Angriff der Alliierten auf das deutsche Reichsgebiet - Vorstoss der Alliierten bis zum Erzgebirge, Elbe und Oesterreich. Die Ostfront 1945 - Grossangriff von sechs russischen Armeen im Januar 1945 - Flucht der deutschen Bevoelkerung - letzte sowjetische Grossoffensive im April, die Einnahme von Berlin. Das Ende - Hitlers letzte Tage im Bunker der Reichskanzlei in Berlin - Nachfolgeregierung des Grossadmirals Doenitz - Kapitulation der deutschen Streitkraefte - Bilanz des Krieges.

  
  After Mein Kampf DO 903
  England 1940, 43 min. -The life of Adolf Hitler composed of actual documentary scenes and reconstruction of events.

   

  American 1st and 9th Armies: Aachen to the Ruhr River IH 188
  U.S.A. 1945, 58 min., b&w - Two War Department historical films documenting the activities of these armies in 1944. Graphic action in Klenheim, Stolberg, Mausbach and the Hurtigen Forest. Excellent uncensored combat footage.

   

  The Architecture of Doom FRF 778
  English lang., 1991, color/b&w, ca. 119 min. - The video captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture, and popular culture. From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside Hitler's bunker, this sensational film shows how Adolph Hitler rose from being a failed artist to creating a world of ponderous kitsch and horrifying terror. Hitler worshipped ancient Rome and Greece, and dreamed of a new Golden Age of monumental, classical art and architecture, populated by beautiful, patriotic Aryans. "Degenerate" artists and "inferior" races were seen as sub-human vermin, and had no place in his lurid fantasy. As this riveting, critically-acclaimed film shows, the Nazis went from banning the art of modernists like Picasso to forced euthanasia of the retarded and sick, and finally to the persecution of homosexuals and the extermination of Jews.

   

  Achtung Panzer BB 2319
  German tanks at war. 3 tape set, English language, color and b/w, 100 min. each.

  • Part 1 - Steel Tigers
    Includes episode one "Steel Tigers" and episode two "Michael Wittmann-Tiger Ace". The famous Tiger tanks of the German Panzer forces were only available at the hard pressed front in modest quantities, but this tiny force forged a legend out of all proportion to its size. Features: Extensive use of rare footage from Russian, German and allied sources. Superb 3D graphics to illustrate the design and development of the Panzers. The view of the worlds leading tank experts and historians, including David Fletcher, Professor John Erickson and Dr. William Atwell. New footage of the surviving Tigers today and the first extensive biography of Michael Wittmann made for television.
  • Part 2 - Sturmgeschuetze und Panzerjaeger
    Includes episode three "Assault Guns and Tank Hunters" and episode four "Into Battle". The Assault Guns and Tank Hunters of the Panzer Divisions played a vital role in the German army of World War Two. Made with the help of Bovington Tank Museum, the Imperial War Museum, the Muckleburgh Collection and the US Ordnance Museum in Maryland, this exciting new survey of the Panzer forces of World War Two includes: Extensive use of rare footage from Russian, German and allied sources. Superb 3D graphics to illustrate the design and development of the Panzers. The view of the worlds leading tank experts and historians, including David Fletcher, Professor John Erickson and Dr. William Atwell. New footage of the surviving Panzers today. Features the Sturmgeschuetze and variants, the Sturm Tiger, Brumbaer, Nashorn, Jagdpanther, Jagdtiger, Marder, Hetzer, Panzerjaeger IV, Elefant and more.
  • Part 3 - Sturmartillerie
    Includes episode five "Sturmartillerie" and episode six "Anvil of Victory - the Story of Blitzkrieg". The fast moving Panzer Grenadier formations of the Blitzkrieg needed a mobile, well armoured artillery presence to support their lightning thrusts into Poland, France and Russia. They found it in the form of the Sturmartillerie. This is the story of the developments which led to the Wespe, Hummel and the super heavy mortars of the Karl series. Features: Extensive use of rare footage from Russian, German and allied sources. Superb 3D graphics to illustrate the design and development of the Panzers. The view of the worlds leading tank experts and historians, including David Fletcher, Professor John Erickson and Dr. William Atwell. New footage of the surviving Panzers today. Features the self-propelled guns or T17 Wermacht, the Karl Mortar, Wespe, Hummel, Goliath, Grille and more.

  • Afrika Korps IH 274 DVD
    Transferred to videocassette from original 35mm prints for superb audio and visual quality. With English Subtitles. Germany, 1942, B&W, 81 minutes.
    Afrika Korps opens with German Soldiers in Africa, an army film produced for troops ordered to duty on the Dark Continent. Reserves are shown being medically examined and fitted with tropical uniforms, traveling by train to Naples, and encamping there. Supplies are loaded onto steamers, and the unit crosses in convoy to Tripoli. Shown next are scenes of the desert landscape, wildlife, and primitive nomadic tribes. Arab civilization is depicted with footage of cultivated oases and a typical North African village on market day. German troops are seen arriving in Tripoli. Liberal footage showing the city's scenic places is included.
    German Newsreel: February 1942
    German and Italian naval officers participate in a ceremony honoring successful U-boat commanders in the Mediterranean. An Italian battleship protecting a German convoy to Tripoli engages attacking British destroyers in an artillery duel. General Rommel watches Axis field guns bombard advancing enemy tanks. Italian armor counterattacks. British prisoners are shown.
    German Newsreel: June 20th through 26th, 1942
    Colonel Adolf Galland visits an air base in the desert. Lieutenant Marseilles lands in his Me-109 fighter. General Rommel is decorated by Italian General Bastico. German vehicles advance on Bir Hacheim. A British armor attack is repulsed by anti-aircraft guns. A captured battle post which had been disguised by the British as a field hospital is shown. An Allied garrison manned chiefly by "colored" auxiliaries surrenders. General Rommel photographs a shot-down English fighter plane.
    German Newsreel: June 27th through July 3rd, 1942
    German mechanized troops cut off the British garrisons at Acroma and El Gazala. Engineers clear a path through a minefield. Italian flak engages attacking British aircraft. Italian infantry is shown in action. Stuka dive bombers raid Tobruk. German engineers bridge an anti-tank ditch as German armor advances. British soldiers from the Tobruk garrison surrender.
    German Newsreel: July 4th through 7th, 1942
    German 88-millimeter guns take up positions on the Mediterranean coast and bombard British ships evacuating Tobruk harbor. Field Marshal Kesselring flies over the captured city. German troops enter Tobruk as thousands of British soldiers are sent to POW assembly areas. Rommel orders a further advance from his field headquarters.
    German Newsreel: August 8th through 14th, 1942
    Mussolini visits Axis troops in North Africa. A German convoy arrives in Tobruk. Marshal Rommel is seen at the front. Italian Bersaglieri troops are shown in action.
    German Newsreel: August 1942
    German soldiers at a coastal position swim in the Mediterranean. A new well is dug to replace one poisoned by retreating British troops. German reinforcements for the Alamein front pass a caravan enroute to their new positions. Marshals Rommel and Bastico observe a British armored thrust which is repulsed by heavy artillery. Damaged British tanks litter the battlefield. Rommel decorates anti-tank gunner Gunther Halm on August 7th, 1942. (original synchronous sound)
    German Newsreel: October 31st through November 6th, 1942
    A bomber squadron holds a situation conference. Heinkel III bombers are prepared for a long- range mission. Aircraft bomb the British-held Kufra oasis and strafe British flak positions.
    German Newsreel: October 10th through 16th, 1942
    Marshal Rommel, with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels holds a press conference in Berlin. Hitler presents Rommel with a field marshal's baton. Rommel attends the annual "Winter Help" rally in Berlin with Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, and Keitel.

  • Assorted Political Films and Speeches: 1932-1943 IH 264
    This program consists of four short films. In the first, Hitler addresses an informally-gathered civilian crowd during a 1932 election rally. b&w, 14 minutes. In the second, Hitler, Göring and Streicher march to the Feldherrnhalle to honor their comrades who died in the 1923 revolt in Munich. b&w, 7 minutes. The third presents Hitler's address in Vienna after the take-over of Austria in March, 1938. b&w 4 minutes. The fourth contains excerpts from Goebbels' famous "Do you want total war?" speech of February 18th, 1943. b&w, 6 minutes. Germany, 1932--1943, all four films on one videocassette, total running time 31 minutes, English subtitles.

  • Auf Den Spuren Ostpreussens Im Kaliningrader Gebiet CH 594
    (On the Trail of East Prussia in Kaliningrad Territory)
    German language, documentary, b/w, ca. 60 min.

  Attack and Retreat BB 389
  1965, b/w, ca. 140 min. - Starring Peter Falk and Arthur Kennedy in an explosive chronicle of the Italian-Russian front during WW2. The story follows an Italian squad through the battle for Stalingrad and their terrible defeat and retreat through the disastrous winter that followed. This defeat, more than anything else in the war, meant the end of the Third Reich and the Italian fascist regime. Attack and Retreat, along with the original 1958 German version of Stalingrad, provided may of the images and scenes that were used later in the two modern classics The Winter War and Stalingrad (1991). In English language.

   

   

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