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Hitler's American business partners documentary film on Youtube youtube.com :: 2010-03-16
WW2 documentary film "Hitler's American business partners" reveals the unholy alliance between Nazi Germany and some of the biggest corporations in the U.S. – companies, which were essential for Adolf Hitler to wage war. Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, James D Mooney, the General Motors manager and Tom Watson, the IBM boss, were all awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the Nazis' highest distinction for foreigners, for their services to the Third Reich.
Student documentary film reveals how Soviet Union herded Ethnic Germans into death camps websterkirkwoodtimes.com :: 2010-02-20
Students at St. Louis Community College-Meramec (STLCC) have created an in-depth, feature-length documentary film "The Forgotten Genocide." The documentary film reveals the suffering of Ethnic Germans behind the Iron Curtain. At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union systematically drove Ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe into death camps for the purpose of extinction. By examining relics of the era and carrying out interviews with German survivors of a little-known historical atrocity, students are unfolding this forgotten story.
Hitler's Children: Descendants of Göring, Eichmann speak out in documentary film ynetnews.com :: 2010-01-20 :: Famous Nazi Descendants: Reich ancestry
A small group of Germans are slowly coming to grips with the crimes of their fathers and grandfathers. After the end of WW2 the descendants of the Nazi leaders were left a legacy that links them to the horrors of the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler did not have children. Joseph and Magda Goebbels killed their 6 kids in Hitler's bunker in 1945. But what about the families of Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann? In "Hitler's Children" the Nazi descendants discuss the struggle between the admiration that children have toward their parents and their revulsion of their crimes.
As Seen Through These Eyes - documentary film explores artists who painted for Nazi captors theepochtimes.com :: 2009-10-05 :: World War II Documentary films
The same talents that lead to work in the Warner Brothers and MGM animation studios saved Dina Gottliebova Babbit's life in Auschwitz. The Dr. Mengele spared the 19-year-old girl so she could be his personal artist, painting portraits for the Nazi guards and documenting his cruel experiments. For many young Jewish and Roma artists, keeping up their creative voices during the Nazi Holocaust was a means of spiritual and even physical survival, and their work now serves as solemn testimony to the crimes of the National Socialists in Hilary Helstein's documentary film "As Seen Through These Eyes".
Hitler’s Attack: How World War Two Began - German-Polish WWII documentary film pr-inside.com :: 2009-08-27 :: Causes & Origins of WWII
Deutsche Welle and TVP Polonia publicized the film "Hitler's Assault: How World War Two Began" - a groundbreaking German-Polish documentary about the beginning of World War II - with the premiere at the Polish Institute in Berlin. 70 years after the Nazi invasion of Poland, this documentary film was created by filmmakers from both countries to explore this dark chapter in German-Polish history from different perspectives. "70 years after the outbreak of the war... we must once again examine this period - but by way of facts and knowledge rather than prejudices and myths," said Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy.
Documentary film Yasukuni explores Japan's view of World War II via Yasukuni shrine nj.com :: 2009-08-13 :: World War II Documentary films
Over 60 years after the end of World War Two, many Japanese still refuse to accept blame for the war or wartime actions. Imperialist aggression? No, says one man in "Yasukuni," this was about "the liberation of Asia!" There are millions of Chinese, Koreans and Filipinos who disagree. What about war crimes like comfort women, slave labor, medical experiments, death marches, the rape of Nanking? "A Chinese fabrication! The biggest lie in all of history" another answers. In some parts of Japan, it is still 1941, all day long. "Yasukuni" tries to draw them into the present, by focusing on the controversial Yasukuni shrine.
Documentary film series Hitler's Bodyguard - Over 40 plots to kill Hitler timesonline.co.uk :: 2009-08-07
It seems that everyone had a plot to kill Adolf Hitler, not just Claus von Stauffenberg. The 40 plots against Hitler's life, as well as details about his security squads (uncovered from SS archives), are revealed in a documentary series "Hitler’s Bodyguard". The 4-disc set contains 13 episodes. Here are covered not just familiar leading nazis such as Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, Josef Goebbels and Albert Speer, but also men like Sepp Dietrich, Bruno Gesche, Otto Strasser, Ulrich Graf, Ernst Röhm, Julius Streicher, Reinhard Heydrich and Walter Stennes - not to forget Sturmabteilung (SA, or Brown Shirts), Schutzstaffel (SS) and Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo).
The Rocket Man - 20 min documentary film about Wernher von Braun huntsvilletimes :: 2009-07-19
20-minute documentary film "Wernher von Braun: The Rocket Man" uses archival footage and associates' words to explore 4 decades of his career, from work in Nazi Germany through the Saturn/Apollo years and his campaign in the 1970s to create the U.S. Space and Rocket Center and Space Camp program. The film is produced and written by Ed Buckbee - a former NASA public affairs officer - who reveals that von Braun, in addition to being a visionary and the engineer and manager behind the Saturn V moon rocket and Apollo landings, was a natural for the cameras. The film also includes recent interviews with people who knew von Braun well, like his secretary Bonnie Holmes.
Unsurrendered 100 Voices - Documentary explores the WWII Filipino Guerillas and Bolomen battlingbastardsbataan.com :: 2009-06-09
Documentary film Unsurrendered 100 Voices - by Peter Parsons and Lucky Guillermo - explores the spontaneous movement that emerged all over the Philippines when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Philippines in 1941. This resistance did not wait for defeat and surrender. There were both Filipinos and Americans who went to the hills as early as December of 1941, when MacArthur declared Manila open city. Because Parsons is the son of Cmdr. Chick Parsons, who organized the submarines that supplied the guerrillas, this film also covers the importance of these submarines - but from the point of view and in the voices of the guerrilla speakers.
Documentary film focuses on Veit Harlan, director of Nazi propaganda film Jud Suess reuters.com :: 2009-05-01 :: Nazi Propaganda
A German film focuses on a man many would rather forget: Veit Harlan, director of Nazi propaganda film Jud Suess. "Harlan - Im Schatten von Jud Suess" (Harlan - In the Shadow of Jew Suess) concentrates on his most notorious work, retrospecting at his output through the eyes of the family he left behind. Director Felix Moeller hoped not only to examine the "taboo" subject of Harlan, but also how the family had dealt with the legacy of his work for Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. "Jud Suess," which opened in 1940, was mandatory viewing for Heinrich Himmler's SS (Schutzstaffel) and was shown to local populations under Nazi occupation before mass deportations of Jews.
WWII documentary film Lost in Libya explores the legendary Long Range Desert Group stuff.co.nz :: 2009-04-23 :: World War II Documentary films
WW2 documentary film Lost in Libya follows 3 amateur historians' travel to the heart of the Sahara to find the untouched site of a battle between the legendary Long Range Desert Group and the Italian forces. The film includes the only known historical footage of a group of specialist soldiers in action during the Second World War. The Long Range Desert Group was an elite force with special skills in navigation, desert warfare and survival. The group's main aim was to provide detailed maps and information about Nazi positions from deep behind enemy lines in the Libyan Desert without being detected.
Documentary film Swastika shown in Germany after 36 year ban wehonews.com :: 2009-04-21 :: WW2 Footage
Philippe Mora's and Lutz Becker's 1973 WW2 documentary film about how Nazis penetrated German lives was banned from showing in Germany after fights erupted at its first screening in Cannes. Now it will premiere in Germany: at the Biberach Film Festival. Mora discovered Eva Braun's home movies - rare color footage filmed by Adolf Hitler's mistress Eva Braun - in the National Archives in 1972, and combining it together with other Nazi-era footage by the Nazi Party, created a film that reveals how Hitler seized the imagination of a state. Mora: "The film was made to show that Hitler was a human being. If we don't recognize that fact, we won't see the next monster coming."
Documentary: Women in The Military: Willing, Able, and Essential paveteransmuseum.org :: 2009-04-19 :: World War II Documentary films
Since America's founding, women have been driven by patriotic zeal to serve their country. From uncommon soldiers who disguised themselves to saw combat and nurses that faced terrible injures to those who wear the uniform in battle zones today, women have contributed to American military might. "Women in The Military: Willing, Able, and Essential" is their story. Massive changes in women's military contributions took place during World War II as increased recruitment and expanded opportunities allowed 400,000 to serve in almost all noncombat positions.
Toyo's Camera : Japanese American History during World War II Article no longer available from the original source. :: yomiuri.co.jp :: 2009-04-14
Photographer Toyo Miyatake, who was sent to an internment camp in California during the Second World War, documented his time there using a makeshift camera. Now his photographs are featured in a documentary film about life in the camps and racism in the United States. "Toyo's Camera - Japanese American History during WWII" was premiered at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Meguro Ward. Using a lens Miyatake hid in his pocket and pipes found at Manzanar camp, he put together a camera with the help of other Japanese-Americans. He took about 1500 pictures with his "spy camera" before his release in November 1945.
Rzhev: Marshal Zhukov's Unknown Battle - WW2 documentary film upsets Russians historynet.com :: 2009-03-11 :: Operation Barbarossa - WWII Eastern Front
"Rzhev: Marshal Zhukov's Unknown Battle" is the sort of film that would have been praised in the West. But not in Russia, where its presenter Alexei Pivovarov is a traitor. 1.5 million people died during the Rzhev campaign 1942-1943, mostly Russians. This huge death toll was result of Josef Stalin's disregard for his own men and of the screwups of Soviet generals. But Russians know little of the Rzhev battles because they have been airbrushed from history. Even Georgy Zhukov, who led the Rzhev campaigns, scarcely talks about them in his memoirs. In the film one German veteran expressed his horror at how the Soviet soldiers were treated as "cannon fodder".
The Inheritance of War: WW2 documentary film tells of the American POWs mormontimes.com :: 2009-01-24 :: World War II Documentary films
The Inheritance of War vividly depicts the struggles of a certain class of World War II prisoners of war - those who fought for the U.S. on the Philippines. "Inheritance" hits home with resounding effect as it tells the sobering story of American soldiers who became POWs on April 9, 1942, when the America surrendered the Philippines to Japan. Those soldiers who survived the Bataan Death March and remained alive for the duration of the war were under Japanese control for over 40 months. Director Ashley Karras combines National Archives war footage with interviews of POWs to reveal the grim realities and brutality of life as POWs under Japanese control.
Red Terror on the Amber Coast - Lithuanian resistance to Soviet control projo.com :: 2009-01-08 :: Lithuania: Nazis, Waffen SS & WWII
Adolf Hitler's plan to kill the Jews is well known. But Josef Stalin's attempts to change the face of Eastern Europe has been almost lost to history. Red Terror documentary concentrates on Lithuanian resistance to Soviet control 1939-1993, dispelling the glamour that some films and books have bestowed on Communism. It uses archival photographs, newsreel footage and eyewitness accounts by members of the resistance movement to show the soviet atrocities. There also are epic stories of how the resistance was started by kids (whose parents were taken to Siberia) who refused to be forced into the Red Army and how they set up secret bunkers in the forests.
Behind Closed Doors - Stalin, the Nazis and the West [documentary] telegraph.co.uk :: 2008-11-10 :: Stalin
Historian Laurence Rees's series reveals the truth about Stalin's wartime alliances. When do you think WWII ended? In 1945? If you believe that the end of the war was supposed to have brought freedom to the countries, then for millions of people the war did not end until the fall of Communism. In 1945 the people of Poland, of the Baltic States and of a number of other countries swapped the rule of one tyrant, Adolf Hitler, for another, Joseph Stalin. To demonstrate this bitter reality the presidents of Estonia and Lithuania refused to visit Moscow in 2005 to take part in "celebrations" marking the 60th anniversary of the "end of the war" in Europe.
Original Patriots: Northern California Indian Veterans of World War II humboldtbeacon.com :: 2008-11-08 :: World War II Documentary films
KEET-TV will broadcast "Original Patriots: Northern California Indian Veterans of WWII" on Nov. 9 and Nov. 11 to mark Veterans Day. When America joined the Allies in 1941, a generation of Native American people from California joined the fight. They served in spite of the fact that many were not born as citizens of the United States. Native Americans were not given U.S. citizenship until 1924. Although their stories are not often told, they are part of "The Greatest Generation.” In this documentary film Lee Hover, Frank Richards, and Wally Scott recount their struggle at Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and D-Day, and share their views on the costs of war.
Last Flight Home documentary film - Recovering World War II remains post-gazette.com :: 2008-10-12
The BentProp Project is a team of volunteers committed to recovering the remains of WWII airmen killed in action in the South Pacific nation of Palau. Now their work has been packaged for the first time in a film. "Last Flight Home," made by two members of the BentProp team, is a look at these adventurers as they search the waters and jungles for the 200 planes shot down by the Japanese in 1944. Today Palau is a tourist destination, but the remote islands are also a battleground mostly forgotten by military history. Corsairs, Hellcats, TBF Avengers and B-24 Liberators litter the jungle and shallow waters around the islands.
Weird Weapons: The Axis -- WWII documentary thehistorychannel.co.uk :: 2008-10-11 :: Strange Weapons
1939-1945 the world was locked in a fierce military struggle. When the smoke of World War Two cleared, off-the-wall stories of extraordinary armaments began to emerge. This WWII documentary reveals far fetched weaponry dreamed up by Allied and Axis scientists. From a battleship made of ice, to a fleet of pigeon-guided missiles, film examines the weird weapons of World War II. In an even stranger attempt at animal-based warfare, the "bat bomb" (to be released over Japanese industrial targets) - a project endorsed by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt – was orchestrated by an American dentist.
P38 pilots crashes in jungle among headhunters - Documentary Injury Slight injuryslight.com :: 2008-10-03 :: World War II Documentary films
When Colonel Charles Sullivan's P-38 Lighting was downed in the jungles of Papua, New Guinea, the fighter pilot did not know if he would ever see his home again. Nor did he know that his adventures would catch the attention of independent filmmaker Josh Baxter. Sullivan survived for 30 days in the jungle, only with the few resources he was able to get from his wrecked plane and a native New Guinea tribe that took him in. He soon found out that the natives he bonded with were headhunters. After a standoff with the natives, Sullivan was assaulted and had to shoot his way out of the village and continue his journey as a hunted man.
The Soviet Story documentary - Similarity of Nazi and Soviet systems charter97 :: 2008-05-25
The aim of The Soviet Story is to show the similarity of the Nazi and Soviet systems. The Marxist dream of the "new man" mirrored the Nazi idea of racial superiority. The Nazis killed on racial grounds, while the Soviets focused on class. One sequence shows pairs of posters: muscular workers support the party, blonde little girls... Without the swastika or hammer and sickle, it would be hard to know which is which. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: Soviet radio guided Luftwaffe bombers in their attacks on Poland. A Soviet naval base aided the Nazi attack on Norway. The Soviet secret police trained the Gestapo.
Documentary films explore life under Nazi Germany and Soviet Union nj :: 2008-03-11
The latest from director Bruno Monsaingeon are 2 hour-long films on 20th-century Russian music: "The Red Baton: Scenes of Musical Life in Stalinist Russia" and "Gennadi Rozhdestvensky: Conductor or Conjurer?" "The Red Baton" explores the psychic torture artists suffered in a society so insane that Rozhdestvensky, looking back, doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. --- Enrique Sanchez Lansch's well researched film "The Reichsorchester: The Berlin Philharmonic and the Third Reich" reveals the Berlin Philharmonic's history as both a Nazi propaganda tool and a morale booster for German citizens.
Japanese-American Forced Labor on an American Indian Reservation abcnews :: 2008-02-20 :: Internment camps & Internees
For Japanese-Americans, Feb. 19 marks the Day of Remembrance. That's the day in 1942 when Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 and started the forced removal and imprisonment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry: 60% of whom were American citizens. Military officials regarded anyone of Japanese descent to be a potential spy. Documentary "Passing Poston: An American Story" reveals a little-known secret about the Poston internment camp. It was built on the Colorado River Indian Reservation for a particular reason: Detainees were brought to the remote location to provide forced labor for the American government.
The Ants (Ari no Heitai) - Japanese Imperial soldier left in China after WW2 canoe :: 2008-02-15 :: Japanese Imperial Army
The Ants (Ari no Heitai) is a documentary film about Japanese troops left in China after World War 2. The film follows Waichai Okumura, a former Imperial soldier who battled against the communists in China's civil war. The men followed orders and fought like worker ants, "for the resurgence of Japanese imperialism." When he was able to travel back to Japan 9 years after WW2 had ended, Okumura was astonished to find his government had disowned these soldiers. The men were labeled as mercenaries and denied their pensions; A handful of soldiers went after the Japanese authorities to tell the truth about why the men had been fighting.
Rare World War II footage screened at Mumbai fest nowrunning :: 2008-02-07 :: World War II Documentary films
8 documentaries on World War II screened at the Mumbai Film Festival (MIFF) have disclosed many unknown details about the Indian armed forces' contribution to the Allied war against the Axis forces. The films included "Battle of Britain", "Battle of Russia", "Cameraman At War", "Delhi Viceroy Parade", "Divide and Conquer", "Invincible", "Prelude to War" and "Town Meeting of the World" - produced by the Films Division of the govt of India. "When all the warring forces got their manpower through conscription, only Indian Army comprised voluntary soldiers." Winston Churchill remarked: "Indian armed forces was the largest voluntary army in history".
The Nazi plan to kill WWII leaders in Tehran - Documentary series rian :: 2008-01-05 :: WWII documentary series
The British Big Ape Media TV company and the Moscow TV Center are producing documentary series "The Lion and the Bear" about Russian-British relations over 4 centuries, partly presented by Winston Churchill's granddaughter Celia Sandys. One of the sections is dedicated to the Tehran meeting in 1943, when Hitler's agents plotted to destroy the Big Three in one strike. The "Long Jump" operation to assassinate the Big Three was masterminded on Hitler's orders by Otto Scorzeny. The first tip-off about the attack came from Soviet spy Nikolai Kuznetsov, aka Wermacht Oberleutnant Paul Siebert, who got an SS man Ulrich von Ortel to spill the secret over a bottle of brandy.
Hitler's Favourite Royal - The story of Prince Charles Edward telegraph :: 2007-12-10 :: British Nazis: Royals - Oswald Diana Mosley
Where does sensitive covering of a tricky subject end and unmerited sympathy begin? Take the story of Prince Charles Edward: Born in 1884 he was Queen Victoria’s youngest grandchild, first cousin of a king, a kaiser and a tsar, yet safely at the back of the line of succession so destined for a life of privilege as a minor member of the British Royal Family. Yet he became a senior German general in World War I and later one of Adolf Hitler’s confidants and champions. What cannot be interpreted as tragic was Charles Edward’s embracing of Nazism. As one of the first of the old elite to endorse Hitler he may well have been "instrumental" in his rise to power.
WWII documentary: My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner reginaleaderpost :: 2007-11-18
Documentary "My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner" is about the diary of a German civilian, chronicling nation's descent into the madness of Nazism. Kellner was an administrator in the German justice system when he began recording a secret diary after Adolf Hitler's troops stormed into Poland in 1939. "My first great relief was to find he hadn't been a Nazi, that he'd opposed them in the best way he could," said His American grandson Scott Kellner, who was given the 860-page diaryin 1968. "He told me at that time what he witnessed in Germany in the 1930s and '40s was happening again with the totalitarian regime of the Soviet Union."
Battles of Belief in World War II - The story of American radio warfare minnesota.publicradio :: 2007-09-21 :: World War II Documentary films
It's easy to look back on the Seoncd World War and get the impression that America was united in fighting "The Good War." Battles of Belief, a documentary from American RadioWorks, tells 2 little-known stories that reveal the struggle for hearts and minds in wartime. Using rare archival recordings and interviews with former spies, the program tells the story of radio warfare. [real-audio]
Documentary: My Enemy's Enemy - The West and Klaus Barbie empiremovies.com :: 2007-09-20
"My Enemy's Enemy" by Kevin Macdonald, is a history lesson detailing the disturbing record of complicity between notorious war criminals, specifically the Butcher of Lyon: Klaus Barbie, and the West after the Second World War. Although he was held accountable for the murder of French Resistance leader Jean Moulin, as well as for the deaths of 44 children, the U.S. found his communist-hunting tactics to be quite useful during the Cold War. Klaus Barbie would later "disappear" to Bolivia (with the help of the Catholic Church), where he would become a powerful businessman and enlist the help of some of his old Nazi brethren in a bid to build a Fourth Reich in the Andes.
Documentary "Most Honorable Son" Japanese-American combat vet lustron :: 2007-06-30
"I had to fight like hell just for the right to fight for my own country," says WWII combat veteran Ben Kuroki, who as a Japanese-American faced red tape in his bid to be an Army Air Corps gunner. He was one of only a handful of Nisei to see air combat and the only one to see such duty over mainland Japan. Seeing the PR windfall of a Japanese-American combat hero the war department put him on the public speaking circuit. By parading him around it was hoped his example would reverse racism and boost Nisei recruits. The mere fact he survived Ploesti, a costly low altitude bombing raid made at oil refineries, is a story in itself.
WWII Documentary of Vivian Bullwinkel: An Australian Heroine smh :: 2007-04-26
The death of Vivian Bullwinkel in 2000 brought to a new generation the story of the Australian nurse who survived a massacre by Japanese troops on a beach near Sumatra and internment in a POW camp. Her story has not been given a thorough documentary treatment to date, an astonishing oversight given the mini-industry around the Australian soldiers. This documentary begins in Singapore just before the bombing of Pearl Harbour and follows the Broken Hill-trained nurse as she alone survives the massacre that claimed 21 Australian nurses soon after the sinking of their ship.
Documentary explores the Nazis’ looting, pillaging of art and architecture dailynexus :: 2007-04-20
Most WWII documentaries focus on the loss of life that occurred during Adolf Hitler’s regime. "The Rape of Europa" is not that type of history film. It deals more with property than people, as it explores the Nazis’ systematic looting of priceless works of art and architecture during World War II. Combining interviews with both archival and contemporary footage, the film presents the tale of the terrors via the fresh perspective of how Nazi regime wreaked havoc on art treasures in the many countries Wehrmacht conquered, as well as the destruction done to works of art and architecture during both the Allied and Axis bombings.
Documentary Hitler's Canadians: Nazi escape from Canada to U.S. canoe :: 2007-03-12
Escape from Canada to the neutral ground of the US was the goal of many imprisoned Nazis during the early years of World War II. A total of 40,000 captured Nazis were dumped into Canadian POW camps, where it was hoped they would be too far away from Europe to cause any real trouble. The presence of Nazis on Canadian soil didn't get a lot of publicity, since the govt didn't want to cause a panic. "But once they started escaping, that became a real scandal. ... All the prisoners were perceived as Nazis, and not all of them were, necessarily. But there were some pretty tough characters running around loose. In war time that was a real fear."
Two Russian documentaries about the horrors of World War II Article no longer available from the original source. :: tjw :: 2007-03-09
Gerhard M. was an amateur photographer - It helped him document his daily life in Nazi Germany and his activities on the Russian front as a member of Nazis’ Field Order police unit. "Amateur Photographer" recounts his story in his own words (diaries found in the KGB archives) and images. He seems to be a true believer, a Hitler Youth graduate who parrots the Nazi line when writing his "fighting for freedom." --- Sergei Loznitsa uses equally striking film footage for his film "Blockade." Drawing on the only extant movies of the 900-day siege of Leningrad, 3 hours of newsreels shot during Sept 1941 and Jan 1944, he constructs a narrative of a city fighting for its life.
The Reckoning - Documentary on Dutch Nazi Resistance debuts wzzm13 :: 2007-02-03
A local film production company is receiving rave reviews for a film about the Dutch resistance to the Nazis, and members of the resistance who live right in West Michigan. Through words, pictures and interviews, the documentary "The Reckoning" shows how a few Dutch teenagers and 20-somethings defied the Nazis during World War 2. A local survivor's memories help tell the story, but 87 year old Diet Emmon says she finds a new documentary about the Dutch Resistance to Nazi occupiers difficult to watch. Film producer Corey Niemchick says "They took incredible risks. Many risked their lives."
My Dad, The War Criminal - documentary nypost :: 2007-01-19
Hanns Ludin isn’t much more than a footnote in the histories of the Shoah. He is mentioned only once in William Shirer’s "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," in connection with his being thrown out of the Wehrmacht for supporting Hitler in 1930; twice in Hans Hohne’s history of the SS for his ability to survive as an SA officer after the "Night of the Long Knives". He may be a minor Nazi functionary, albeit a doggedly loyal one, but he was important enough for the Czechs to have tried, and hanged in 1947. In "Two or Three Things I Know About Him," Malte Ludin explores his father’s role in horrors of WW2.
Documentary: the Auschwitz trial Germany held in the early 1960s local :: 2007-01-12
Using never-before-heard audiotapes, documentary illuminates the so-called Auschwitz trial Germany held in the early 1960s. There are 3 major trials of Nazi war criminals: the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal and the trial of Adolf Eichmann - Both has received attention from filmmakers. But the third, the so-called Auschwitz trial held in Frankfurt, has been neglected by the cinema. In the process of planning a film of the trial, Rolf Bickel and Dieter Wagner discovered that there were 450 hours of audiotape sitting in the basement of the state archive. They set out to make a film "Verdict on Auschwitz."
Professor spent 3 years as an Waffen-SS soldier - documentary hour :: 2006-09-15
Adalbert Lallier, Concordia professor, is haunted by his past: three years spent as an Waffen-SS soldier during which he witnessed the murder of seven persons by his superior officer. The documentary film Once a Nazi... follows Lallier after he voluntarily comes forward, to publicly own up to his Nazi past and to travel to Germany to testify in the last Nazi war crimes tribunal. Although 50 witnesses were called in, his testimony was the key to the conviction of his SS lieutenant, Julius Viel. It also marked the first time a Waffen-SS man ever turned against his superior in a civil court.
Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall - :: 2006-08-10
Adolf Hitler spent the last ten days of his life in a bunker deep under the Chancellery of the Third Reich. Here we are given the story via archival footage as well as extensive interviews with Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary to whom he dictated his will; Rochus Misch, Hitler's bodyguard and courier; Armin D. Lehmann, Hitler's courier responsible for carrying orders from the Führerbunker; Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, tank commander and adjutant to two of Hitler's generals. There is also much film here of Hitler himself, shown with his generals, giving praise to members of the HitlerJugend, and Eva Braun.
Documentary about soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army yomiuri :: 2006-08-07 :: Japanese Imperial Army
Last year, Waichi Okumura visited China for the first time in 61 years. During World War II, Okumura, a former soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army, was stationed there and killed his first man: In 1945 an officer told novice soldiers to bayonet tied farmers. He went to the spot where he killed the man and burned incense sticks for him. While there two local man told him that, the japanese guards stopped fighting after Chinese communist troops attacked. On hearing this, the tone of Okumura's voice changed, although he was being filmed. ...Later he realized what he had been saying - horrified at the thought that he might have changed back into a Japanese soldier.
Film crew to document WWII training helenair :: 2006-04-29 :: WW2 Movies & Films
There isn’t much about this military base that resembles the way it looked in 1942. The technology is new and the men who trained here with the First Special Service Force are mostly gone. But next week, a film crew will begin producing a documentary that chronicles the arduous training that shaped an elite group of soldiers 64 years ago. The outfit went on to achieve fighting fame in World War II and to serve as a model for the Army’s modern Special Forces. "We’re looking at recreating some of the training the First Special Service Force did at Fort Harrison and the Helena area back in 1942."
Journey to Justice documentary: Jewish refugee who became a translator at trials heraldtribune :: 2006-03-31 :: Nuremberg Trials: Nazi War Criminals
It couldn't have been easy for Howard Triest to keep his emotions in check as he questioned Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop and the other Nazi leaders in their Nuremberg jail cells. After all, if Triest had not fled Germany as a teenager in 1939, he likely would have been sent to a death camp, as his parents were. In 1945, Triest was hired to serve as a translator during the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Triest never lost his composure during his many conversations with the defendants. Not when Julius Streicher, the founder of the notorious anti-Semetic newspaper Der Stuermer, mistook Triest for an Aryan and told him that "I can smell a Jew from a mile away."
WWII internment of Aleuts recounted in documentary usatoday :: 2005-12-05 :: WWII Alaska: Aleutian Islands campaign: Attu, Kiska islands
A new documentary film, Aleut Story, includes this testimony from Bourdukofsky and other Aleuts in chronicling the little-known internment of 881 Alaska Natives from the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands during World War II. Many in the film are speaking publicly for the first time about their experiences in the camps, where they were sent after troops from Japan invaded Alaska's western outposts in June 1942.
Forgiving Dr. Mengele - Eva Kor's path to forgiving her persecutors calendarlive :: 2005-11-14 :: WW2 Movies & Films
The documentary chronicles Eva Kor's path to forgiving Dr. Josef Mengele, a Nazi scientist who performed experiments on Kor and her twin sister, Miriam, while they were interred at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The film itself explored the concept of forgiveness, specifically in the context of a survivor forgiving her former persecutors.
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