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Mein Kampf. A searing documentary of the rise and fall of Hitler's Germany that catalogues in gruesome detail man's organized inhumanity to man. Culled from newspapers, Nazi propaganda pictures Wehrmacht battle films, and secret-police footage...
Mein Kampf. A calm, fair, objective and appalling documentary of Hitler and his gruesome works, compiled from newsreels, Nazi propaganda pictures, Wehrmacht battle films and secret police footage by Swedish Film Maker Erwin Leiser...
Mein Kampf. A calm, fair, objective and appalling documentary of Hitler and his gruesome works, compiled from news reels, Nazi propaganda pictures, Wehrmacht battle films and secret-police footage by Swedish Film Maker Erwin Leiser...
...examine the great plague he personified. The Eichmann trial is making headlines, and William L. Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has been steadily topping the bestseller list. Now a Swedish Jew named Erwin Leiser has compiled from captured German film-newsreels, Nazi propaganda pictures, Wehrmacht battle films, secret police footage-this calm, fair, objective and appalling picture history of Hitlerism. Exhibited in Germany, Mein Kampf shocked and humbled its audiences (TIME, Sept. 5). U.S. moviegoers will be shaken too. Memorable moments...
...psychological problems of creating the new German army were unique. Though it was to be a democratic army, its first officers obviously had to be veterans of the old Wehrmacht, nearly all of whom had been willing Nazi servants. Strauss set up a special "Inner Leadership" school in Koblenz where the officers were shown movies of Nazi atrocities, given handbooks on democratic treatment of subordinates. The government provided elaborate legal safeguards for the new soldier's rights and easily accessible channels through which he could air his citizen gripes. A West German soldier is told: "A command must...