ID

FBW001066      Short documentary

Country / Year

USA, 1969

Original Title

Hitler: Anatomy of A Dictator

Directed by

[?]

Produced by

Society for Teaching History, New York, NY

Length

30'

Format

16mm/sw

Remarks

Enthält Archivmaterial.

Abstract

About the beginning of Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and during the years of the occupation in Europe. Included is footage on the harassment of Jews, scenes from the Warsaw ghetto of starvation and death, deportations by train and camp inmates after liberation.

Subject Terms

Anti-Semitism; Deportations; Ghettos; Concentration camp prisoners; Nuremberg; Poland; Warsaw; Warsaw (Ghetto)

Holdings

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem

Contents (detailed)

AB Profile of Hitler's rise to power. How did he achieve such power? Why did Germany and the other nations allow his rise? Scenes of Hitler in front of troops, Nov 1918, Germany - communists and reactionaries in streets, chaos, stills of AB National Socialists, Hitler, crowds, 1923 Hitler's coup to overthrow Bavarian government fails, jail where he spent prison term, stills of Hitler making speeches, voiceover of speech, Nazis with swastikas
AB crowd clapping at Hitler, president Paul von Hindenburg, torchlight celebration of Hitler becoming chancellor, SS, parliament, Nazi salute, bookburning, painting Magen David on shops, stills of Nazi persecution, Nazi rally at AB Nuremberg, children in Nazi youth movements, German navy ships, armed forces, tanks, 1936 German troops occupied Rhinelands, 1938 annexed Austria, Chamberlain signing agreement regarding Czechoslovakia, Germans occupied it
AB Germans invaded Poland, wounded Poles, invaded France, scenes of German war machine, Operation Eagle (bombing of Britain), 1941
Operation Barbarossa against Russia, ghettos, putting bodies in coffins, Jews rounded up, marching
AB Jews being herded into trains, stills of Jews in concentration camps, Churchill and Roosevelt, war in the snow in Russia, German prisoners of war, troops on Normandy beach, damage caused by attempt on Hitler's life in 1944
AB Liberating armies, Hitler encouraging young boys going to the front line, bombing of Berlin