Hitler Lives
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hitler Lives |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1945 |
| length | 17 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Don Siegel |
| script | Saul Elkins |
| production | Gordon Hollingshead |
| music | William Lava |
| camera | De Leon Anthony |
| cut | Harry Komer |
| occupation | |
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Hitler Lives is an American short - documentary from Warner Bros. from the year 1945 was directed by Don Siegel . The film warns of Germany's recovery after its defeat in World War II .
action
The documentary paints a picture of the Germans as eternal aggressors. The film refers to three war-loving "leaders" who are then presented in chapters: Otto von Bismarck , Wilhelm II , who is here blamed for the First World War , and finally Adolf Hitler . The speaker speaks cynically of the peaceful interim times that have occurred again and again and warns of a fourth leader from the midst of this warlike people who has not yet shown himself. This is how the film justifies the occupation of Germany . Equally drastic images are shown, such as the mountains of corpses in the concentration camps and those of the mass graves on the Eastern Front . In the end, the film warns of fascist and National Socialist agitators in their own country.
background
The film draws on motifs and footage from the film Your Job in Germany (1945), which was produced shortly before for internal military purposes and was written by Theodor Seuss Geisel . The differences to the previous film, from which numerous scenes were taken, lie in the much more drastic depiction of the Nazi crimes, the urgent warning against the evil spirit of Nazism spilling over into the USA and, at the end of the film, the call for a lasting, peaceful world order build up. Saul Elkins wrote the new script and the comments were rewritten by Knox Manning . The film, originally written for the United States Army Signal Corps , could thus be used commercially. At the Academy Awards in 1946 , the film was awarded an Oscar for best documentary short film.
Web links
- Hitler Lives in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hitler Lives on the Internet Archive
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Niemi: History in the Media: Film and Television . ABC-CLIO, 2006, ISBN 978-1-57607-952-2 , pp. 84 .
- ↑ Hitler Lives. (No longer available online.) AMC Program Guide , archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved February 16, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Academy Awards for 1946. Internet Movie Database , accessed February 16, 2013 .
