List of films forbidden under National Socialism

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In National Socialist Germany , every film project or film was subjected to two censorship tests: First, the Reichsfilmdramaturg decided in advance whether a film draft, manuscript or screenplay could even be made into a film; second, after the film was completed, the film testing agency decided whether the film could be shown in the cinemas. Among other things, this preliminary examination may have been the reason why only relatively few films were made in National Socialist Germany that ultimately failed due to censorship. Only a minority of the films listed below were banned because they were in conflict with National Socialist ideology. More often than not, there were movies showing something that changed through the course of the story - e.g. B. the German alliance policy or the war events - was survived and would therefore have led to amusement, confusion or regret about the passage of time in the audience. However, not significantly more bans were issued against, for example, US productions than against German films.

Films completed before 1933 (selection)

Films completed from 1933

Year of the ban by the film inspection body:

1933

1934

1935

1936

1937

  • A song goes around the world (Richard Oswald, 1933)
  • Laughing heirs ( Max Ophüls , 1933)
  • Strong Hearts ( Herbert Maisch , 1937, German premiere in 1953 under the title “Strong Hearts in the Storm”), banned because of his anti-communism, which in Goebbels' view is committed to the traditional, bourgeois, non-ethnic caricature of the “Jewish-Bolshevik world conspiracy”

1938

1939

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Saekel: The US film in the Weimar Republic - a medium of "Americanization" ?: German film industry, cultural policy and media globalization in the focus of transatlantic interests. Verlag Ferdinand Schoeningh, 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77174-2 , p. 169.
  2. ↑ a b c d e censorship decision ( memento of September 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 57 kB)

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