Zentralfilmgesellschaft Ost
The central film company Ost mbH was a German film production company based in Berlin . It was founded after the German invasion of the USSR on November 10, 1941 in order to make the film studios and cinemas of the occupied territories usable for the purposes of German film propaganda . The stolen production facilities in Riga , Reval and Kiev were transferred to subsidiaries: Ostland-Film-Gesellschaft mbH was established in Riga and Ukraine-Film-Gesellschaft mbH in Kiev. These companies set up traveling cinemas, opened permanent cinemas and repaired damaged cinemas. Among other things, they made sure that before each liquidation of a ghetto , i. H. the evacuation of residents in extermination , which in the non-Jewish population antisemitic atmosphere through the screening of the film Jew Suss was fueled. In addition, the Zentralfilmgesellschaft Ost also produced a number of its own films.