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Life in Nazi Germany

Subject

German studies; History

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette CD, 60 minutes), £5.99 (cassette) £9.99 (CD)

Eyewitness accounts of 11 men and women covering the impact of Nazism on daily life, race policy and civilian wartime experiences. (Does not include cencentration camp survivors.)

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Pioneers in Art and Science: Metzger (2004)

aka: Metzger

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 139 minutes), £14.99

A documentary on the life and work of Gustav Metzger, founder of Auto Destructive Art. This film looks at the Scale of Metzger’s achievements and his contribution to contemporary culture. From Freud to...

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Mephisto (1981 Film)

Director

István Szabó

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Feature film. A study of Nazi Germany loosely based on personalities of the time. A provincial actor in 1920s and 1930s Germany finds his success is interrupted by Nazism. Based on the novel by Klaus Mann.

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Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? (1990 Video)

aka: Holocaust, The: Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

Director

Jill Fullerton-Smith

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Re-examines memories of Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry on the eve of German unification. Explores the controversial ideas of author Professor Arno Mayer and the wider arguments about...

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Turned Toward the Sun (2015)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £6.98

Documentary about the true-life story of British writer and poet Micky Burn. Born in Mayfair in 1912, his father worked for the Royal family. He became the lover of the communist spy Guy Burgess, and would...

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Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany - Set 1 (1984)

aka: Heimat: Eine Deutsche Chronik

Subject

German studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 924 minutes), £59.99

Shot over two years, Edgar Reitz’s 11-part series HEIMAT, made for German television, is a semi-autobiographical drama telling the the saga of a German family, living in a small village, from the end of...

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Berlin Alexanderplatz (2007)

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Subject

German studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 910 minutes), £54.99

Fassbinder’s television serialisation of Alfred Döblin’s novel ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’, made in 13 parts plus epilogue. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf who, on his release from prison, is...

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Images of the Soviet Union at War 1941-1945 (1990)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £60.00

Explores the role played by the British newsreels in creating and reflecting the growth of pro-Russian feeling in Britain during the second world war. When the Soviet Union was attacked by the Germans in...

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It Happened Here (1964 Video)

Director

Kevin Brownlow; Andrew Mollo

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £14.99

A semi-professional production that tells of life in England under a supposed German occupation if the Nazis had invaded in 1940 as planned. A chilling reminder of what might have been had Nazism not been...

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Our Hitler: A Film from Germany (2007)

aka: Hitler: Ein Film aus Deutschland and Hitler: A Film from Germany

Director

Hans Jürgen Syberberg

Subject

Drama; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 450 minutes), $79.95

"The most extraordinary film I have ever seen," says Susan Sontag of director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg’s epic nightmare rumination on Adolf Hitler, the cultural mechanisms underlying his mythic rise, and the...

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