Swastika/The Double Headed Eagle

Synopsis: SWASTIKA (Becker and Mora, 1973) met with a tumultuous reception at Cannes in 1973, and was subsequently banned in Germany until 2010, when it was acknowledged for its significant contribution to understanding Hitler and Nazism; as stated in its opening credits, "If Hitler is dehumanized and shown only as a devil, any future Hitler may not be recognized, simply because he is a human being." Philippe Mora uses colour home movie footage shot by Eva Braun to present the private life of Adolf Hitler. This footage is culled together by Philippe Mora to form an in-depth autobiography of Hitler’s rise and fall, following his life from the rise of the Nazi state to the end of World War II.

THE DOUBLE HEADED EAGLE (Becker, 1974) charts the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis from 1918 to Hitler’s election as Chancellor in 1933 and consists of a series of images with no accompanying narration. Set out in chapters, each concerned with a different year, beginning in 1933, at the end of the Weimar and the start of Hitler’s rule and his first speech as Chancellor to the German people in the Berlin Sports Palace. Includes footage from 1926 showing convoys of young Nazis travelling through the forests of Bavaria and the Nuremberg rally of 1927.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2013
Subjects: History
Keywords: Hitler, Adolf; home movies; Nazi Germany; World War II

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