WWII Newsreel History of the Third Reich, Volume 2

Experience the Second World War through the German newsreel footage that fed the hungry German nation. Shown in the cinemas throughout the war, it was through this medium that Goebbels' propaganda ministry sold its misinformation to the German public, often completely fabricating the events of the war in their favor. Beginning in 1936, the second part of this 20-piece series concentrates on the events that occurred up to 1939 as Germany prepared for the Second World War.

Don't be misled by the title: the A NEWSREEL HISTORY OF THE THIRD REICH series does not construct a factual history of the rise and fall of Hitler's Reich from newsreel footage screened for the Allies, but deliberately presents an assemblage of distorted, fallacious, and propagandistic newsreel clips shot by the Nazis for German audiences during World War II. The preponderance of footage at hand was seized from the S.S. by the Russians and provides a window into how WWII-era Germans perceived the events of the war, and how Hitler's government "spun" those events to them. This second volume covers the prewar years of 1936-39.