希特勒流行歌

This movie is a "collage" or a puzzle, made of professional and private movie bits, accompanied by original German songs of the late thirties and forties. The arrangement is very special: Every song has its own "chapter" with a title which captures a typical slogan or feeling of war times. The song is either contrasting the pictures or accompanying them, and the movie starts with showing the perfect beauty, strength and optimism of a "New Germany", but then also displays the schizoid character of the country at that time. You can hardly refuse the joyful musical scenes, the broadcasting spots, the cheerful announcements of successes, technical inventions and achievements, but in a very subtle way you suddenly see Jews, who are getting shaved their heads by Nazis, together with charming songs you are confronted with a dead soldier in close-ups and so on. In fact, after having seen this movie you cannot simply say that the times were only terrible: The horror came later, first it was wrapped up in shiny paper, made of style, elegance and music, made by people, who believed in arts and intelligence. Everyone who sees this movie - I can only recommend it - has to ask himself where he would have been at that time. A very hard question.