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Cinema and the Swastika AlsobyRoelVandeWinkel NAZINEWSREELPROPAGANDAINTHESECONDWORLDWAR AlsobyDavidWelch NAZIPROPAGANDA:ThePowersandtheLimitations PROPAGANDAANDTHEGERMANCINEMA1933–45 THETHIRDREICH:PoliticsandPropaganda HITLER:ProfileofaDictator Cinema and the Swastika The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema Editedby Roel Vande Winkel and David Welch ©Editorialmatter,selection,introductionandchapter1 ©RoelVandeWinkelandDavidWelch,2007,2011 Allremainingchapters©theirrespectiveauthors2007,2011 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-1-4039-9491-2 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse6-10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorshaveassertedtheirrightstobeidentified astheauthorsofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublishedinhardback2007andthispaperbackedition2011by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishers Limited,registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries ISBN 978-0-230-23857-2 ISBN 978-0-230-28932-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230289321 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsof thecountryoforigin AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Cinemaandtheswastika:theinternationalexpansionofThirdReich cinema/editedbyRoelVandeWinkelandDavidWelch. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1. Motionpictures,German“Foreigncountries. 2. Motionpictures, German“Foreigncountries“Influence. I. VandeWinkel,Roel. II. Welch,David,1950(cid:2) PN1993.5.G3C5552007 791.430943“dc22 2006048784 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 Contents ListofIllustrations viii NotesontheContributors xi Disclaimer xvi Introduction xix 1 Europe’sNewHollywood?TheGermanFilmIndustryUnder NaziRule,1933–45 1 David Welch and Roel Vande Winkel 2 ‘EuropeanCinemaforEurope!’TheInternationalFilm Chamber,1935–42 25 Benjamin George Martin 3 German Attempts to Penetrate the Spanish-speaking Film Markets,1936–42 42 Lisa Jarvinen and Francisco Peredo-Castro 4 BetweenResistanceandCollaboration:AustrianCinemaand NazismBeforeandDuringtheAnnexation,1933–45 58 Robert von Dassanowsky 5 German Influence on Belgian Cinema, 1933–45: From Low-profilePresencetoDownrightColonisation 72 Roel Vande Winkel 6 NaziFilmPoliticsinBrazil,1933–42 85 Luiz Nazario 7 TheInfluenceofGermanCinemaonNewlyEstablished CroatianCinematography,1941–45 99 Daniel Rafaelic´ v vi Contents 8 A Dangerous Neighbourhood: German Cinema in the CzechoslovakRegion,1933–45 112 Ivan Klimeš 9 TheAttemptedNazificationofFrenchCinema,1934–44 130 Brett Bowles 10 CinemaGoestoWar:TheGermanFilmPolicyinGreece DuringtheOccupation,1941–44 148 Eirini Sifaki 11 CompetitororCompatriot?HungarianFilmintheShadow oftheSwastika,1933–44 159 David S. Frey 12 AWarwithintheWar:Italy,Film,Propagandaandthe QuestforCulturalHegemonyinEurope(1933–43) 172 Aristotle A. Kallis 13 Celluloid Competition: German–Japanese Film Relations, 1929–45 187 Janine Hansen 14 From Dawn to Young Eagles: The (Failed) Attempt of Germanisation and Nazification of Luxembourg through Cinema,1933–44 198 Paul Lesch 15 Dutch–GermanFilmRelationsunderGermanPressureand NaziOccupation,1933–45 207 Ingo Schiweck 16 From Will to Reality – Norwegian Film during the Nazi Occupation,1940–45 220 Bjørn Sørenssen 17 Brown-redShadows:TheInfluenceofThirdReichand SovietCinemaonAfrikaansFilm,1927–48 231 Keyan Tomaselli and Michael Eckardt 18 FilmandPoliticsinSouth-eastEurope:Germanyas ‘LeadingCulturalNation’,1933–45 243 Tim Kirk Contents vii 19 GermanFilmsontheSpanishMarketBefore,Duringand AftertheCivilWar,1933–45 253 María A. Paz and Julio Montero 20 SwedishFilmandGermany,1933–45 265 Rochelle Wright 21 FilmPropagandaandtheBalancebetweenNeutralityand Alignment:NaziFilmsinSwitzerland,1933–45 276 Gianni Haver 22 ‘AThinStreamIssuingthroughClosedLockGates’:German CinemaandtheUnitedKingdom,1933–45 289 Jo Fox 23 GermanFilmsinAmerica,1933–45:PublicDiplomacy andanUncoordinatedInformationCampaign 306 David Culbert 24 German Film Politics in the Occupied Eastern Territories, 1941–45 318 Ralf Forster SelectBibliographyontheGermanCinema,1933–45 334 Index 339 List of Illustrations JacketpicturedesignedbyStephanDemeulenaere,basedonthis BelgianposterfromtheUfafilmMünchhausen(1943). xvii MainstateandpartyorganisationscontrollingtheGermanfilm industry. 7 StructureoftheGermanfilmindustry. 8 Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and some of his closestcollaboratorsinthefieldofcinema. 11 SomeofthegreateststarsofThirdReichcinema. 17 PropagandaMinisterJosephGoebbelswelcomesmembersofthe InternationalFilmChambertohisministryinJuly1941. 36 Receptionfordelegatestothe1935InternationalFilmCongress,in Berlin’sRheingoldRestaurant. 37 PosterfortheSpanish-languageversionofFloriánRey’sCarmenla deTriana(1938). 51 Imperio Argentina, the wife and favourite lead actress of FloriánRey. 54 Wien-Film’smusical-romanceescapism:MariaHolstandWilli ForstinForst’sOperette(1940). 63 PaulaWesselyasavictimisedethnicGerman(Volksdeutsche)in Poland. 64 BelgianposterforVeitHarlan’santi-SemiticfeatureJewSüss(Jud Süss,1940). 74 VeitHarlan’sTheGoldenCity(DiegoldeneStadt,1942). 75 TheUfaFilmPalace(CineUFA-Palácio)inSãoPaulo. 86 SensationsprozessCasilla(1939),anUfafilmbyEduardvonBorsody starringHeinrichGeorge,premieredRiodeJaneiroattheUfa theatre. 95 Croatian poster for the Tobis production People in the Storm (MenschenimSturm,1941). 104 viii ListofIllustrations ix CoverofaCroatianleafletabouttheanti-Britishpropagandafilm UncleKrüger(OhmKrüger,1941). 106 JosephGoebbels(front)visitstheBarrandovStudiosinPragueon 5November1940. 118 AnewoffensiveweaponunforeseenbyGeneva. 142 AdvertisingpostersforMünchhausen(1943),Ufa’sfirstfull-length featuretoemployAgfacolortechnology. 143 Front page of the Greek film journal Kinimatographikos Astir, featuringHansAlbers. 155 Front page of the Greek film journal Kinimatographikos Astir, featuringMarikaRökk. 156 A Night in Transylvania (Egy éjszaka Erdélyben) was a German–Hungarianco-productionfilmedinHungaryin1941. 166 PremiereoftheUfafilmU-boats,Gowest(U-BooteWestwärts,1941), apropagandafilmabouttheblockadeandtheBattleforBritain,at theUraniatheatreinBudapest. 167 AmletoPalermi’sTheSinner(LaPeccatrice,1940). 182 NagamasaKawakita,Japanesefilmpioneer,founderoffilmimport companyTôwaShôjiGôshiKaishaandproducerofArnoldFanck’s TheDaughteroftheSamurai(1936). 191 PropagandaMinisterJosephGoebbelsattheJapaneseEmbassyin Berlin,tocelebratetheGermanpremiereofArnoldFanck’sThe DaughteroftheSamurai(1936),inApril1937. 192 Tornbetweentwocountries.TeruoinascenefromTheDaughterof theSamurai(1936). 193 TheGrandDuchyofLuxembourgcriesforhelpagainstGermany. 205 The Ufa Rembrandt Theatre in Amsterdam (left picture photographedaround1937)burneddownon26January1943 (rightpicture). 215 TheboxofficeofacinemaintheoccupiedNetherlands. 216 AcontemporaryphotomontagefromWalterFyrst’sYoungWills (Ungeviljer,1943). 228 Hans Rompel, one of the ‘fathers’ of Afrikaner film, used the state-controlled German film industry as a blueprint for organising Afrikaner administration, production and distribution. 239 TheUfaproductionKoraTerry(1940),starringMarikaRökk,atthe PalaciodeLaMusica,inMadridaroundApril1941. 260
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