Exhaustive research has uncovered missing footage of often stunning clarity from archives, libraries and private collections in Germany, America and around the world. It includes film of the 1936 Berlin Olympics shot by an American spectator, a bizarre Roman-style pageant in Munich to celebrate 2,000 years of German culture and a visit by Mussolini to Berlin filmed by a Dutch tourist. Austrian villagers are shown welcoming the German army, and there is footage of Hitler's triumphant visit to a captured Polish airfield, German troops on the outskirts of Stalingrad and 15-year-olds playing around an anti-aircraft gun in Hamburg.
Apr 10, 2005
Hitler in color
From color footage of the Nuremberg rally to film shot by Hitler's pilot, a new documentary to be released in May covers the 12 years from Hitler's rise to power 'til the fall of Berlin.
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