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Poster for Die Bauten Adolf Hitlers (1938)

Die Bauten Adolf Hitlers (1938)

1938 · Short film · 15 min · dir. Walter Hege

  • Documentary

Synopsis

Nazi Third Reich propaganda film that used architecture as a statement about "racial accomplishment," and so called "racial superiority." Hitler claimed that between 1934 and 1940, the Nazi rule of Germany had produced architectural uniqueness, and this film was produced to shown to attempt to validate that. The opening montage gives a survey of earlier Gothic and Baroque structures in the country as an example of "architectural superiority" that the German race was said to be the sole inventor…

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Director
Walter Hege
Studio
Deutsche Film Gesellschaft (DFG)
Released
1938-02-02
Running time
15 minutes

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