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 of; then moves on to deride the recent construction of the Bauhaus school (with a racially motivated score of Jazz music) and an example of German "architectural decay." Then proceeds to show off buildings constructed by the Nazi and an architectural revival, to "last 1000 years," Film also spends a great of time dwelling on massive and "busy" monuments that had been erected all over the county.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Walter Hege
- Studio
- Deutsche Film Gesellschaft (DFG)
- Released
- 1938-02-02
- Running time
- 15 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Mid-20th-Century German Film, Feature Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Bauten
- Fuehrer
- Adolf
- Hitler
Cast & crew
- Walter Hege Director