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Hardcover. Condición: New. LEGION CONDOR - Karl Ritter's lost 1939 feature film. (SEE the book's Table of Contents in the Photo Gallery.) by William A. Gillespie Karl Ritter (1888-1977) produced and directed some of the Third Reich's most famous, popular and hard-hitting feature films. Having produced Hans Steinhoff's Hitlerjunge Quex, his own WWI trilogy of Patriots, Operation Michael and Leave on Word of Honor made his reputation at the celebrated Ufa film studios. The huge popular and financial success of Pour le Mérite (premiered December 1938) prompted him to conceive of a sequel in early 1939. Whereas the story told in Pour le Mérite ended with the re-birth of a modern German air force in 1935, the second film was to show the Luftwaffe in victorious battle as the 'Legion Condor' in Spain. Ritter's script drew on his experiences filming "In the Battle Against the World Enemy" in Spain a few months earlier, as well as his extensive personal diaries from that time. The production of Legion Condor required enormous resources, with sixty characters, hundreds of extras, tanks, and aircraft provided by the Luftwaffe. Military Advisor to the film was General der Flieger Helmuth Wilberg, who had overseen the deployment of the Condor Legion in Spain and who was a top strategist behind Blitzkrieg. The lead actors in Pour le Mérite were contracted. The film script had 167 Scenes and 527 camera shots, promising a major two-hour-long feature film. Filming was abandoned in late August 1939 on direct orders from Hermann Göring and Dr. Joseph Goebbels - collateral damage to the infamous Hitler-Stalin Pact. The script of Legion Condor was presumed lost until the Author discovered a copy in a used bookstore in Berlin in June 2018. Exclusive access to the film script and to Karl Ritter's unpublished diary, courtesy of Ritter's grandson, provides readers with the true story of Legion Condor for the first time. The entire film script is translated into English and thus available to film scholars, students, and Luftwaffe buffs for the first time. Also published for the first time are 12 press photos of the scenes that were shot in the short time before LEGION CONDOR was aborted, inserted into the translation of the script in their correct place. 244 pages, with 42 photographs and illustrations, including 4 color plates. ISBN # 978-0-980816-6-6 German Films Dot Net. This order shall be posted in a sturdy, die-cut, heavy cardboard mailer, as shown, using Australia Post's Domestic and International Standard Airmail Shipping, or AP International Express Post shipping. Tracking is available on overseas orders. We do not use FedEx, UPS or other such couriers.…

Soft cover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. ABANDONED PROPAGANDA FILMS OF THE THIRD REICH by William Gillespie During its twelve years, the Third Reich created more than a thousand feature films. Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, was a true believer that the motion picture was a key weapon to engage the German public in supporting National Socialism. He devoted hours almost every day or night to reading film scripts, screening films before they were approved for cinemas, and overseeing the massive film industry. By February 1942, public audiences in Germany reached 1.067 billion attendees, overshadowing Hollywood to become the world's largest film industry. Post-war historians from the USA and UK acknowledged that German propaganda was "the war that Hitler won," with Nazi propaganda films being significantly more sophisticated and better produced than those of their enemies. Germany's excellent actors, high production standards, major studios, skilled composers, and technicians created numerous top films, such as Jud Süss and Ohm Krüger. This is the first book devoted to surveying films that were approved and announced in film studios' annual preview catalogs but then never made: Nazi ideological films, military and war films, German colony films, "German Genius" biopics, anti-British and/or pro-Irish films, anti-Soviet films, and anti-Semitic films. Even a pro-American film was planned before Pearl Harbor brought the U.S.A. into WWII. The collection comprises thirty-nine unproduced propaganda films, along with all available information, and includes chapters detailing Third Reich filmmaking during both peacetime and wartime. Extensive research into documents, internal reports, and letters exchanged with Dr Goebbels, the Propaganda Ministry, the Head of German Film (Reichsfilmintendant), and the Reich Film Chamber, as well as minutes from board meetings at the renowned Ufa film studio, has been conducted to gather insights about these projects, which have been translated into English. A selection of fifty-four images, mostly in color, along with graphics and proposed film posters, revive these unknown and forgotten stories. Written by William Gillespie, Australia, 2025, 156 pages, 6x9 inches, Perfect Bound Softcover, 42 Color Graphics and 12 B&W Graphics and Photos. English Language. SEE the book's Table of Contents in the Photo Gallery. Review from the September 2025 issue of The Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television: "A fascinating insight into how the German film industry operated throughout the war." "An essential reference source for scholars interested in delving into the inner workings of the rise and fall of filmmaking in the Third Reich." "The resources that William Gillespie has assembled are a truly staggering collection of materials that can serve as a definitive starting point for a deeper understanding of how Nazi film was produced." This order shall be posted in a sturdy, die-cut, heavy cardboard mailer, as shown, using Australia Post's Domestic and International Standard Airmail Shipping, or AP International Express Post shipping. Tracking is available on overseas orders. We do not use FedEx, UPS or other such couriers.…

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Soft cover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. The Making of The Crew of the Dora. -- (SEE the book's Table of Contents in the Photo Gallery.) For the first time in Third Reich Cinema literature, a book brings an insider's perspective to working within the dictatorship for Joseph Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, the Reichsfilmintendanz, the OKW, and Ufa, who approved, then rejected, re-approved, supported, and in the end, banned The Crew of the Dora from cinemas altogether. The Crew of the Dora (Besatzung Dora, 1943) was the Third Reich's last contemporary combat feature film, written, produced and directed by the Ufa film studio's highly successful Karl Ritter (1888-1977). From producing Steinhoff's Hitlerjunge Quex to his own Pour le Mérite, Ritter's hard-hitting propaganda films had broken box office records and generated huge profits for Ufa. Stalin's USSR demanded he stand trial for war crimes in 1945 for Quex, Über alles in der Welt, Kadetten, and his anti-Communist films about the Spanish Civil War and the Soviet GPU. Besatzung Dora was Ritter's most ambitious and challenging effort. The script called for a story line on all three German war fronts simultaneously: the Western Front in France, the Eastern Front in the Soviet Union, as well as on the North African Front. If that was not complicated enough, the film uniquely was to be filmed entirely on location with no studio shots. This meant putting the cast and crew in harm's way on active war fronts in the midst of World War II for months at a time - a danger no other feature film had taken on, and one that was otherwise limited to the brave Deutsche Wochenschau cameramen and their Propaganda Companies. This book provides 120 pages of transcribed excerpts from Ritter's heretofore-unpublished diaries, following the conception, writing, production, filming and censorship of the film between May 1942 and March 1943. With 90 photographs, maps, sketches, and illustrations - many previously unpublished -The Making of The Crew of the Dora is an essential read for anyone interested in Nazi filmmaking. 320 pages, 90 photos & illustrations, Perfect-bound trade paperback. By William Gillespie, author of Karl Ritter - His Life and 'Zeitfilms' Under National Socialism (2nd edition, 2014). The book received two 4-star ratings on Amazon Books when it was last sold there. There were only two reviews, and both were for four stars. This order shall be posted in a sturdy, die-cut, heavy cardboard mailer, as shown, using Australia Post's Domestic and International Standard Airmail Shipping, or AP International Express Post shipping. Tracking is available on overseas orders. We do not use FedEx, UPS or other such couriers.…

Soft cover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. ######## NOTE: We are only seller of this book worldwide. ######## FOUR "MOVEMENT" FILMS OF THE THIRD REICH S.A.-Mann Brand Bleeding Germany Horst Wessel/Hans Westmar The March to the Leader This monograph is the first book in many years to examine any of the early so-called 'Movement' films of the Third Reich. The author provides a narrative for the 1933 feature films SA-Mann Brand and Hans Westmar, complementing his book on the Hitler Youth Quex. Also included are two often-overlooked but important documentary films: Bleeding Germany and The March to the Leader. Today, only a 17-minute fragment of Bleeding Germany remains, although it originally ran for 68 minutes. The full narration of the missing footage is presented here for the first time. Never-before-cited source material on The March to the Leader offers additional insight into this iconic HJ film, along with its previously unseen full-color poster. This material, presented without bias, provides a more comprehensive overview of the creation and promotion of these films. For English-speaking readers, all source material has been translated, many of it for the first time. Three of the four films were also distributed in the United States. The text discusses how American censors handled these propaganda films and how reviewers and audiences responded to them. The films provide insight into the early days of the Nazi Party and its pursuit of power, making them a valuable resource for studying that period. Today, when people hear the words 'Hitler' or 'Nazis, an image of Auschwitz or Adolf Hitler as the Monster-the embodiment of evil-likely comes to mind, and they think more about the Nürnberg Trials than the Nürnberg Party Day Rallies. Watching these early films can help explain how Germany transformed into the Third Reich. Understanding why and how the German people supported and often worshiped Adolf Hitler is almost impossible now without revisiting the late Weimar years, the intense Kampfzeit, and considering the historical context of that time. Softcover, Perfect binding, 166 pages, with 42 rare illustrations including five posters, many in color. ISBN 978-0-9808612-9-7 German Films Dot Net © 2026 All rights reserved. Early praise for this book from an American author of a classic book on Nazi Film written in 2008 and still in print: "Your latest book just arrived. Another singular contribution to history. I could not have asked for anything: more interesting and eye-opening about films that would get my attention. Your latest work, I think, is your most important: surprising, provocative, thought-provoking." [Author's name omitted to protect his privacy.].…

Soft cover. Condición: New. Hitler Youth Quex - A Guide for the English-speaking Reader BOOK (2nd edition, SEE the book's Table of Contents in the Photo Gallery.) Hitler Youth Quex, the story of a fifteen-year-old working-class boy who defied his father to join the Hitlerjugend in 1932 and died a martyr, was a best-selling novel that became a box office hit when it was released as a motion picture by the famous Ufa film studio in September 1933. It was the first feature film in history devoted to those under the age of twenty, and critics worldwide came to the film's premieres in Munich and Berlin. Adolf Hitler attended both gala premieres. The film's song became the anthem of the HJ, and over eleven million youngsters saw the film in the Third Reich. Hitlerjunge Quex became the cult film of the new German youth. This Guide provides a wealth of information about the film, from its evolution as a novel to its serialization in newspapers and its adaptation for the silver screen. The fascinating careers of the critical men involved - the book's author, Klaus Schenzinger, the film's producer, Karl Ritter, and the film's director, Hans Steinhoff - are presented. The pivotal role of the Reich Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach is explored, with additional commentary from his oldest son, Klaus. The unpublished diaries of Karl Ritter found in Argentina provide new insight into the film's production. A chapter on Jürgen Ohlsen, who played the title role, offers information that has been heretofore overlooked. All of the comprehensive Ufa studio marketing and publicity materials are translated into English for the first time. The movie's success before 1945, not just in German cinemas but in Europe, North America, and Japan between 1934 and 1944, is documented with rare advertising and reviews. The fate of the film post-WWII and how it is dealt with in today's Germany is examined. Post-war critical analysis is also surveyed. This Guide is the first book solely devoted to telling the story behind Hitler Youth Quex in English or German. It will be of interest to film students, film collectors, and anyone interested in Third Reich propaganda. 432 + -x- pages, with 67 illustrations and 13 color plates. Author William Gillespie. Our 2nd revised edition! THE OUTSTANDING BOOK REVIEW FROM THE PRESTIGIOUS ACADEMIC PUBLICATION " The Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television." : "The greatest merit of Gillespie's book is that he not only brings together many sources that are difficult to access, but also makes them accessible to an English-speaking audience." -and- "Hitler Youth Quex: A Guide for the English-speaking Reader's unique selling point, thus, is the way it presents and discusses a range of different primary sources and embeds them in the historical context. "Gillespie's book is a treasure trove for scholars of history, film history and propaganda more generally. This includes graduate and postgraduate students, early career researchers and more established academics. As such it is recommended for the essential classroom reading lists on any course dealing with film propaganda." - The Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television, 2024 Books are posted in a sturdy, die-cut, heavy cardboard mailer, as shown, using Australia Post's Domestic and International Standard Airmail Shipping, or AP International Express Post shipping. Tracking is available on overseas orders. We do not use FedEx, UPS or other such couriers.…

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