I just saw a new film called "The Dead and the Living" (Barbara Albert), about a twenty-something girl uncovering the truth about her family's history in Nazi Germany. It reminded me of Costa-Gavras' "The Music Box". Does anyone have any other recommendations for films on a similar theme, specifically about Germany, and specifically about the process of uncovering of the past rather than (as in say "Downfall" or "Das Boot") the past itself?
posted by Holly
on Sep 25, 2012 -
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Years ago I acquired an authentic German Nazi flag and I don't know how to properly get rid of it. What is an appropriate way to handle a ~80 year old historical item that I don't wish to keep and also don't want it to end up on some skinhead's wall?
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posted by dgran
on Aug 2, 2012 -
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Documentary filter: MrK heard glowing description of a history documentary about Nazi propaganda in 1936 in Berlin.
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posted by kestralwing
on May 4, 2012 -
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I'm looking for the name of a documentary which reunited Third Reich denouncers and their victims. I believe that I saw it in the late nineties, but I can't find any references to it on Google.
posted by klanawa
on Oct 15, 2011 -
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Asking for a friend: what books/articles are available in English on the far right/neo-nazi movement in Sweden? (Needed for a review of Stieg Larsson's trilogy.) There's some info online at Searchlight Magazine (for which Larsson was a contributor), but wondering if there's a general history/overview available. Thanks!
posted by scody
on Jan 10, 2011 -
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What notable books did the Nazis burn? I have found references to "All Quiet On The Western Front" being targeted for burning, and was wondering what other famous books they were throwing on the bonfire. Was there a list of targeted books, or did they just burn anything that did not look German enough to them?
posted by WhackyparseThis
on Feb 8, 2010 -
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What did the Nazis call the French Resistance? I know they called the individual resisters "terrorists," but what word did they use to describe the resistance as a whole? (Insurgency, resistance, uprising, rebellion, etc.) This is research for a screenplay - I'm
not looking for a discussion about modern parallels, or of what the morally correct word is in various situations. Also, if someone could give me the word in German that would be great! Please no guessing.
posted by bagadonuts
on Oct 22, 2009 -
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If you were giving a crash course on the history of Berlin 1933-1990, and you were limited to just a couple
films, which ones would you assign? Documentaries preferred, and they must have some kind of English language option.
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posted by Beardman
on Oct 15, 2009 -
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I just finished reading Hunting Eichmann and am wondering if any MeFites could recommend any other popular nonfiction books on Nazi Germany, Hitler, war criminals, etc. I don't do huge tomes well (400 pages or less!). The only other books I have read are MAUS and Explaining Hitler. Thanks for your input. So much out there...don't know where to begin. Probably the more well known the better as they may be available at my library.
posted by snap_dragon
on Jun 28, 2009 -
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Moviefilter: I would like help compiling a list of movies set from the late 1930's - Dec. 7 1941, specifically that time between the rise of Nazi Germany and the start of U.S. involvement in WWII.
Not movies made then, nor movies about the war. Rather, ones in the plot highlights the interaction of Americans with Nazi Germans (or the Axis powers in general), at a time before when the American or the German would have been preemptively arrested or imprisoned.
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posted by TDIpod
on Oct 31, 2008 -
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A friend of mine has just returned from Mongolia and was describing roving mad-max style gangs of men using Nazi symbols, with apparently limited understanding of their meaning in the west. Where can I read more about Mongolian Nazis? Is this really prevalent? How did they come to hear about Nazis in the first place? Do they get along with western neo-nazis (despite being ethnically Mongolian)?
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posted by phrontist
on Aug 16, 2008 -
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There was a French film out in the early 90's that was about a Jewish doctor in Paris who decided to collaborate with the Nazi occupiers. Any help as to what this could be?
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posted by goalyeehah
on Feb 9, 2008 -
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Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Göring -- what are these surname origins?
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posted by zek
on Nov 12, 2007 -
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Does anyone know the source of a description by a sceptic attending a nazi rally in the 30s who was unable to resist shouting along with everyone else? I'm sure I read about it somewhere.
posted by leibniz
on Mar 17, 2007 -
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I swear my friend isn't a Nazi, but what the heezy is this thing I found in his stuff?
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posted by Smarson
on Sep 11, 2006 -
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How does one correctly pluralise an acronym or an abbreviation? How does one specify an acronym's ownership? How should one go about specifying the ownership of a collection of acronyms?
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posted by PuGZ
on Nov 20, 2005 -
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Were Hitler and the Nazis actually interested/involved in the occult, as so many movies (Raiders, Hellboy) say?
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posted by gottabefunky
on Jun 9, 2005 -
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