Wednesday, December 2, 2009
1943: Is goebels losing control?
Carithershosch's post discusses the peculiarity of correlation between the release of romance in a minor key and the war's turning point. Well it's also worth noting that this was not the only film released that year with slightly anti-propaganda tendencies or at the very least a lack of adherence to general Nazi Propaganda guidelines. Munchhausen was also released this year and Goebbels allows a banned screenwriter to write the script, a relatively peculiar judgement call especially considering the film's status as a 25th anniversary edition. The release of two questionable works in the same year and a banned screenwriter to boot. It sounds a little bit like Goebbels might be loosening his chokehold on the film industry. How did these films make it, especially considering the fact that by this point, the entire film industry was basically owned by the government? With the turning tide of the war did distraction surpass propaganda as goebbels priority? or is there something else going on here that we aren't privy to 66 years later. Regardless of its cause its clear that the climate of german cinema took a drastic change this year and this forces one to consider whether or not the regime has already begun to fall apart by this point.
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