Double Headed Eagle

great documentary
So much of our history has been "lost" for whatever reason. I'm glad this footage was not "lost". This was produced in 1973, when people could put together a documentary on this subject without worrying about if someone might get offended, or maybe they didn't care if someone did get offended--they made the video, anyway. I did have a chuckle, tho, in reference to the stars of this movie. The description said it starred Adolph Hitler and Buster Keaton. There was plenty of Adolph, but only a few seconds of Buster, standing on the street, almost looking confused as to why he was in the movie, maybe? That being said, for someone to amass almost 1.5 hours of footage from about 80 years ago, given the technology of the day, this video was/is amazing. There was footage I've never seen or heard before, and I've watched a lot of shows on the History Channel in the past about Nazis and the Holocaust. Well worth watching, even if you only watch it once. It's amazing how...

Wrong title
This DVD consists of a compilation of film from Germany during 1918-1933. It's an OK DVD, but a more descriptive title for it would be "Life in Germany 1918-1933." Only part of the film deals with Hitler and the Nazis. Much of it is just the daily activities of Germans during that period. There is no narration. There are English subtitles for any German that is spoken. The audio does not always match the video, not particularly a surprise since much of the film was shot prior to sound in movies.

I spotted only one error: the film says that Hitler was the editor of the party newspaper, "Völkischer Beobachter." Not true. Hitler owned the paper, but its most famous editor was Alfred Rosenberg.

So buy this DVD to get an idea of life in Germany in the 1920s, but don't expect a narrative about the Nazi rise to power.

Excellent Film
If you want to be spoon fed anti-German, political correctness propaganda, this is not the film for you. Instead, director Lutz Becker lets the viewer decide, showing archive film of the times. National Socialist Germany does not look all that bad compared to the current state of things in the U.S, even the book burning scene is small potatoes....so what if they burned a pile of books that were detrimental to their culture and nation.

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