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Rare Nazi propaganda film found
2006-06-23
A Nazi propaganda film showing dramatic footage of a Second World War battle against British forces has been found. Kampf um Norwegen - or "the Struggle for Norway" - is a rare 80-minute documentary commissioned by the high command of the German army in 1940. It displays ordinary German soldiers as super-heroes as they conquered the country. It is believed the film was dubbed into English to be screened in the then neutral US and distributed in Portugal, Spain and parts of Africa.

Associate Professor Jostein Saakvitne, at Bergen University College, found the film on sale in an internet auction. Ragnar Løvberg, an archivist at the Norwegian Film Institute, said: "The film contains a range of scenes that have never been made public before. A great deal of it is devoted to the Battle of Narvik against British forces." Prof Saakvitne added: "We don't know where the film came from, but there is every reason to believe it had lain forgotten in a loft or cellar." Narvik was a key port for Swedish ore mines. During the battle, more than 1,000 men and three German destroyers were sunk by the Royal Navy and five were scuttled by their crews.
Posted by:Seafarious

#12  I can't remember the exact title, but there is a double-movie set taken from the Soviet WWII archives that is truly amazing. It features the Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle up to Gulf War I, but also has just astounding footage.

Pictures of hills of dead Russians, killed by SS einsatzgruppe, with fuel oil poured over them and set on fire. With Russian military officers coldly contemplating doing the same to the Germans when they caught them.

A disorganized march of 250,000 men down a road, taken from the top of a nearby hill, a giant mass of soldiers.

Footage of the vast expanse of grey emptiness, with columns of smoke off in the far distance, broken by a katusha and artillery barrage that would continue for days.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-06-23 19:46  

#11  Couldn't we call Goebbels a National Socialist activist? Sarcasm off
Posted by: borgboy   2006-06-23 19:05  

#10  Goebbels would have been the darling of today's MSM--all propaganda, lies, and bullshit.
Posted by: JohnQC   2006-06-23 15:29  

#9  Algore = National Socialist?

You can't accuse Al-Gore of Nationalism.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2006-06-23 13:22  

#8  "Had too much Al Gore recently I take it?"


Why libel the dead? Goebbels was honest about his Naziism.
Posted by: Ernest Brown   2006-06-23 13:06  

#7  heh, I thought this was going to be a joke about Michale Moore or something.
Posted by: 2b   2006-06-23 10:48  

#6  I wouldn't necessarily want to sit through the bombastic Goebbels-wannabee narration,

Had too much Al Gore recently I take it?
Posted by: Thomoque Angereque3714   2006-06-23 09:34  

#5  Norway later became a source of heavy water for the Nazis. The facility was sabotaged by commandos and the Nazis never did obtain heavy water for nuclear super weapons that they were developing to use in the war against the Allies.
Posted by: JohnQC   2006-06-23 09:17  

#4  Geographic note: Sweden was Europe's main source for iron ore which (for geographic reasons) was shipped by rail across the Nordic penisula to the Norwegian port of Narvik.
Posted by: phil_b   2006-06-23 08:56  

#3  I wouldn't necessarily want to sit through the bombastic Goebbels-wannabee narration, but the underlying stock footage would be interesting to see.
Posted by: Mike   2006-06-23 08:55  

#2  How do we get a copy?????
Posted by: ARMYGUY   2006-06-23 08:00  

#1  Nifty...I've always been interested in the Battle of Norway, and it always gets short shrift in histories of WWII.
Posted by: gromky   2006-06-23 06:02  

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