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The Third Reich In Color

The Third Reich In Color

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1998

Runtime

1h 45m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

61%

Original Title

Das Dritte Reich - In Farbe

Production Companies

Spiegel TV

Director

Michael Kloft

Description

This remarkable trove of color footage, assembled from far-flung private and state collections, presents Hitler's Europe as never seen before. Amateur film enthusiasts - soldiers, tourists, Hitler's own pilot, even Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun - began experimenting with color film in the late 1930s, their camera eye recording the Third Reich from every angle. Some of this film was only recently uncovered in former Soviet-bloc archives, hidden for almost 60 years; all of it, thanks to digital technology, has been newly transferred to video with surprising clarity. (This documentary was produced with two different narratives, both an English and German language version.)