The Führer's Birthdays:
Personality Cult in the Third Reich

Under the Third Reich, the Führer's birthdays became major national holidays. This film charts the rise and fall of Hitler's power by examining these annual events. Celebrations of Germany's Volksgemeinschaft in Hitler's early years in office give way to the calculated military demonstration of 1939, when the technologies of Blitzkrieg warfare are unveiled in a 41/2 hour procession before the Führer's reviewing stand. The last desperate months of Nazism find macabre expression in the scenes from Hitler's birthdays of April 1944 and 1945, as followers vow to carry on amidst Berlin's bombed-out ruins. Along with its survey of Hitler's personality cult, this film offers an unabashedly revisionist account of the causes of World War Two. Germany, 1994, B&W/Color, 50 minutes, English commentary and subtitles.

Video Cassette available in NTSC

The Führer's Birthdays: Personality Cult in the Third Reich
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