East German Film and the Holocaust:

East Germany's ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany's name during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast communists as both victims of and victors over National Socialist oppression while marginalizing discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet...

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Beteilige Person: Ward, Elizabeth (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Film Europa 22
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207484?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207484?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207484?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207484?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207484?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207484?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207484?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207484?locatt=mode:legacy
Zusammenfassung:East Germany's ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany's name during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast communists as both victims of and victors over National Socialist oppression while marginalizing discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet for the 1977 Academy Awards, the Ministry of Culture submitted Jakob der Lügner - a film focused exclusively on Jewish victimhood that would become the only East German film to ever be officially nominated. By combining close analyses of key films with extensive archival research, this book explores how GDR filmmakers depicted Jews and the Holocaust in a country where memories of Nazi persecution were highly prescribed, tightly controlled and invariably political
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (264 Seiten)
ISBN:9781789207484
DOI:10.1515/9781789207484