Abstract

Already during his life time, it has been a popular fact that Adolf Hitler had a passion for cinema and, at least until the war, spent much of his spare time watching German and foreign pictures. His preferences, his perception of cinema as an art form and his influence on the Reich’s film production have to date scarcely been subject of historical research. Besides analyzing Hitler’s surviving film evaluations, the article aims at estimating the dictator’s ideal of sublime German cinema that was de facto never achieved under National Socialist rule.

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