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Heard of Werner Herzog? August Diehl? Bruno Ganz? Jürgen Prochnow? Klaus Kinski? If you haven't, you most likely have seen some of their work without realizing it. Herzog is one of the most celebrated German New Cinema directors, and the rest are just some of the top German film actors. Many of Germany's best talent have been sought out by Hollywood producers and directors for their own projects.

In the movie industry, German studios, such as Bavaria Film, are universally lauded for their high quality productions. With budgets that are only a fraction of your typical Hollywood B movie, they turn-out strongly scripted, filmed and acted movies that receive international acclaim. The film scripts are often based on events during World War II or the Cold War in East Germany, eras rich in drama. Here's a few gems from years past, which won't disappoint should you decide to pop one into your DVD.

The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) - 2006: One of the best films I've ever had the pleasure of seeing, and I've seen hundreds! Featuring Sebastian Koch and Martina Gedeck as an artist couple in Cold War era East Germany. Unbeknownst to them, their every movement is observed and recorded by a Stasi spy (brilliantly acted by Ulrich Muhe), who slowly develops an affection for the pair despite having never met.

Das Boot (1982): Wolfgang Petersen's masterpiece, starring Jürgen Prochnow as the captain of a German submarine during the Second World War. The movie was a critical and financial success, grossing 80 million dollars worldwide. The movie was nominated for six Academy awards in 1982.

Fitzcarraldo (1982): Werner Herzog's incredible epic film starring Klaus Kinski. The movie follows an opera loving maniacal entrepreneur (Kinski) dragging a steam boat and crew through the Amazon jungle! No special effects in this one, the stunning scenery and scores of natives are the real deal! They really did pull the boat over a mountain top! The documentary on the making of the movie is equally riveting.

Downfall (Der Untergang): Oliver Hirschbiegel's 2005 stirring recount of the final days of the Third Reich, with virtually all the action taking place in or around Hitler's bunker. Bruno Ganz plays the Führer to maniacal perfection in this Academy award nominated film. Be forewarned that there are several scenes which will linger in your mind for years, particularly the one where Frau Goebbels calmly poisons her five children, refusing to let them suffer the indignities of a Nazi-less world.

Good Bye, Lenin! (2004): This Wolfgang Becker comedy stars Daniel Brühl (the love struck young sharpshooter you saw in Inglourious Basterds) as a resourceful young man goes to great pains to make his dying Communist party mother believe that the Soviet East Germany is still alive and well in 1989 and the Berlin Wall still stands firm.

The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher): The winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2008 Academy awards. Karl Markovics plays a Jewish master currency counterfeiter, recruited by the Nazis while interned in a concentration camp. August Diehl (the vicious Gestapo officer from the tavern scene in Inglourious Basterds), plays a fellow prisoner bent on sabotaging his operation.

There are many more unforgettable German films out there, but after you get a taste of those I've just recommended, you might just go hunt down the rest yourself! Note that when one speaks of German cinema, one might also be talking about Austrian film. Austria is a German speaking nation and the two countries frequently cooperate on film productions and their actors are interchangeable.

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Tom Germain is a Canadian who in 2001 decided he wasn't going to put up with any more winters and moved to Mexico. He never looked back and moved around the world every couple years, making his home in Argentina, the Canary Islands, Mauritius, and now Colombia. In his blog, Permatourist (http://www.permatourist.com) he tells of his experiences and offers invaluable tips on how you can live the life of a "permatourist".

Pows Of The Reich Prisoners Of The Reich $7.59 Rated: NRSynopsis: P.O.W.'s of the Reich - 2 DVD COLLECTOR'S EMBOSSED TIN! Told exclusively through interviews of prisoner of war veterans, this unique documentary uncovers first hand accounts of survival, heroism and bravery. The airmen and soldiers who found themselves thrust into the bizarre and dangerous world of Nazi prison camps faced an unreal struggle against hunger, boredom and their unknown fate. These are the stories of the Prisoners of the Reich. Part 1 - Before they were prisoners of war, they were soldiers and airmen. They were flying missions over France, Holland, Italy and Germany. They were taking bunkers and engaging the enemy in firefights on their march to victory. However, fate intervened and now they were Prisoners of the Reich. Follow these soldiers and airmen as their amazing prisoner of war stories begin to unfold with their death defying final missions. Watch as these soon to be POWs find themselves suddenly thrust into untenable positions and must make split-second life or death decisions. Listen as the newly captured allied prisoners describe their capture and the surreal, and at times terrifying, interrogations they were put through before being transported to their permanent camps. Part 2 - Continue to follow the newly captured Allied prisoners as they are introduced to life in a POW camp. First hand accounts of the hunger and unending boredom are recalled as well as the humorous moments and tales of friendship. See the dark sides of POW life as work crews are forced to work in factories or fixing rail lines. Hear tales of amazing escapes, including the unbelievable story of The Great Escape told by those who were actually there. Then, march along with the prisoners in freezing cold as the German guards force the POWs to evacuate the camp in the face of the oncoming Red Army. Finally, rejoice with the soldiers and airmen as liberation finally comes, and once again, they know the taste of freedom.

The Third Reich $13.63 The Third Reich was the name Hitler and the Nazi Party gave to the dictatorship that began in 1933 and ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany and Hitler's suicide. Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of the Fuhrer, the Third Reich was one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, Hitler's movement came to dominate German society in the 1930s, bringing with it the militarization of German society, the apparatus of state terror and a policy of violent discrimination against political opponents, the so-called "asocials": gypsies, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews. The history of the Reich is bound up with territorial aggression, total war and genocide. The end result was the complete defeat of Germany and the annihilation of millions of Europeans, a historical drama without precedent that still lies as a shadow over modern-day Germany. Richard Overy charts the rise and fall of Nazi power in a compelling narrative of the period, amplified by extensive quotations from documents, letters, diaries and oral testimony, and accompanied by many original and striking images of the era. There are also fact boxes which explore many of the important aspects of the Third Reich in greater detail. Authoritative, informative and sumptuously illustrated, written by a scholar steeped in knowledge of the period, The Third Reich brings the bloody realities of war, conquest and genocide vividly to life.

The Raspberry Reich - $19.99 Canadian sexploitation filmmaker Bruce LaBruce goes to Germany to write and direct the satire Raspberry Reich, inspired by real-life '70s radical group the Baader-Meinhof gang. East German dominatrix Gudrun (Susanne Sachsse) leads a revolutionary gang of her own in Berlin. She has her men kidnap the son of a rich businessman in order to gain publicity. Claiming that heterosexuality is a social norm created to keep the people down, she forces her male minions to have sex with each other. Raspberry Reich was shown at the Sundance Film Festival as part of the midnight screenings. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

Collectible Spoons of the 3rd Reich $20.8 Collectible Spoons of the 3rd Reich covers a plethora of German, 3rd Reich spoon types with over 200 illustrative photographs and over 19,000 words of description and relevant history.

The Proclamation of Wilhelm as Kaiser of the New German Reich, in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles $49.99 The Proclamation of Wilhelm as Kaiser of the New German Reich, in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles - Giclee Print

Reich Minister Rudolf Hess Reviewing and Shaking Hands with German Troops at the Front $79.99 Reich Minister Rudolf Hess Reviewing and Shaking Hands with German Troops at the Front - Premium Photographic Print

Retreat to the Reich: The German Defeat in France, 1944 $6.34 The Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the German defeat in France. Mitcham recaptures the taste and feel of the Wehrmacht in 1944 as the thin gray line in Normandy finally snapped, the 5th Panzer and 7th Armies collapsed, and the survivors fled the Allied steamroller in a mad dash back to the Reich. From the reactions of soldiers in the field to military decisions at the highest level, this is the story of the Western Front from a German perspective. While finally bringing the Allied juggernaut to a halt on the borders of the Reich itself, this brief success would only delay the inevitable.

Royals and the Reich $18.95 The link between Hitler's Third Reich and European royalty has gone largely unexplored due to the secrecy surrounding royal families. Now, in Royals and the Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos uses unprecedented access to royal archives to tell the fascinating story of the Princes of Hesse and the important role they played in the Nazi regime. Princes Philipp and Christoph von Hessen-Kassel, great-grandsons of Queen Victoria of England, had been humiliated by defeat in WWI and, like much of the German aristocracy, feared the social unrest wrought by the ineffectual Weimar Republic. Petropoulos shows how the princes, lured by prominent positions in the Nazi regime and highly susceptible to nationalist appeals, became enthusiastic supporters of Hitler. Prince Philipp, son-in-law to the King of Italy, became the highest-ranking prince in the Nazi state and developed a close personal relationship with Hitler and Hermann Goering. Prince Christoph was a prominent SS officer and head of the most important intelligence agency in the Third Reich. In return, the princes made the Nazis socially acceptable to wealthy, high-society patrons. Prince Philipp even introduced Goering to Mussolini at a critical stage in the Nazi Party's development and later served as a liaison between Hitler and the Italian dictator. Permitted access to Hessen family private papers and the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, Petropoulos follows the story of the House of Hesse through to its tragic denouement--the princes' betrayal and persecution by an increasingly paranoid Hitler and prosecution and denazification by the Allies. Royals and the Reich is a startling and unique portrait of the vanished world of prewar aristocrats and a royal family caught in one of the most tumultuous periods in history.

Reception Room in the Berlin Reich Chancellor's Palace $34.99 German School Reception Room in the Berlin Reich Chancellor's Palace - Giclee Print

New Roads are Being Constructed Throughout the Reich $34.99 German Photographer New Roads are Being Constructed Throughout the Reich - Giclee Print

After the Reich $18.95 When Hitler’s government collapsed in 1945, Germany was immediately divided up under the control of the Allied Powers and the Soviets. A nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs, was suddenly subjected to brutal occupation by vengeful victors. According to recent estimates, as many as two million German women were raped by Soviet occupiers. General Eisenhower denied the Germans access to any foreign aid, meaning that German civilians were forced to subsist on about 1,200 calories a day. (American officials privately acknowledged at the time that the death rate amongst adults had risen to four times the pre-war levels; child mortality had increased tenfold). With the authorization of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, over four million Germans were impressed into forced labor. General George S. Patton was so disgusted by American policy in post-war Germany that he commented in his diary, “It is amusing to recall that we fought the revolution in defense of the rights of man and the civil war to abolish slavery and have now gone back on both principles"Although an astonishing 2.5 million ordinary Germans were killed in the post-Reich era, few know of this traumatic history. There has been an unspoken understanding amongst historians that the Germans effectively got what they deserved as perpetrators of the Holocaust. First ashamed of their national humiliation at the hands of the Allies and Soviets, and later ashamed of the horrors of the Holocaust, Germans too have remained largely silent – a silence W.G. Sebald movingly described in his controversial book On the Natural History of Destruction .In After the Reich , Giles MacDonogh has written a comprehensive history of Germany and Austria in the postwar period, drawing on a vast array of contemporary first-person accounts of the period. In doing so, he has finally given a voice the millions of who, lucky to survive the war, found themselves struggling to survive a hellish “peace.”A startling account of a massive and brutal military occupation, After the Reich is a major work of history of history with obvious relevance today.

Aksumitisches Reich $70.1 Das Aksumitische Reich (auch Axumitisches Reich) war ein bedeutender spatantiker Staat. Er umfasste Teile des heutigen Athiopien wo sich seine Hauptstadt Aksum befand , seiner Nachbarstaaten Eritrea und Sudan sowie des Jemen. Es bestand vermutlich schon im 1. Jahrhundert n. Chr. und ging im 7. Jahrhundert unter. Mangels schriftlicher Uberlieferungen ist die Geschichte Athiopiens, Eritreas und des Sudan vor der Entstehung des aksumitischen Reiches nur mangelhaft bekannt. Bereits im 3. vorchristlichen Jahrtausend existierte an der athiopischsudanesischen und eritreischen Grenze eine weitentwickelte Kultur. Sie ist von einigen Siedlungen bekannt, die aber in der Regel bisher nicht ausgegraben wurden. Es gibt Steinaxte, Keulenkopfe, Keramik und Schmuck. Diese Kultur zeigt eine gewisse Verwandtschaft mit der nubischen CGruppe. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 92 Publication Date: 2010/08/20 Language: German Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.22 inches

The Third Reich at War (Paperback) $27.97 THE THIRD REICH AT WAR completes Richard Evans`s ambitious trilogy about Nazi Germany. Evans examines the military history of World War II and recounts key battles--both successes and failure--as well as the conduct of German soldiers and civilians, and looks at Hitler as military strategist. He also provides an in-depth analysis of the effects of the war on the German home front over several years. THE THIRD REICH AT WAR is a comprehensive account that includes many judiciously chosen personal accounts from during the war and afterwards.

Refractions of the Third Reich in German and Austrian Fiction and Film $99 This book examines the ways in which the Third Reich is represented in recent German and Austrian novels and films. It also examines other aspects of the commemoration of the Third Reich. It covers a wide range of genres, media, and issues, including documentary, gender, the linguistic politics of cinema, photography, memorials, and museums. - ;Six decades after the defeat of National Socialism, commemoration and mourning are ongoing, open-ended projects in Germany and Austria, and continue to generate a steady stream of literature and film about the Nazi past that, while comparatively modest in volume, is often disproportionately influential in public debates. At the same time, new museums and memorials are being established all the time in what Andreas Huyssen has called a 'memory boom', while what is remembered and how. it is remembered is subject to continuous change. Scholars have to keep pace with each new development in this culture of commemoration. Rather than add to the growing body of surveys of literature and film about the Third Reich, this study instead puts scholars' critical approaches under the. microscope. Chloe Paver considers how far the object of the study is not just analysed but also constructed by the scholar's approach and identifies the criteria by which academics judge the values of works that deal with the Third Reich. This book brings aspects of film, fiction, and memorial culture together in a single study that pays as much attention to images (and in the case of film to sound) as it does to text. The study of film, historical exhibitions, and sites of memory also demands consideration of social contexts and practices. A case study of memory at two of Austria's sites of terror demonstrates the methods used in the study of memorials and museums and considers the ways in which memory attaches itself to. place. - ;...perceptive study...a thought-provoking introduction to the critical issues of contemprary 'Ged--auml--;chtniskultur'. - Ben Hutchinson MLR

The Reich Mutiny $33.07 Based on a factual account of a previously undisclosed incident aboard a German U-boat off the coast of Florida in 1942. Two Americans get involved in Nazi-sponsored sabotage, become unwitting participants in a mutiny at sea, and are forced underground.

From Reich to State $55 From Reich to State is based upon an extensive range of German and French archival sources, locating the Napoleonic episode in this region within a broader chronological framework, encompassing the Old Regime and Restoration. It analyses not only politics, but also culture, identity, religion, society, institutions and economics.

Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich $36.44 This powerful book examines the Daimler-Benz company-one of Germany's most important armament and automobile manufacturers-from its formation in 1926 to the end of World War II and reveals for the first time its close association with the Third Reich. It is a timely contribution to the history of collaboration between German business and the Nazis.

German Soldiers, from 'Germany: the Olympic Year', Pub. by Volk Und Reich Verlag Berlin, 1936 $44.99 German Photographer German Soldiers, from 'Germany: the Olympic Year', Pub. by Volk Und Reich Verlag Berlin, 1936 - Giclee Print

German Yuletide, from 'Germany: the Olympic Year', Pub. by Volk Und Reich Verlag Berlin, 1936 $34.99 German Photographer German Yuletide, from 'Germany: the Olympic Year', Pub. by Volk Und Reich Verlag Berlin, 1936 - Giclee Print

The German Physical Society in the Third Reich $87.75 No Synopsis Available

Alternatives to Hitler: German Resistance Under the Third Reich $4.53 Internal opposition to Nazism is often mythologized as heroic or dismissed as "too little, too late, and for the wrong reasons." These seminal writings trace the real and complex history of the German Resistance from the ascent of the Nazi Party to the July 1944 attempted assassination of Hitler. Informed by four decades of research and written by the premier historian of the German Resistance, this book constitutes the definitive work on those tens of thousands of Germans who fought the Third Reich from within. Hans Mommsen considers the full spectrum of opposition, from small but still-dangerous acts of political disobedience to large-scale conspiracies to overthrow the government. Along the way he tells the incredible stories of such Germans as Count Claus von Stauffenberg, who planted a briefcase bomb during a staff meeting at Hitler's East Prussian military headquarters, and the members of the Kreisau Circle, who clandestinely met to plan for Germany's postwar future as a democratic member of an integrated Europe. While upholding resistance to Nazism as a value beyond reproach, Mommsen considers the varied and sometimes murky motives of those who resisted--motives that ranged from principled commitment to pragmatic self-interest by former Nazi sympathizers. He examines resisters' detailed and not-always-democratic programs to rebuild a state and reeducate a Nazified society and considers their sometimes ambivalent attitudes toward the unfolding Final Solution. Available in English for the first time in this fluid translation, this book is a signal achievement by a major scholar--and the standard work on the German Resistance available in any language.

Third Reich in the Unconscious $48.5 "The Third Reich in the Unconscious" concerns itself with the third element of the psychological impact of massive human trauma: transgenerational transmission of psychological tasks. In order to study this topic and identify its pertinence to Third Reich-related case studies, the authors both revisit the effects of the Holocaust on second-generation survivors and outline the mechanics of transgenerational transmission in general. Describing in detail how transgenerational transmission occurs, this book focuses on the psychological processes of the younger generations, outside of their indentification with directly traumatized ancestors, and explains how historical images contaminate the expression of developmental conflicts at all levels. Also included are complete treatment processes for Jewish and German second-generation individuals, and, for the very first time, a full analysis of a traveler (gypsy). Accessible to the general reader "The Third Reich in the Unconscious" will be of interest to anyone concerned with the Holocaust or past traumatic historical events.

Life in the Third Reich $9.6 Even today, the Third Reich--the regime that instigated the most destructive war in modern history--evokes powerful images of fascination and horror. Yet how were the lives of the ordinary German people of the 1930s and '40s affected by the politics of Hitler and his followers? Looking beyond the catalog of events, this intriguing book reveals that daily German life involved a complex mixture of bribery and terror; of fear and concessions; of barbarism and appeals to conventional moral values employed by the Nazis to maintain their grip on society. Eight leading historians present essays that shed fresh light on topics as familiar as the role of political violence in Nazi seizure of power and the German view of Hitler himself. It also focuses on lesser-known aspects of life in the Third Reich, such as village life, the treatment of "social outcasts," and the Germans' own retrospective view of this period of their history.

The Third Reich in Power $30.78 The highly detailed and meticulously researched second volume of Richard Evans`s three-part history of the Third Reich describes how Hitler`s war machine figured into his design for a totalitarian state. Evans documents the ways by which, after having been elected to power, the Nazis set out to totally eliminate their opposition, and to convince the German people to buy into their policies, which included a virulent anti-Semitism, racism, and an aversion to any one or group they deemed unfit for the new Germany. An important addition to Evans`s masterly series, THE THIRD REICH IN POWER does an effective job of explaining how Nazism came to be accepted by so many of the citizens of Germany.

War and Economy in the Third Reich $55 War and Economy in the Third Reich examines the nature of the German economy in the 1930s and the Second World War. Richard Overy's essays, collected here for the first time with a substantial new introduction, explore the tension between Hitler's vision of an armed economy and the reality of German economic and social life. Often thought-provoking, always informed, War and Economy opens a window on an essential aspect of Hitler's Germany.

The Peguin Dictionary of the Third Reich $3.95 This dictionary provides detailed entries on all the principal people, places, institutions, and events from the end of the Weimer Republic to the fall of the Third Reich. Among the topics covered are: -- The major figures from Nazi politics, arts, and industry -- German military operations by code name and area -- The German Resistance -- The politics of race and the Final Solution -- The Nuremberg trials A number of appendixes, charts, and a chronology of the years 1933 to 1945 complete this authoritative work.