It reveals the truth, lies, successes and failures of key films designed to arouse hostility against the Nazis’ enemies, including Ohm Krüger – the most anti-British film ever produced; their 1943 anti-capitalist version of Titanic; anti-English films about Ireland and Scotland; and anti-American films like The Emperor of California and The Prodigal Son. 

 

The book also contrasts Nazi and Allied film propaganda and explains how the Germans even used television to boost morale during the war years. Including an objective analysis of all the key documentary and feature films produced by the Nazi regime and a wealth of film stills, Ian C. Garden takes the reader on a journey through the Nazi film propaganda machine. In today’s turbulent world the book serves as a poignant reminder of the levels to which powerful regimes will stoop to achieve power and control. Ian C Garden is a French and German graduate from the University of St Andrews who enjoyed a long career in international and corporate banking. 

 

He is now an author and military historian who gives regular lectures on war film propaganda in the UK and overseas. (NOTE – for editor of St A in the News – as per my e-mail to Varan Houghton – I spoke at Edinburgh Book Festival in 2012 and have participated in several radio interviews on the book. I can provide you with image of book cover and link to History Press web-site if required.)