OldRecon
10-12-2006, 06:57 AM
Recently a copy of a German propaganda film on the invasion of Norway and Denmark entitled "Kampf um Norwegen" was re-discovered by a Norwegian historian located in the town of Bergen, through a German net-auction service.
The film was for some reason not released for public viewing by Goebbels Propaganda ministerium. Maybe because of its somewhat factual and dour character, and the amount of animated sequences in the film, as f. ex. compared to the more artistic propaganda classics of Nazi German war movie reports like "Sieg im Westen". Nevertheless the existence of the film is mentioned in such sources as the autobiography ”Ich filmte für Millionen. Fahrten, Abenteuer und Erinnerungen eines Filmberichters” of "Martin Rikli" one of the directors behind "Kampf um Norwegen".
The film has recently been shown on several occasions for public audience at one cinema in Oslo, and excerpts of the film are available for downloading in wmv-format on the web-site of Nordiki (The Net portal of archive material of the occupied Norway 1940-1945), a private NGO based in Bergen Norway.
Beneath are attached link to a clip from the film showing the German invasion of Denmark (right click and save as)
http://www.nordiki.no/danmark_768Kbit_HIB.wmv
Narration in German with no english sub-titling (I'm afraid).
More excerpts of the film are available here: http://www.nordiki.no/kampf03.htm
Right click the grey texted links in the right mainframe of the web-page for downloading.
More information about the film and its discovery in English is available here:
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1361270.ece
There are plans to make a DVD release of the film that presumably will be available for sale through the shop of the Norwegian film institute http://www.nfi.no/english/.
The film was for some reason not released for public viewing by Goebbels Propaganda ministerium. Maybe because of its somewhat factual and dour character, and the amount of animated sequences in the film, as f. ex. compared to the more artistic propaganda classics of Nazi German war movie reports like "Sieg im Westen". Nevertheless the existence of the film is mentioned in such sources as the autobiography ”Ich filmte für Millionen. Fahrten, Abenteuer und Erinnerungen eines Filmberichters” of "Martin Rikli" one of the directors behind "Kampf um Norwegen".
The film has recently been shown on several occasions for public audience at one cinema in Oslo, and excerpts of the film are available for downloading in wmv-format on the web-site of Nordiki (The Net portal of archive material of the occupied Norway 1940-1945), a private NGO based in Bergen Norway.
Beneath are attached link to a clip from the film showing the German invasion of Denmark (right click and save as)
http://www.nordiki.no/danmark_768Kbit_HIB.wmv
Narration in German with no english sub-titling (I'm afraid).
More excerpts of the film are available here: http://www.nordiki.no/kampf03.htm
Right click the grey texted links in the right mainframe of the web-page for downloading.
More information about the film and its discovery in English is available here:
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1361270.ece
There are plans to make a DVD release of the film that presumably will be available for sale through the shop of the Norwegian film institute http://www.nfi.no/english/.