{"id":458,"date":"2011-03-10T13:25:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T13:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webactivate-galway19.com\/sheila\/Planet%20Korda\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2011-04-21T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T10:19:03","slug":"synopsis-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/planetkorda.com\/wordpress\/films\/hitlers-irish-movies\/synopsis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Synopsis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Hitler's Irish Movies Menu\" href=\"http:\/\/planetkorda.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=30\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1058\" title=\"new3HIM_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/planetkorda.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/new3HIM_poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 270px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A few decades ago, a couple of feature films were produced about Ireland\u2019s struggle for independence. In these films you could see Irish working-class folk being oppressed by the cruel and inhuman British occupier, and young Irish revolutionaries laying down their lives for the fatherland. At first glance, these look like any of a series of ordinary rebel movies. The particularity about these films, however, is that they were made in Nazi Germany, shot in German with German actors, and commissioned and produced by Joseph Goebbels\u2019 Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.<em> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 270px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em>Hitler\u2019s Irish Movies <\/em>takes a look at two anti-English, \u201cpro-Irish\u201d propaganda feature films commissioned by Dr. Goebbels at the start of WWII: <em>Der Fuchs von Glenarvon<\/em> (starring Ferdinand Marian and Olga Tschechowa) and <em>Mein Leben f\u00fcr Irland<\/em> (starring Anna Damann, Paul Wegener and Will Quadflieg).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 270px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Examining Goebbels\u2019 special blend of melodrama and straight propaganda, the film considers the \u201cIrish\u201d movies in the context of other propaganda films, such as <em>Ohm Kruger<\/em>, <em>Titanic<\/em>, or <em>Jud S\u00fcss<\/em>. It asks why these films were produced, how they hoped to achieve their goal of turning the hearts of the German population against the English, and how they backfired when shown in the occupied territories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 270px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Using commentary from experts in Germany, Luxembourg, and Ireland, testimony from witnesses from the shooting of these films, as well as a rich array of archive footage, it is a sometimes disturbing, sometimes humorous look at how propaganda works (or doesn\u2019t\u2026)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few decades ago, a couple of feature films were produced about Ireland\u2019s struggle for independence. In these films you could see Irish working-class folk being oppressed by the cruel and inhuman British occupier, and young Irish revolutionaries laying down &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/planetkorda.com\/wordpress\/films\/hitlers-irish-movies\/synopsis-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-458","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planetkorda.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planetkorda.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planetkorda.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planetkorda.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planetkorda.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/planetkorda.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"http:\/\/planetkorda.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458\/revisions\/1065"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planetkorda.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planetkorda.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}