A Hard Sell

The Nazi Film Ohm Krüger in Wartime France

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ID10072684
AuthorsRoel Vande Winkel (0000-0003-4723-6048, Indiana University Bloomington), Brett Bowles (Indiana University Bloomington, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume57
Issue3
Pages621-644
Publication date2022-05-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00220094221099861
OpenAlexW4280494498
LanguageEN
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Historians of the Third Reich generally view Ohm Krüger (Hans Steinhoff, 1940), an anti-British historical drama set during the Boer War, as a triumph of Nazi propaganda, yet the film's distribution and reception in German-occupied territories have never been studied in depth. By offering a detailed comparison between the German original and a substantively reedited, French-dubbed version produced in 1941 under the title Le Président Kruger, as well as a politically and economically contextualized analysis of the film's distribution and reception in occupied and Vichy France, this article questions the persuasive power traditionally ascribed to Ohm Krüger to draw broader conclusions about the complexities of exporting Nazi propaganda to foreign markets in the volatile context of the Second World War

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · Drama · Electrical engineering · German · Literature · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Ohm · Physics · Political science · Power (physics · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Engineering · European history and politics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law

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