Hitler’s Reign of Terror (1934)

Original title

Hitler's Reign of Terror

Directed by

Michael Mindlin

Genre

documentary film, drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

55 min

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1934 independent film combines newsreel footage, documentary segments, and staged reenactments to attack Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. It presents Hitler's Germany as a growing danger to world peace, using available footage and dramatic reconstructions to make its case.

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What happens

Hitler's Reign of Terror is an 1934 anti-fascist independent film that attacked the activities of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, and is often credited as being the "first-ever American anti-Nazi film." The film is a combination of newsreel footage, documentary, and reenactment. Despite the fact that the New York State Censor Board refused the film a license, it played for two weeks in New York City theaters which filled to capacity. In Chicago the film was only released after the title was changed to Hitler Reigns to placate the German government. Mordaunt Hall gave the film a negative review in The New York Times when it was released. Film Daily scoffed at the film for its prediction that Hitler's Germany was a future threat to world peace. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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