Fritz Hippler

The Front Show is a series of World War II era German military training films shown to German soldiers before being shipped off to the Eastern Front. They were directed by the veteran propagandist Fritz Hippler, best known for Der Ewige Jude.

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.

It depicts a crime scene — the exhumation of bodies and personal belongings found with the remains of Polish officers in a mass grave in the Katyn Forest, murdered in 1940 by the Soviet NKVD political police. The film also shows members of the International Medical Commission established by the German authorities, journalists, former Polish Prime Minister Leon Kozłowski (1934–1935), and Russian peasant Parfien Kiselev, one of the witnesses to the Katyn massacre. The Germans sought to exploit these crimes for maximum political gain, and the film’s narrator, in the spirit of Nazi propaganda, argues that in the face of “Bolshevik barbarism,” people would fare much better under German than under Soviet rule.

Nazi propaganda film contrasting Germany in the days of the Weimar Republic with contemporary Germany under Adolf Hitler.

The first blitzkrieg, Hitler's invasion of Poland, is traced in this original Nazi propaganda film from 1940.

Part of the Nazi's Die Frontschau (The Front Show) film series (No 5/6), the film depicts the Nazi German assault on Baronowice in the what was then Soviet East Poland.

German troop movement to the front lines in Russia--1941.

Dipicts the Red Army's defensive belt and rather elaborate troop positioning against the Nazi invasion of Soviet territory in 1941.

German Infantry and soldiers from the SS Tontenkopf, with the help of artillery, attack Soviet troop positions near the Valday Heights in the summer of 1941.

Part of the Nazi film series "Die Frontschau" (The Front Show), produced for and shown only to German troops, supposedly to prepare them for the 1941 assault on Soviet troop positions. Numer 9 in that series.

Part of the Nazi film series "Die Frontschau" (The Front Show), produced to screen to troops to supposedly prepare them for the 1941 campaign against the Soviets. Listed as Number 7 in the film series.

Part of the Nazi film series "Die Frontshau" (The Front Show). The series was produced to screen to German troops to prepare them for the upcoming 1941 assault on Soviet territories. It was censored from the German public during WWII.

Part of the "Die Frontshau" (The Front Show) Nazi film series, which was produced and screened only to German troops to supposedly prepare them for the assault on Soviet Territories (1941-1943). The series was banned from public screening during the war. Listed as film number 11 in the series.

A Nazi documentary extolling Germany’s Siegfried Line (“West Wall”) just before WWII, compiled from newsreel units under Fritz Hippler to showcase the fortifications’ construction and defensive purpose.

A Nazi propaganda film about the lead up to World War II and Germany's success on the Western Front. Utilizes newsreel footage of battles and fell into disfavour with propaganda minister Goebbels because of it's lack of emphasis on Adolf Hitler.

Nazi propaganda film “exposes” the United States and its plans against Germany and the German people. Shows so-called signs of decay, gang-wars, slums, riots of blacks, etc. Small wonder, the comment is, that the Statue of Liberty turns it back on America.