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Buchenwald Concentration Camp The Buchenwald concentration camp had been reached by US troops on 11 April 1945. The film was shot 5 days later, on 16 April 1945. The US army had brought a selected group of Weimar citizens to the concentration camp. [...]

Summer of Love 1967 “If you’re going to San Francisco…” Scott McKenzie’s song conquered the charts all over the world in 1967. The birth of Flower Power. The song was also played on German radio day and night. “Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair”. We [...]

The filmmaker Shirley Clarke and the EXPO of 1958 New York City born Shirley Clarke was originally a dancer. She studied with Martha Graham and worked with Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey and Anna Sokolow. The young woman is particularly interested in the possibilities of presenting [...]

The Nolde Debate Emil Nolde is one of the most important German expressionists. Although he was a member of the Danish NS party, he was denounced by the Nazis as a "degenerate artist" in 1937. But Nolde was a Nazi and an anti-Semite. Here are some film [...]

Richard Strauss 1945. The story of a never shown film role Richard Strauss shows in his garden. The visits of Klaus Mann and William Wyler to Garmisch in 1945. The great old master of European classicism and his behaviour in the Nazi empire. [...]

A Computer Glossary The film "A Computer Glossary" was produced in 1968 for the IBM Pavilion at the San Antonio World Exposition. It shows the functioning of a computer, the information machine, with funny and instructive graphic animations. Ray and Charles Eames created a highly interesting short [...]