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Title The Archives Testify (No. 2)
Production Date 1958
Country of Production GDR (German Democratic Republic)
Duration 00:33:59
Production Company DEFA
Film Subject Era 1925-1939; 1939-1945; 1946-1953; 1954-1975
Genre Documentary
Summary An examination of the activities of the NATO general Hans Speidel during the Second World War and his betrayal of Erwin Rommel.
Subjects Second World War (1939-1945); Nazism; SS (Schutzstaffel); Espionage; German army; Resistance movements; Executions; Judaism; Death; Prisoners; Deportation; Concentration camps; Holocaust; Eastern Front (Second World War); War crimes; Communism; Socialism; Assassinations; Air force; Aircraft; Arrests; Arms sales; Industry; Nuclear war; Nuclear weapons; Nazi Germany; NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation); Wars; Luftwaffe; Mass murder; Neo-Nazism; Nuremberg War Trials; Political rallies; Military; Soldiers
Director Thorndike, Annelie; Thorndike, Andrew
Contributors
Music:
Dessau, Paul

Script:
Rücker, Günther

People Himmler, Heinrich (1900-1945); Goebbels, Joseph (1897-1945); Bamler, Rudolf (1896-1972); Speidel, Hans (1897-1984); Canaris, Wilhelm (1887-1945); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Rommel, Erwin (1891-1944); Kluge, Günther von (1882-1944); Stauffenberg, Claus von (1907-1944); Stülpnagel, Carl-Heinrich von (1886-1994); Rommel, Manfred (1928-2013); Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Alfried (1907-1967); Speer, Albert (1905-1981); Meyer, Kurt (1910-1961); Gille, Herbert (1897-1976); Kesselring, Albert (1885-1960); Manstein, Erich von (1887-1973); Heusinger, Adolf (1897-1982)
Places Paris; France; Germany; West Germany (FDR); Spain; Madrid; Fointenbleau; USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and White
Film Format 16mm Comb BW pos
Language English (Narrator); German (Interviewee)
Module Wars & Revolutions
BFI Identifier N-507667
Copyright The British Film Institute