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The Degenhardts
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Wikipedia article
'The Degenhardts' is a 1944 German drama film directed by Werner Klingler and starring Heinrich George, Ernst Schrder and Gunnar Mller. Karl Degenhardt, the patriarch of a family in Lbeck, leads his wife and five children through the opening stages of Second World War culminating in the Bombing of Lbeck on 28 March 1942 by the Royal Air Force.
The film was part of a cycle of home front films produced in Germany during the war.
The film was intended to fan anti-British sentiment and prepare Germans psychologically for the destruction of their cities by Allied bombing raids and invasions.O'Brien p. 145 It premiered in Lbeck on 6 July 1944.
Cast
* Heinrich George as Karl Degenhardt
* Ernst Schrder as Jochem Degenhardt
* Gunnar Mller
* Ernst Legal
* Rene Stobrawa
* Wolfgang Lukschy
* Heinz Klingenberg
* Knut Hartwig
* Gnther Krner
* Walter Bechmann
* Robert Forsch
* Herwart Grosse
* William Huch
* Hilde Jansen
* Karl Kemper
* Werner Kepich
* Alfred Maack
* Ilse Petri
* Werner Pledath
* Trude Tandar
* Erich Ziegel
References
Bibliography
* O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth. 'Nazi Cinema as Enchantment. The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich'. Camden House, 2006.
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