Researching Newsreels by Ciara Chambers & Mats Jönsson & Roel Vande Winkel

Author:Ciara Chambers & Mats Jönsson & Roel Vande Winkel
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319919201
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

This was the ‘first-things-first’ operation von Hake carried out in the early days of the occupation before shifting his attention to the long-term objectives of the Reich Film Chamber, namely to secure German features a substantial share of the Danish market and to ensure that the Nazi cultural propaganda of German newsreels was disseminated not only to German soldiers but also to Danish movie-goers. Initially, the occupiers had to achieve their goals by negotiating deals with their Danish counterparts in the film trade and government offices. This meant that film censorship was—officially—in Danish hands, albeit strictly overseen by German personnel, and that films, newsreels and newsreel items from the allied and neutral countries were—again: officially—permitted, until British films were prohibited in autumn 1940 and American films at New Year 1943–1944. This was pure fiction, however, since the practicalities of war, especially the sea blockade, made the importation of British and American films all but impossible. At the same time, Danish newsreel production was a purely Danish and rather miniscule phenomenon, into which foreign items, even from neutral neighbouring Sweden, were hardly ever included. So to all intents and purposes, newsreels in Denmark were either German or the irregular appearances of national newsreels, which were finally sabotaged into closure by the occupiers in late autumn 1941, when a Danish-language Nazi newsreel was introduced.3

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