Movies and TV shows from the Greater German Reich

I was just about to mention Westerns. Hitler's literary Wagner was Karl May, author of the "Winnetou" stories set in the American West. Westerns are surprisingly popular in Germany, but the fact that they're set in the United States is obviously a potential problem. On the other hand, Westerns tend to have a simple moral message of good guys in white hats and bad guys in black hats. My guess: the Reichsfernsehkammer (the state censor for television) would permit Westerns on the grounds that the fictional America being portrayed is not the "Roosevelt-U.S.A." (Aside: I think Nazi doctrine with respect to the UK and USA would be that the people were fine Aryans who would have fought Communism with Germany if it hadn't been for the plutocrat-imperialist warmongers Churchill and Roosevelt.) Setting Westerns in the Russian steppes would be a possibility, but then they'd be Easterns.

I thought of Little Sandman as well. There'd be something like that, certainly. I imagine children's programming would be very gender-role-based (wartime adventure stories for boys, Little House on the Prairie stuff for girls). It wouldn't really be necessary to indoctrinate children through television, though. The Hitler Youth and League of German Girls would amply take care of that.
 

claybaskit

Gone Fishin'
Star
Reich _ Where no man no nazie has gone before join the star reich as it goes on it s 5 year miion to explore lands for the furer/
 
Aliens and speace exploration, they could make a show for children called something like "The adventures of captain V2", and the main hero would fight against alien versions of the enemies of the state, there could be alien americans, alien soviets, alien british, even aliens jews
 

Greenville

Banned
Propaganda against the United States and Britain and how they create all of Greater German's ills and problems.
 

King Thomas

Banned
There would not be quite as much direct propaganda as we think as that would just turn audiences off.

Perhaps a Kripo or Gestapo version of Inspector Morse would be one of the shows. Or an MLP with changelings with Jewish stars in their unchanged state where a cutie mark would be.
 
Crimewatch Europa

This show reenacts various crimes much like OTL Crimewatch UK, with a phone number to dial to tell the Kripo and/or the Gestapo the needed information. Some of the crimes would be considered crimes under any regime, whilst others are racially tinged or things like hiding of Jewish people.

An OTL German program called Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst (Case Number XY... unsolved) does precisely this. It started in 1967. According to Wikipedia, the only television format imported to America from Germany was this one; it became America's Most Wanted.

Another: Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer, as a television show. It had just the right blend of antisemitic essay material, salacious stories of Jewish sex criminals, and letters from concerned householders about the behavior of their neighbors. Many top Nazis were not fans, but the show would be a ratings hit Rupert Murdoch would be envious of.
 
Stirb Langsam....Our hero Hans fights off a psychotic NYC cop trying to bust up a Tokyo News Years Eve party at Nakatomi Plaza




Nakatomi Plaza as seen from the ground up.

Nakatomi Plaza
 
Maybe stuff like "Quax in Africa" a 1943 film that passed Nazi censorship laws in February 1945, but was not shown before the end of WW2.

The film had topless female scenes, German speaking African actors / actresses (not blacked up whites as happened in some Western films at the time), some in lead roles, and was no more racist than an Indiana Jones movie.

The film is a light hearted comedy and as an aside also has aerial shots of the monastery at Monte Casino, before it got shelled into oblivion, as they fly to Africa. The film was actually shot in Spain.

German films were not heavily propandized during the war and there was the 1943 Adventures of Baron Munchausen which was a fantasy comedy.
 
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