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| | Review - The Ufa story |
 | | Siegfried Kracauer was the first to recognize the Ufa's role in German film and history, stating unequivocally that "the genesis of Ufa testifies to the authoritarian character of Imperial Germany", developing from this thesis his reflection theory of Germany's fall from Caligari to Hitler. |
 | | On the one hand, he focuses on the construction of the Ufa's board of directors, leaders all of the Prussian military-industrial complex, which founded the company as a war propaganda measure, sustained its anti-democratic thrust in the years of the Weimar Republic, and willingly integrated it into Nazi plans for world domination. |
 | | In point of fact, it was the decision of the Ufa's Board on March 29, 1933 to terminate all existing contracts with "Jewish" filmmakers, thus openly supporting the Nazi Boycott of Jewish business that commenced two days later on April 1st, that set the tone for the rest of the German film industry. |
| www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/reviews/rev0600/chbr10a.htm (1201 words) |
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