full review: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/harlan-in-the-shadow-of-jew-suss/
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Just yesterday I learned about a documentary called The Ritchie
Boys that amounts to a real-life version of Inglourious Basterds.
It tells the story of Jewish paratroopers who fought behind Nazi
lines during WWII. As a companion piece is the astonishing
documentary on Veit Harlan, Nazi Germany’s most famous film
propagandist next to Leni Riefenstahl opening at the Film Forum in
N.Y. tomorrow. Titled Harlan—In the Shadow of Jew Süss and
directed by Felix Moeller, the son of renowned director Margarethe
von Trotta who has a movie on Rosa Luxemburg to her credit.
Moeller, who earned a doctorate in history from the Free
University in Berlin in 1994, interviews the children,
grandchildren, nieces and nephews of the man widely regarded as
Goebbels’s favorite. Indeed, Harlan’s 1945 epic Kolberg was the
basis for the Inglorious Basterds film-within-a-film Stolz Der Nation.
