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Auction History Result 3c326 08/15 German program '54 World War II Nazis directed by Paul May, first in the series! Date Sold 11/16/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage German Film Program (measures 7 1/4" x 10 1/2" [18 x 27 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) 08/15, the 1954 (released in the U.S. in 1957) Paul May German pre-World War II (WWII) life-of-soldiers-in-the-German-Army melodrama ("Here are the 'krauts'... and their women... who tried to conquer the world..."; "The Story of Men, Brutes and Harlots!"; "..of men, brutes and harlots... the saga of German militarism... a film of power and sex!"; "Barracks Rowdyism!"; "Spiced with Passion"; "Lesson in Brutality"; "Farce of Marriage!"; "March of Torture!"; "The Sergeant's wife... easy prey for the whole camp!"; "From the international best selling novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst") starring Joachim Fuchsberger, Helen Vita, Paul Bosiger, Emmerich Schrenk, and Eva Ingeborg Scholz. Note that this was the first in a series of three movies directed by Paul May. This first part concerned how the life of common soldiers in the German army was just prior to World War II, and how they interacted with the officers, most of whom came from a very different background than the common soldiers. The second part dealt with the soldiers during World War II and included battle scenes. The third part dealt with the soldiers returning home after World War II, and showed occupying American troops, portraying them as inferior to the Germans in every way, and it is notable that there is a single Jewish American officer who is shown as a stereotypical unscrupulous person not to be trusted. The three parts were adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Hans Hellmut Kirst, and the title refers to the model of rifle carried by most German soldiers during World War II. Note that as far as we can tell, only this first part was released in the U.S. (not surprising since the second and third parts have anti-Semitic elements). When it was released in the U.S., it was sensationalized as an expose of how German soldiers really were ("the story of men, brutes, and harlots"), which was definitely very deceptive! Important Added Info: Note that this is a "country of origin" item for this German movie! Also note that we have provided an image of all the pages of this 4-page program (we did this by opening it and laying it flat and photographing the front and back cover together, and the interior two pages together). This way, you see the entire program, and can well determine the exact condition of it from our super-sized image. But of course this means that the front cover appears in the top right of our image, but normally, the program would be folded down the center and you would view the cover by itself (and it will be sent folded as was originally intended). Condition: good. The program has two punch holes in the center of the left of the cover and in the corresponding area on the interior pages, because the program was stored in a 2-ring binder. Learn More about condition grades 
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