Panorama of the World

 

Human history is replete with turning points that have altered the course of culture and thought. One of these, the invention of the printin...

The Holocaust, a dark and incomprehensible period in human history, left deep scars on the soul of the Jewish people. The stories of the sur...

  Some thinkers argue that the Nazis aspired to reshape occupied Europe according to their own cinematic vision, and Technicolor, an advance...

  The Theme of Greed Immortalized in Films of the Era: "Woman in the Moon" (1929) is a German film considered one of the first ser...

  Erasing Jewish Identity The Nazis were not content with annihilating Eastern European Jewry and plundering all their possessions. They als...

  Germanization and the Nazi Woman Within the policy framework based on benefits, women held a privileged position in the Nazi regime. Hitle...

  From Corpses to Commodities In the extermination camps, the German Reich profited even from the corpses. Gold teeth were extracted from vi...

  Plunder and the Holocaust In his book, replete with charts, calculations, and citations, Götz Aly argues that the plunder of occupied terr...

Throughout his life George Lucas had a number of major interests in addition to cinema: anthropology, politics, history, mythology, adventur...

Hans Bertram is the third in the Nazi regime, after Ernest Udet and Carl Ritter, who combined a career as a fighter pilot with a film career...

Given the large number of aviation films, it is surprising that the connection between "cinema, aviation, nationalism and myth" ha...

Aviation was identified from its earliest days with spiritual flight and similarly became an archetypal symbol of human spirit and freedom. ...