Nazi propaganda's final, desperate fever dream — history's most damning home movie.
"Götterdämmerung 1945: The last 10 weeks of the Third Reich" - from the battle of the Ardennes till the end. Die Deutsche Wochenschau (The German Weekly Review) was the title of the unified newsreel series released in the cinemas of Nazi Germany from 1940 until the end of World War II.
Direction
Goebbels' machine choking on its own lies.
Editing
Desperate cuts between defeat and fake triumph.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Title references Wagner's opera where gods destroy themselves — Goebbels' own mythos turned ironic.
Die Deutsche Wochenschau ran until May 1945; the final issue was never distributed. This compilation includes footage suppressed even then.
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