Hitler — Films from Germany

1. Introduction
Karolin Machtans, Martin A. Ruehl

Part I. Totem and Taboo

2. The Führer’s Fake: Presence of an Afterlife
Eric Rentschler

3. ‘Hitler’s Shadow Still Looms over Us’: G. W. Pabst’s The Last Ten Days as Film and Event
Michael Töteberg

4. Our Hitler: A Film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Thomas Elsaesser

Part II. Another Hitler

5. Entombing the Nazi Past: On Downfall and Historicism
Sabine Hake

6. Tragedy and Farce: Dani Levy’s Mein Führer
Michael D. Richardson

7. Man, Demon, Icon: Hitler’s Image between Cinematic Representation and Historical Reality
Michael Elm

8. Hitler Wars: Guilt and Complicity from Hirschbiegel to Harald Schmidt
Michael Butter

Part III. Approximations

9. Hitler Nonfictional: On Didacticism and Exploitation in Recent Documentary Films
Kerstin Stutterheim

10. Encountering Hitler: Seductive Charisma and Memory Spaces in Heinrich Breloer’s Speer & Hitler
Axel Bangert

11. Far Away So Close: Loving to Hate Hitler
Johannes Moltke

Avainsanat: History, Cultural History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, European History, Modern History, US History, Film and Television Studies