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Or, un-funningly: Titanic is a German satirical magazine which is published monthly. It is based in Frankfurt and probably Germany's best-known satirical publication, and it is one of the country's largest (approx. 100,000 copies printed). Sick or what ?
Some movies are more famous for their troubled production histories than for anything that actually reaches the screen. But few, if any, pictures have as depressing a back-story as !Titanic” (1943), a German re-imagining of the British maritime disaster that was actually produced by the Nazi party. In fact, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels grew so disgruntled with original director Herbert Selpin’s political opinions, he had him arrested and murdered during filming! Although it was intended as one of the crown jewels of German cinema, this altogether twisted film came to stand as a metaphor for the crumbling of Hitler’s brutal regime.
Forget everything James Cameron ever told you- there’s not much of a love story here. Instead, we’re treated to a steady stream of increasingly absurd anti-British propaganda. The screenplay contends that the real reason the luxury liner crashed into an iceberg resulting in more than 1,500 passenger deaths - was that the company that owned it was trying to set a speed record in order to drive up the price of its stocks. All the British characters are portrayed as greedy incompetents, if not outright pigs, and the ship’s solitary German crew member is the only hero. Leave it to the Nazis, of all people, to assert that Britain cared little for the sanctity of human life.
During filming, Selpin, who co-wrote the script with Walter Zerlett-Olfenius, unwisely made some negative remarks about the German Navy around the rest of the crew. Someone informed the Gestapo, and Selpin was promptly thrown into Prinz-Albrecht-Palais prison in Berlin. He was later found hanged in his cell, the result of a not particularly believable “suicide.” (The rest of the picture was shot by Werner Klingler, who, one can reasonably assume, kept his opinions about Hitler’s war machine to himself.)
When “Titanic” was finished, the building where its debut print was stored was leveled in an air raid (luckily, the film negative was housed in a different location). Then Goebbels began to worry that its scenes of mass panic would disturb German audiences that were experiencing their own terror during Allied air raids. The release was postponed, and the movie was finally shown, in highly edited form, only in Nazi-occupied Paris. Goebbels also barred one of the film’s lead actresses, Jolly Bohnert, from appearing in any more movies for reasons which were never made clear.
Most Germans never saw the film until it was finally released, to little fanfare, in 1949. The only good that came out of the entire production was that the rescue sequences were eventually used in “A Night to Remember” (1958), so the British got the last laugh by incorporating Goebbel’s best footage into their own movie.
Even the ship that was used during the filming of Titanic ended up in a hellish tragedy. Called the “Cap Arcona”, the vessel was commissioned to transport liberated prisoners from the brutal Nazi camp, Neuengamme. During what should have been a voyage to freedom, Allied forces accidentally fired at the Cap Arcona and sank it. The vast majority of the prisoners who didn’t die as it went under were shot and killed by nearby Nazi forces. Such horror casts a sinister shadow across what little dramatic impact the film itself generates.
Just as we thought, all answers had been covered:
Article Found: What a Titanic iceberg! German collector claims world first with photo taken days after sinking.
It sank a so-called 'unsinkable' ocean liner claiming more than 1,500 lives 90 years ago.
Now a photograph of the iceberg which holed the Titanic is going on display for the first time.
The huge mass of ice was photographed by a seaman on board a German vessel which passed through the area where the liner went down just six days after the disaster.
Stephan Rehorek, a Czech sailor on board the passenger steamer Bremen, took photographs of icebergs in the area which he had made into postcards and sent to his parents.
The prints, together with several depicting the Titanic, were found years later by a Czech ...
K.
NAZI GERMANY: Propaganda film “Titanic”
Spot on Keith!
Cheers
Terry,the date on the ticket states 10/4 /12 did'nt she sail on the 2/4/12. maybe hit the berg on the 10th.
Also no port of departure.
regards
Jim Brady.
Hi Captain Kong!
Brian,in just a few short paragraphs,you've done it again....managed to convey the emotion of that anniversary commemoration that you did.....so much can be read between the lines as well.
Your descendants will be truly grateful you've recounted your memories in this way.
Thank You
Davey(Gulliver)
its the only one in existence an original first class ticket as dawn says, you where on the right track vern but not the answer i was looking for, after viewing the ticket at the liverpool maritime museum myself recently. regards vern terry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Castleman
TITANIC/POPPY FIELDS ? regards all terry.:cool:
The poppy image is particularly apt. Poppies, which thrive in areas where the ground is churned up and no other vegetation survives – e.g., a battlefield,Site of the Titanic Snking – have for millennia been a symbol of sleep
Hence the Song! In Flanders Field where Poppies Grow!
May they rest in Peace!
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K.