Propaganda Documentaries in France (1940-1944)
Résumé
In occupied France, the Nazis pursued agressive, tightly orchestrated measures designed to monopolize the French market and foster agitation against Americans, Jews, Communists, and others. The documentary film was one instrument of propaganda employed by the Nazi occupiers as well as the Vichy government and collaborationists. Nearly two hundred of those documentaries have been restored by the French Film Archives. Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit's " Propaganda in France : 1940-1944" is the first volume specifically devoted to nonfiction propaganda films distributed in France during the " dark years" of the German Occupation.