Sieg im Westen

original title:
Sieg im Westen
other titles:
(Victory in the West)
country / year of production:
Germany / 1941
original length:
114 min. , black/white
premiere:
23 March 1941
genre:
Propaganda film
based on:
director:
Svend Noldan
film script:
producer:
Fritz Hippler
cinematographer:
editor:
composer:
Herbert Windt
cast (role):
more:
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (Berichtet über den Blitzkrieg) , Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel
plot synopsis:
Hitler's greatest military victory - the conquest of Holland, Belgium and France in the spring of 1940 - is graphically documented in this special Nazi feature. Here the swift joined attacks of tanks, aircrafts and infantry are presented in order to prove the Wehrmacht`s superiority.
keywords:
invasion , tanks , air force , infantry
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
C.C. Graham. „Sieg im Westen (1941). Interservice and bureaucratic propaganda rivalries in Nazi Germany“. Historical journal of Film, Radio and Television 9 (1989), 1, 19-44.

Thomas Sakmyster. „Nazi documentaries of intimidation. Feldzug in Polen (1940), Feuertaufe (1940) and Sieg im Westen (1941)“. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 16 (1996), 4, 485-514.
remarks:
availability:
Video