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Description
The war in Europe was reaching its cataclysmic final months with
Germany surrounded on all sides. Most of Hitler's forces had been driven
from Poland by the Red Army and the Soviets were poised a short distance
from Berlin, while the Western allies, having repulsed the Führer's
Ardennes offensive, were preparing to cross the Rhine.More than ever
Hitler needed his people to stiffen their resolve for the coming
onslaught. To demonstrate what will be expected of the German people,
and what they could achieve if they refused to acknowledge defeat, a
major feature film would be shown, featuring the legendary place which
held out against Napoleon when he invaded Prussia in 1806 - the city of
Kolberg.After crushing the Prussian Army in 1806, French forces swept
into the Prussian province of Pomerania. One by one most Prussian
fortresses surrendered, mostly without offering any resistance, but
Kolberg stood firm. The small and weakly-fortified city held out for
almost four months despite being surrounded by Napoleon's forces, with
Major von Gneisenau organising a citizen's militia to aid the army in
its defence. Though much of the city was blasted into ruin, Kolberg
remained in Prussian hands until the war with France ended with the
signing of the Peace of Tilsit, by which time its defence had become
legendary.Even though the Third Reich was literally entering its deaththroes,
in attempting to reproduce the siege of Kolberg on film,
thousands of experts, extras and horses were taken from the war effort
by the Reich Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. The film's
emphasis was to show how civilians and the military can work together to
save Germany - just as Kolberg had been saved from the French. The
result has been stated to be the most expensive feature film ever made
in Germany.This book examines the dramatic conditions under which the
film was produced, and the scale of the resources needed to do so,
followed by its first showing on 30 January 1945. All Goebbels' efforts,
though, were to no avail, as the film never went on general release. A
month later, as the author reveals, Kolberg found itself under siege
once again, but this time, after bitter house-to-house fighting, it fell
to the Soviets in just two weeks.