''Inside Nazi Germany'' is a 1938 short

documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

about

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

directed by Jack Glenn. It is an episode of the newsreel series ''

The March of Time ''The March of Time'' is an American newsreel series sponsored by Time Inc. and shown in movie theaters from 1935 to 1951. It was based on a radio news series broadcast from 1931 to 1945 that was produced by advertising agency Batten, Barton, ...

''.

Production

Julien Bryan Julien Hequembourg Bryan (23 May 1899 in Titusville, Pennsylvania – 20 October 1974) was an American photographer, filmmaker, and documentarian who documented the daily life in Poland, Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1939, in t ...

shot over 25,000 feet of film for the project.

Release

The Chicago Board of Censors banned the film stating that it was "unfriendly to the German government", but Police Commissioner James P. Allman overruled them.

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refused to show the film in any of its theaters.

Reception

In 1993, ''Inside Nazi Germany'' was deemed "culturally significant" by the

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and selected for preservation in the United States

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* * Genzlinger, Neil
"'March of Time' Documentary Series Is Revisited"
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'', September 2, 2010 *
Inside Nazi Germany
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"Movie of the Week: ''The March of Time — Inside Nazi Germany''
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