Hitler Youth Quex
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Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend (Hitler Youth Quex: A film about the sacrificial spirit of German youth) is a 1933 film directed by Hans Steinhoff. Based on the story of Herbert Norkus, it was written by Bobby E. Lüthge and K.A. Schenzinger (who also wrote the novel, Hitlerjunge Quex, on which it is based).
It is named after the protagonist, a Hitler Youth with the nickname "Quex," i.e. quicksilver, who is killed by German Communists while giving out Nazi propaganda.
[edit] References
"An Analysis of the Nazi Film ‘Hitlerjunge Quex’" by Gregory Bateson, in Studies in Visual Communication, No 4., 1980, p. 20-55....
Essential Modern World History p 372
[edit] See also
- List of films made in the Third Reich
- National socialist film policy
- List of films made in Weimar Germany
[edit] External links
- Hitlerjunge Quex at the Internet Movie Database
- Complete film at Google. No subtites.
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