¡Nur gingen wir Soldaten!

Representations of the soldier of the Third Reich in the German cinematographic discourse of the immediate postwar period

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyse some cinematographic discourse representations of the Third Reich German soldiers into the Germany's rearming during 1955 and the breakdown caused in the previous years. Two topics will be investigated in this research. On the one hand, the German cinema and the discourse over Nazism. On the other hand, the considerable change produced as a consequence of international geopolitical vicissitudes, discourse changes, discourse appropriation and uses made in the past into the German cinema. Finally, the German film “It happened on July 20^th” was a trigger factor of this analysis. According to Foucault’s point of view, it can be observed as a link in a complex chain of discourses.