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Following regular requests to produce a CD featuring purely military instrumental tracks and after further research in the archives we are pleased to release a superb all-new collection featuring the Third Reich’s elite Musikkorps, including the Bodyguard Divisional band of the Leibstandarte-SS ‘Adolf Hitler’, the Musikkorps of the Infanterie-Regiments ‘Grossdeutchsland’ and the bands of the Reich’s famous military music schools, performing some of the very best of the period’s stirring instrumental marches.

Viewed with the same seriousness as combat personnel, career military bandsmen of the Reich were recruited from the following backgrounds: professional musicians who answered adverts in the Deutsche Militärmusikerzeitung for posts within the newly formed Wehrmacht and SS Musikkorps during the pre-war period, or who applied to join a military band after the outbreak of war in 1939; fully trained Hitlerjugend musicians spotted by SS and Wehrmacht Musikmeisters and invited to join the korps or divisional band; part-time ‘hobby’ musicians spotted by their regimental bands as potential recruits for formal military music training and finally, professional military musicians recruited, upon completion of their musical training, to the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS's respective military music academies.

As a result, some of Germany’s finest military musicians passed through the top Militär Musikschulen into the Regimental bands of the Reich’s elite Musikkorps and this CD brings you 15 of their finest instrumental performances including, Panzerschiff Deutschland – Waldmannsheil – Reiterlust - Der Eiserne - Gruss an Kiel - Aufwärts zur Sonne - Hacketauer Marsch - Regimentsgruss - Sturmende Jugend - Marsch des Panzergrenadier-Regiments Nr.1 - Jugend Marschiert - Weichsel und Warthe - Luftsport Voran - Folies Bergeres and Badenweiler Marsch…

Duration: 42mins.

Born in Stuttgart in 1900, and a talented pre-war bass singer with the fledgling Westdeutscher Rundfunk radio station in Ko"ln, Wilhelm Strienz was initially banned from performing in Nazi Germany for refusing to join the Nazi Party. But weathering that awkward period of his life, it was eventually the Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht that would bring his talent to an international audience and establish one song at the heart of this famous radio request show!

A mother, heart breaking from the death of her son in the Poland, sat by her radio listening to the names of other young soldiers sending greetings to their mothers and rang the station…”I have in my hand the notebook of my dear son and on the last page are lyrics to a song he liked to sing, entitled ‘Good Night Mother’- now he’s dead, this must be his last greeting to me….”

“I know that song” exclaimed Wilhelm Strienz and as compere Heinz Goedecke narrated her story adding: “Walter has died not just for you, but for everyone”…Wilhelm’s moving rendition of ‘Gute Nacht Mutter’ filled the speaker and a German radio legend was born. Now this heart-rending collection offers a producer’s introduction together with 14 of his most poignant Third Reich songs including: Glocken der Heimat, Sternenlied, Heimweh, Auch war ein Ju"ngling, Abends in der Taverne, Heimat deine Sterne and of course the legendary Gute Nacht Mutter…

Duration : 45mins.

Prussian Cavalry Music, with its distinctive trumpet & kettledrum instrumentation and its instantly recognizable ‘trotting cadence’ was an important part of the German military musical inventory and one of its leading exponents was Spandau’s Musikkorps.3.Batl.9.Inf.Regt. originally directed by Adolf Becker.

Following the disbandment of the German Army in 1919 in compliance with the Treaty of Versailles, a new 100,000-man Reichswehr was eventually created for the new Weimar Republic, and with but a handful of regiments compared to those of Imperial Germany, new battalions would have to represent the previously hard-won honours & traditions of entire former regiments.

So it was that the III Battalion 9th Infantry Regiment’s Musikkorps became the new ‘Tradition-bearers’ for the old Kaiser Franz Garde-Grenadier Regiment Nr.2 and, often referred to up until 1945 as the ‘Franzers’, was initially led by Adolf Becker, who had been bandmaster of the old Kaiser Franz Regiment, and the very epitome of the Prussian soldier and one of the youngest ever Guard Obermusikmeisters.

The original band members of the 3.Batl.9.Inf.Regt. were drawn from the old Prussian Guards ‘Franzers’ band and continued to be led by Adolf Becker, until Adolf Berdien took over the position upon Becker’s retirement in the mid 1930’s and now, along with two rare performances by the Wehrmacht’s mounted Trompeter-Korps d.Reiter-Regt. Potsdam supported by the in-house military orchestras of the Odeon & Grammophon record labels, this wonderful CD offers a producer’s introduction and 14 evocative tracks including: Der alte Dessauer-Marsch, Allen voran, Hohenfriedberger Marsch, Marsch der finnländischen Reiterei, Kavallerie-Parademarsch, Defiliermarsch, Herzog von Braunschweig-Marsch, Kreuzritter Fanfare and Mit allen Schikanen…

Duration : 42mins.

Born Liese-Lotte Bunnenberg in Bremerhaven in 1905, and originally a Berlin night-club singer, it was Soldatensender Belgrad & its Afrikakorps audience in the Western Desert that made Lale Andersen Germany’s war-time “Forces Sweetheart”.

Before war’s outbreak she married a Swiss national and, from Zurich, had criticised the Nazi regime whereby an enraged Propagandaminister Goebbels ordered her back to base her career in Germany, putting her under Gestapo surveillance. However Lale planned a later escape back to Switzerland following a 1942 troop concert in Italy but her letters were intercepted and she was seized on Milan railway station. Condemned to the concentration camps, she was allowed home to finalise her affairs but attempted suicide: Goebbels had blundered for Lale-aka-Lili Marleen had become an international figure and fearing a propaganda disaster, spared her life but banished her to her grandparents home on the Friesian island of Langeoog where she saw out the war.

At war’s end in 1945, Allied Forces Radio invited her to sing to British fans and tours of America & Britain followed before retirement in 1952, tragically suffering a fatal heart-attack in 1972, aged 64. Now this CD offers a producer’s introduction together with 13 of her most famous war-time songs including: Der junge an der Reling, Drei Rote Rosen, Es fährt ein Schiff, Heinemann, Der Feldmohn, Unter der Rote Laterne von St Pauli and of course, the one and only, Lili Marleen..!

Duration : 45mins.

The German Federal Republic was created on September 7th 1949 with the formation of the Bundestag under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer but it wasn't until 6 years later that this new West German state was permitted to raise its own independent Armed Forces.

The first military in-take on November 12th 1955 comprised volunteers from the Federal Border Guard, with all candidates screened to prevent former Third Reich era Wehrmacht & Waffen-SS members re-enlisting. However at least four former musicians from Hitler’s bodyguard division, the SS-Leibstandarte 'Adolf Hitler' and a number of younger Wehrmacht musicians were known to have ‘slipped though the net’ and these experienced WW-II veterans would help continue Germany’s famous military musical traditions into the early days of the fledgling Bundeswehr in the late 1950s.

The Stabsmusikkorps der Bundeswehr (Staff Band of the Army) was created on February 16th 1957 under a training designation (Lehrmusikkorps) at Rheinbach near Bonn, initially with 16 musicians, though on June 16th 1957 Hauptmann Friedrich Deisenroth took over musical command and a month later increased this new musical strength to 50 bandsmen. Their first duties included playing alongside the Bundeswehr’s Wachbataillon Honour Guard in the new capital city of Bonn whilst September saw its first performance in public.

In November 1957 the Stabsmusikkorps had undertaken its maiden studio recording session and, seen for many years as West Germany’s most elite and accomplished new musikkorps, (before Germany’s Green Party and its allies would succeed in watering down all West German military music to an almost unrecogniseable imitation of its former self), this stunning CD offers a producer’s introduction and 14 superb instrumental marches from that first recording played in the true, pre-war Janissary style that harked back to the musical glory days of the Third Reich including:Der Badenweiler, Parademarsch Nr.1, Bayerischer Defiliermarsch, Marsch des Yorck’schen Korps, Der Torgauer Parademarsch, Nationalhymne, Des Grossen Kurfürsten Reitermarsch, Koburgermarsch and Zum Städtele hinaus…

Duration : 45mins.

Berlin’s suburb of Babelsburg was home to Germany’s pre-war ‘Hollywood’ and its leading production company Universum Film AG (Ufa) who’d contracted the popular Swedish singer & actress Zarah Leander who, born, Zarah Stina Heberg in Karlstad in 1907, had been a star of Sweden’s ‘silver screen’ in the early 30s.

Hollywood beckoned, but newly divorced with small children she stayed in Europe and, fluent in German, looked to the Reich where, in 1936, she earned a Ufa movie contract, but known as a tough negotiator she demanded huge salaries, paid in Swedish Kroner, much to Propagandaminister Goebbels’ annoyance, who dubbed her an "Enemy of Germany". However, loved by Hitler and a performer in ten of Ufa’s most successful films, her career flourished playing the role of a Femme Fatale.

In 1943 her Berlin villa was hit during an air-raid and, combined with Nazi pressure to apply for German citizenship, she returned to Sweden after her film 1943 movie ‘Damals’. But following Germany’s defeat at Stalingrad, neutral-Swedish opinion turned to sympathy for the Allies and Zarah Leander was shunned. Post-war she returned to Germany but never regained her previous popularity. Now this CD offers a producer’s introduction togther with 13 of her most well-known Third Reich Ufa recordings including: Reite, kleiner Reiter, Ich steh’im Regen, Schiff ahoi, Mein Leben fu"r die Liebe-jawohl! Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt and Merci, mon ami..

Duration : 41mins.

93,857 musicians were under contract across the Third Reich in 1933 but by war’s outbreak in 1939 this had grown to 172,443, thanks to Propagandaminister Joseph Goebbels realising the power of music & radio on the population and within a year of the Nazis coming to power, some 5 million German homes were receiving radio broadcasts.

Goebbels balanced entertainment with politics and by 1938 light entertainment music, (Unterhaltungsmusik), accounted for nearly two thirds of all music output. German radio was popular for its willingness to play the latest dance records and by war’s outbreak in 1939, the number of listeners had risen to 10 million and the demand for Unterhaltungsmusik grew so much, that Goebbels ordered more be broadcast and Hungarian musician Barnabas von Géczy (1897-1971), an accomplished band-leader & violinist in 1930s’ Berlin, took a starring role in this musical renaissance.

As a favourite of Adolf Hitler he soon became famous throughout the Reich leading his own dance orchestra and by 1941, over 50 million listeners were tuning in to his broadcasts. Now this exciting CD produced from a shellack collection found in Dachau offers a producer’s introduction together with 13 of those wonderful dance-tracks so beloved of The Führer including: Komm mit nach Madeira, Kautschuk, Sag’beim Abschied leise Servus, Ich tanze mit dir in Himmel hinein, Gute Laune, Frische Brise, Abendlied and Es geht nicht ohne Liebe…

Duration : 41mins.

Discovered in 1997 in the attic of a house in the medieval Eastern German town of Quedlinburg by music-enthusiast Tony Dean, this unique collection of the earliest-known German military 78rpm-shellacks survived the upheaval of the First World War, the Allied saturation bombing of World War II and the post-war Russian Occupation and now, almost 100 years on, have been painstakingly restored by one of the UK’s most experienced studio engineers, Simon Wood, using the latest versions of Cedar Noise Reduction and the updated Sadie-DEW audio-editing systems!

Offering the rarest insight into German Instrumental and Bandstand Music of the Great War, these incredible old shellacks were originally recorded before Spring 1916 and are representative of the 78rpm records German officers played on their wind-up gramophones in the trenches, so reminding them of the ‘golden years of peace’ before August 1914!A selection of WW1 artefacts

Working with antique recordings of bands playing 'live' into a large horn onto wax cylinders, some very old faults cannot be remedied without physically altering the integrity of those records, so in places the odd, click, hiss or tiny section of distortion will still be apparent, but remembering their true age and rarity, one must marvel at the stunning job that ‘Woody’ has done to bring these recordings back to life!

16 instrumental tracks include : Marsch des 1. Bataillons-Garde, Mussinan-Marsch, König Karl Marsch, Parademarsch im Galopp, Fridericus-Rex-Grenadiermarsch, Töne Jubel Marsch, Sternengefunkel, Johann Marsch mit Frohsinn, Trabmarsch des 1.Garde-Ulanen and the Kaiser Friedrich Marsch performed by Musikkorps der Garde-Pioniere Berlin, Garde-Kürassier-Regiment, Musikkorps des 106. Inf.-Regt. “König Georg”, Kaiser-Franz-Garde-Grenadier-Regiment and the Musikkorps der Kaiserl. II Seebataillons, Wilhelmshaven...

Duration: 43mins.

Though Christmas in war-time is a turbulent mix of emotions, and never more so than during the 6 winters endured by German Forces and their families in World War Two, Germany actually lays claim to many of the seasonal traditions, from trimming the Tannenbaum (Christmas Tree) to the Advendskranz (Advent Wreath); also the eve of December 6th (Nikolaustag), festivities when the Reich’s children placed a boot by the fireplace and St Nikolaus, the Patron Saint of Children, would visit each house, noting misdeeds in his Book of Sins and leaving out sweets for those good, twigs for those bad!. Then from December 6th onwards, the children would leave letters on their window-sills for the gift-bearing Christkind (Christ Child), an angel-child wearing a crown of candles.

Third Reich Christmas carols 1939-1944Meanwhile, soldiers at the Front made traditional wooden gifts to send home in the packs of comrades lucky enough to receive an Urlaubschein (Leave Pass) whilst many Germans across the Reich hung up Advenzkranz of holly & four red candles, lighting one each Sunday, as the children used the Advent calendar to count down to Christmas Eve, the day Germany celebrates Christmas and the Weihnachtsmann arrives, also bearing gifts. A room in the house or barracks would be locked through December, to be opened on Christmas Eve to reveal a decorated Tannenbaum, originally discovered by Martin Luther in the 1550s who cut down a forest evergreen and decorated it with candles & sweets for his daughter’s nursery.

Back at the Front, troops decorated their trees for bunker or mess-room, and prepared a goose for the table along with traditional ‘Dresden Stollen’, a heavy, fruit-filled bread …but as the war deteriorated, Christmas fare was replaced by lesser rations and at home seasonal bells were replaced by air-raid sirens as Goebbels’ propaganda radio broadcasts helped lessen the magic, nevertheless the wondrous traditional German carols, played on wind-up gramophones in fox-holes or broadcast via Soldatensender (Forces Radio), did much to lift the spirits of the troops and remind them of happier Christmas’ at home…and these are 12 of those emotive shellack recordings including: O’Tannenbaum, Weihnachtsglockenspiel, Ihr Kinderlein Kommet, Süsser die Glocken nie Klingen, Kinderjubel am Weihnachtsabend and Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht, performed by Hans Tolksdorf mit Kinderchor, Erwin Hartung, Der Kindern Kleines Orchester, Gebrüder-Steiner-Quartett and Des Chores des Staats-Oper Berlin…

"This wonderful, emotional CD is a superb illustration that there was another, very personal side to the war...highly recommended!"

Stuart C McKenzie

Author,

"Collecting Third Reich Recordings"

Duration : 40mins.

East germanys Elite MusikKorps 1949-1989. The DDR was created on October 11th 1949 with a new Parliament sited in East Berlin and a new Nationale Volksarmee, whose musical requirements were provided by Staff (Stabsmusikkorps) & Line bands (Musikkorps):

21 Musikkorps were eventually established: from Berlin’s Zentrales Orchester and Stabsmusikkorps und Spielmannszug der Stadkommandantur Berlin down to 19 Musikkorps across 4 branches of East Germany’s military service. Stabsmusikkorps Kommandantur Berlin was the designated army band for the Wachregiment ‘Friedrich Engels’, undertaking all military functions at Schönefeld Airport & in the city of Berlin, whilst 'non-military' ceremonies involving Western dignitaries were undertaken by the orchestra of the 'non-NVA' Ministry of State Security's crack unit tasked with defence of the Communist Party, the Wachregiment 'Feliks Dzierzynski'.

The Army (Landstreitkräfte) had a Stabsmusikkorps and 8 Musikkorps, the Air Force & Air Defence Arm (Luftstreitkräfte und Luftverteidigung) a Stabsmusikkorps & a Musikkorps, the Navy (Volksmarine) 1 Stabsmusikkorps & 2 Musikkorps and the Border Troops (Grenztruppen) 1 Stabsmusikkorps & 3 Musikkorps and, to fulfil the state’s political demands, the ‘Erich-Weinert Ensemble’ was established in 1950 as an ‘artistic institution of the NVA.’

Many former Wehrmacht ‘founding fathers’ of East German military music had served under Air Force Head of Music, Prof. Husadel and that exciting ‘Luftwaffe feel’ could still be heard in the post-war performances of the elite Berlin Volkspolizei band, the Zentrales Orchester des MdI, (Ministerium des Innern), notable for its pre-‘45 feel of a strident janissary beat with distinctive high-pitched twirls & embellishments of the woodwind section’s clarinets & piccolos!

DDR Musikkorps details were a state secret and a band would often appear, record an album and disappear into the mists, leaving East German military music as something of an enigma during the days of the Cold War; but Tomahawk Films are pleased to release this exciting & definitive mix of new & old marches in the true German military tradition, including the unique sound of the Kamfpgruppen, (Communist Territorial Army), playing the Schalmei, distinctive multi-horn evoking memories of the Nazi & Communist street fighting days of the 1930s.

18 rare tracks include: Fanfarenklänge, Im Paradeschritt, Lied der Nationalen Volksarmee, Berlin Bleibt Rot, Fichte Marsch, Nationalhymne, Volksmarine Marsch, ‘Stasi’ Wachregiments Lied, Parademarsch Nr.1 and a secret live recording of the Wachregiment ‘Friedrich Engels’ changing the guard at Strausberg Barracks…!

Duration: 47 mins.

A rare collection of Nazi Propaganda swing 1940-1945.One of the lesser know theatres of World War Two was the Battle of the Airwaves and the leading exponents were the radio producers of the Reich’s Propaganda Ministry in Berlin, whose short-wave radio broadcasts from Reichssender Berlin took many forms. Whilst Lord Haw-Haw remains the most infamous voice heard on these Nazi air-waves, The Lutz Templin Orchestra of Charlie and his Orchestra fame was, broadcasting to the outside world, perhaps one of the most widely listened to!

Nazi Propaganda Swing 1940-1945 CDWorking directly to Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, a team of top composers & lyricists set about parodying well-known American Jazz, Blues & Swing classics of the day and specifically penned, first anti-British & anti-Semitic lyrics, thence anti-American & Soviet broadsides, which Propaganda Ministry linguists would then translate into English for broadcast.

Whilst ‘Charlie’ in the title was believed to be famous German crooner Karl Schwedler, (who was allowed to travel throughout occupied France, Holland & neutral Sweden, to collect examples of the latest Anglo-American music, banned in Nazi Germany), it was band co-leader Lutz Templin who was the driving force behind the parodies’ musical arrangements.

Though the band line-up changed regularly between 1940 & 1945 as many of its professional German musicians, (drafted into the Wehrmacht & Waffen-SS Musikkorps), were replaced by Belgian & Dutch musicians from the Occupied countries, Templin’s continued influence could be felt as the band performed in Berlin and then, as the Allied bombing of Germany intensified, relocated to perform & continue broadcasting on short-wave radio, (Kurzwellensender), in Stuttgart from the Summer of 1943.

As the war raged on, so the skits parodied different events & countries involved in the war effort, but the songs never lost their distinctive feel of 1940’s war-time radio and this superb 16-track collection of clever English lyrics, ranging from the funny to the vitriolic, offers some stunning Nazi Propaganda Swing classics such as: United Nations’ Airman, I Double-Dare You, Miss BBC, Daisy, A Pocket Full of Dreams, Why’d You Make Me Fall in Love?, Siegfried Line, Elmer’s Tune, Dinah, Sheik of Araby, Picture… ‘Bye ‘Bye Empire, Black-Out Blues, You’re Driving Me Crazy! plus, at Goebbels’ insistence, two poignant Lale Andersen vocals on Under an Umbrella & Lili Marleen. which, also sung in English, were specifically aimed at capitalizing on the home-sickness many Allied servicemen posted overseas would already be feeling…!

Duration: 45 mins.

In 1935 the Luftwaffe's Musikkorps were keen to announce their arrival and introduced a distinctive style of brass music to emphasise this newest arm of the Wehrmacht. The newly-appointed Luftwaffenmusikinspizient Prof. Hans Felix Husadel, un-bound by the strict tradition of the army, set about 'freeing' Luftwaffe music and brought the full range of clarinets, bass trumpet and alto-slide trombone into the musical line-up, plus the saxophone, so breaking a previously long-held boycott of this, supposedly, 'Negro instrument'.

With the enthusiastic support of Herman Göring, a change to the construction of existing instruments was also made and the much-beloved traditional rotary valves were replaced on the bass trumpet by pump valves! In a further move, Husadel engaged composers who would write specifically for the new arm to develop a modern style of military band music more similar to the American 'Sousa' style than the old traditional Prusso-German marches.

With Prof. Husadel's own modern compositions A luftwaffe pilottogether with his introduction of silver-plated instruments over the standard army and navy brass finishes, a modern look and sound for the Luftwaffe's military bands was guaranteed. This success was fundamental in promoting a real feeling of elitism and pride in the newest military arm of the Third Reich.Luftwaffe trainee bugler

All Luftwaffe Geschwader paraded both a Musikkorps and a fife and drum Spielleute and Tomahawk Films are pleased to present a further superb 14 digitally remastered tracks performed by the Musikkorps der General Göring Regiment and the Stabsmusikkorps des Reichsluftministeriums - 'Viele schwarze Vögel - Deutsche Piloten - Marsch des Jagdgeschwaders 'Richthofen' - Fallschirmjäger greifen an - Stuka vor! - Lied der Junkers 88 - Rot scheint die Sonne - Flieger sind Sieger - Es blitzen die stählernen Schwingen - Bomben auf Engeland! - Lied der Flak-Artillerie - Flieger sein heisst Sieger sein - Lied der Junker Flugwerke - Ich hatt einen Kameraden ...

Duration: 41mins.

Kriegsmarine bands were divided into two categories: permanently shore-based bands attached to the Naval Commands Ostsee and Nordsee, ship's cadre battalions, NCO instruction battalions and the Marine coastal artillery battalions (Küstenartillerie).

Sleeve of Musik der Kriegsmarine CDParading in the German navy's standard field-grey service dress, these land-based marines were full-time career musicians who performed at all important formal Kriegsmarine functions. With a complement of 26 full-time junior NCO's and ratings, these Musikkorps performed a cross-section of musical duties from the large ceremonial parades to quay-side departures and arrivals of ships and U-boats.

The second category comprised naval bands attached to ships of the German High Seas Fleet; known as Bordmusikkorps, these ship-borne musicians were then sub-divided into bands serving on the bigger battleships and battle-cruisers such as the Scharnhorst Kreigsmarine trainee musiciansand Tirpitz, known as Geschwadermusikkorps, and smaller bands serving with destroyer, corvette and minesweeper fleets, known as Kleine Schiffsmusikkorps.

Wearing the standard blue 'square rig'uniform, all major Fleet Commands (Flottenkommando) had a Geschwader musikkorps which normally consisted of between 26 and 40 junior NCOs and ratings drawn from the naval music career path. The smaller were Kreigsmarine trainee buglercomposed of 9 volunteer ratings and NCOs who played in the band as a spare-time activity in addition to their normal duties as seamen, gunners, divers, engineers etc, under the musical direction of a junior NCO career musician in the rank of Musikobermaat.

14-track mix of naval military music and sea shanties performed by the Musikkorps der Landmarineteile der Ostsee und Nordsee : 'Wir ziehen nach Engeland - Der letze Mann! - Die Flottenmarsch - Mit vollen Segeln - Unsere Marine - Heutes geht es an Bord - Gold und Silber - Minensucherlied - Deutsch ist die Saar - Windstärke - Das Lied der E-Bootfahrer - Rüber über den Kanal - Wildganse rauschen - Heut’ stechen wir uns blaue Meer…

Duration: 41mins

Adolf Hitler harnessed the power of music but it was actually Josef Goebbels who ensured that National Socialism adopted it as a part of German daily life through the semi-professional bands of theSleeve for Hitlerjugend 'brown-shirted' Sturm-Abteilung and the enthusiasm of the nation's youth.

Whilst the 'Horst Wessel' song was the most recognisable in the history of Nazi Germany and its' faithful 'S.A. Stormtroopers' and synonymous with the Third Reich, Hitlerjugend musical education was originally centred around the traditional German folk song. However, still being essentially a political and ideological organisation, like the SA, more emphasis was eventually placed on solemn military and fighting songs, through which the ten-to-eighteen year olds could re-affirm their commitment to Adolf Hitler and his ideals!

This was to result in the youngsters, (whose lusty singing and marching was a complete world away from traditional German military music), taking a rebellious pride in the fact that all their early activities were performed without any help from the experts, rejecting the 'know-it-all' attitudes of their S.A. musical peers!

A Wehrmacht clarinet playerGradually the Hitlerjugend Hitler Youth drummerevolved into a powerful political youth organisation whose leadership began to control every aspect of music and gifted youngsters were sent to the Musikschulen für Jugend und Volk and from this early 'rag-tag' musical education of S.A. street-fighting songs would come many talented future Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS military bandsmen, conductors and musical directors.

14 of some of the best digitally re-mastered S.A. and H.J. Fighting and Marching songs: Horst Wessel Lied - Jugend will marschieren! - Zittern die morschen Knochen - Junge Mannschaft im Südosten - Deutschland erwache! - Solang’ wir jung sind - Die braune Kompanie - Ich bin der Bub vom Fuldatal - Am Adolf Hitler Platz - Morgen marschieren wir - Wir sind die braunen Soldaten - Die Jugend marschiert - Deutschland du Land der Treue - Wenn die SS und die SA aufmarschiert…

Duration: 41mins.

Such has been the wonderful success of the first Veteran Soldatenchor Minden's recording Die Waffen-SS Alte Kameraden Singen! since we proudly went into the studio to re-master their original tracks and market this album, that Tomahawk Films are delighted to have been offered the opportunity to re-master and promote a second studio session that this incredible choir of Waffen-SS Veteran combat soldiers also recorded in the early post-war years.

Sleeve of the Soldatenlieder und Hornsignale der Waffen-SS CDEntitled Soldatenlieder und Hornsignale der Waffen-SS, (Soldier Songs and Military Bugle Calls), this remarkable album contains a further 10 stirring and heart-rending tracks, including In Junkers Kneipe, Ganz einsam und verlassen, Soll ich Dir mein Liebchen nennen, Wir lagen vor Madagaskar, Ein Tiroler wollte jagen, Frühmorgens singt die Amsel and an emotional and quite stunning male-voice rendition of Lili Marleen, all sung in the haunting acapella-style by this 50-strong choir drawn from the former ranks of Das Reich, Germania, Der Führer, Totenkopf, Wiking and the SS-Leibstandarte 'Adolf Hitler'…

However, totally unique to this production is the inclusion between each song-track of a distinct and specific bugle called as used by the Waffen-SS both in combat and on the parade ground, by Waffen-SS company buglers performed here by former Waffen-SS Stabshornist Arthur Schulte. A range of 11 important and historical calls included from the Waffen-SS inventory include:

Wecken- Reveille, Rasch Vorwärts - Quick Advance, Das Ganze halt - All Halt, Sammeln - Assembly, Vergatterung - Parade the Guard, Trab - Trot and Locken zum Zapfenstreich - First Post…

Duration: 37mins.

To The Third Reich, January 31st 1933 Following a Sleeve of Hitler's first broadcastmeteoric rise to prominence, Adolf Hitler was asked by President Hindenburg, on January 30th 1933, to become Germany's new Chancellor, believing the power, of high office would rein in his more extreme policies. But within a short space of time his Nazi Party would control every aspect of German life, including the Armed Forces, for the next 12 years. Recognising the power of radio, Hitler wasted no time in reaching out to the German people and on January 31st 1933, the day after assuming power as Reichskanzler, he made his first national address.

Accompanied by 6 rare recordings of the Musikkorps der SS-Leibstandarte 'Adolf Hitler', including Deutschland Waffenehre, Argonner-Marsch, Grosse Historische Marsch and Deutschland uber Alles, Hitler chillingly sets out his vision for a new Germany. A totally unique recording, with Adolf Hitler at his most relaxed, giving the listener a real image of the man, long before the days of his staged 'theatrical rages' for the benefit of the cinema-newsreel cameras and the Party faithful.

Now digitally re-mastered by British music industry engineers and released for the very first time on CD, Adolf Hitler's address to the nation comes on a CD with both a faithful German transcript and a complete English translation, so offering a complete understanding of this most famous of all his speeches to the Third Reich! Cassettes of the broadcast are also available - complete with translation and transcript.

Duration: 40mins.

Alte Kameraden Singen. After the Second World War, fifty former soldiers drawn from the elite units of the Waffen-SS including Das Reich, Germania, Der Führer, Wiking, Totenkopf Sleeve of Die Waffen-SS Alte Kameraden Singen! CDand the SS-Leibstandarte 'Adolf Hitler', came together to record some of the most famous German military marching songs, which recalled the days when they were Adolf Hitler's favourite soldiers. Now older, but with voices still strong and true and with shared memories as Germany's finest combat soldiers stemming the Russian forces on the Eastern Front and taking on the might of the Allied Forces in Normandy still just as vivid, these upright Waffen-SS veterans once again recreate some of the finest and evocative Marschlieder as would have been sung on the march.

The original recording was made in a small room above a bier-keller in the attractive German town of Minden and conducted by former SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Bunge, himself the wartime SS-Chor und Musikmeister with the elite Waffen-SS Musikkorps 'Deutschland' and now Tomahawk Films, courtesy of the Waffen-SS Veterans' Soldatenchor of Minden under the leadership of Willy Casselmann, have been generously granted the exclusive world rights to digitally remaster and release this wonderfullyCD and other items evocative recording.

Die Waffen-SS Alte Kameraden Singen! offers 14 of the finest heart-rending and emotional recordings of such famous songs as ...... Ein Heller und ein Batzen .. Westerwaldlied .. Est ist so schon, Soldat zu zein .. Wildganse rauschen durch die Nacht .. Der junge Fahnrich ..Wir ziehen unsere Strasse .. Argonnerwald um Mitternacht .. Ich bin ein freier Wildbretschutz .. Markische Heide .. Frühmorgens wem die Hahne krah'n .. Infanterie, du bist die Krone .. Gute Nacht Kameraden .. Wenn alle untreu werden .. plus the complete version of one of the most widely requested German Korps songs 'Ob's sturmt, oder schneit', or better known as the 'Panzerlied', the song that will forever be associated with Warner Brother's classic World War Two movie 'The Battle of the Bulge'.

Duration: 40mins.

Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Formed in 1933, the military band of the Adolf Hitler's Bodyguard Division, the Leibstandarte-SS, was to become the most famous of all SS-Hauptscharführer Gustav Weissenbornpre-war Musikkorps in the history of the Third Reich; in their black ceremonial uniforms and under the musical leadership of Hermann Muller-John and his deputy SS-Hauptscharführer Gustav Weissenborn, seen on the left, German military music was performed at the very highest level by this elite and much favoured unit.

The Summer and Winter Olympics of 1936, the Nuremburg Rallies, visits by foreign dignitaries, the Führer's birthday, the Musikkorps of the Leibstandarte-SS was always in full attendance and performing a polished repetoire of the most exciting military music of the era.

Now digitally remastered by British sound engineers from the original pre-1940 78 rpm shellac records this totally unique CD and cassette contains 14 of the finest recording of the Musikkorps of the Leibstandarte-SS 'Adolf Hitler'. The tracks are the rare Oath of Allegiance, Horst Wessel Lied, Die Landpartie, Edelweis, In Den Ostwind Hebt Die Fahnen, Bruder in Zechen und Gruben, Es Pfeift von Allen Dächern, Deutschland, Deutschland uber Alles, Lisa, Der Badenweiler-Marsch, Wenn Wir Marschieren, Prinz Eugen Marsch, Lore Lore, Ich Hatt Einen Kameraden.

Duration: 40mins.

containing 75 individual combat sound effects.Have you ever listened to those evocative sounds on WW-II television documentaries and wondered about their origin.....?

A Hurricane fighter with its straining Rolls Royce Merlin engine taking off from a forward strip in the Battle of Britain; the heavy fire of an armoured assault as Panzer-grenadiers, firing machine-pistols and flame-throwers in support of the Waffen-SS assaulting the forward positions; Stukas screaming down on zig-zagging convoys whilst Royal Naval gunners throw up a constant wall of anti-aircraft fire?

Flying Fortresses thundering down their runways, desperately hauling their full bomb-loads into the air and heading for the industrial heartland of Hitler's Germany; boots on cobblestones as British infantrymen fight through northern France to the crack of rifle fire and the rattle of heavy machine guns as German defenders put up a desperate defence, before being overrun by Allied tanks in support?

'Third Reich Music Favourites' - containing 16 especially selected tracks taken from our two Presentation Sets, the Military Music of Hitler's Third Reich and The Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht….. either as a single, exciting, one-off CD of Second World War German music for your collection or perhaps as a useful aid in helping you to decide which of the more expensive 6 CD Presentation Sets you might wish to buy .

'Third Reich Music Favourites' replicates the exact quality and range of music offered on our two 6-CD Presentation Collector's Sets.Contains 8 Third Reich music tracks from the Military Music series and 8 tracks, (including Heinz Goedecke's famous radio introduction), from the Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht series.

These include: The Horst Wessel Song, Erika, Lili Marleen, Westerwald, Fallschirmjagerlied, Bomben auf Engeland, Preussens Gloria, Drei Madels, Kartner Liedermarsch, Gute Nacht Mutter, Wir fahren gegen Engeland, Panzer rollen in Afrika Vor, Mein Regiment, mein Heimatland….

Duration: 50mins

A stirring collection of Marching and Korps songs from the Reichs most famous military composer and conductor.Born Hermann Nielebock on April 17th 1888 in the small German village of Brandenburg, Herms Niel left school in 1902 and served his early musical apprenticeship in the small town band of Gethin. In 1906 he joined the Kaiser’s Army as a trombonist in the band of the First Infantry Guard Regiment (1. Garderegiment zu Fuss) seeing service Sleeve for Herms Niel CDthrough the whole of World War One as a sergeant band-leader before finally being demobilised in 1919.

In the tough years immediately following the Great War, Herms Niel earned a living as a civilian band-master and composer, until the dawning of the Third Reich when he joined the Sturm Abteilung in 1934 as a troop-leader before gaining promotion to Musikmeister of the famous Reichsarbeitsdienst training establishment at Potsdam.

Becoming a Professor of Music in 1941, his prolific musical composition output was unmatched throughout World War Two and he very soon became Nazi Germany's best loved and most famous composer of military marching songs, remembered for creating many of the classic marching songs, some of which are collected together on this CD Liebling, wenn ich traurig bin - Edelweiss - Wenn die Sonne scheint, Annemarie - Rosemarie - Es geht um's Vaterland - Ruck-Zuck - Matrosenlied - Heut' stechen wir ins Blaue Meer - Gerda-Ursula-Marie - Heute muss ich scheiden - Erika - Marsch der Gebirgsjäger - Jawoll, das stimmt, jawoll! - In der Heimat steh'n auf Posten - Fallschirmjägerlied

Duration: 46mins.

An evocative collection of rare period songs from the Third Reichs Home Front.Music flourished during the Third Reich, from the very early days in 1933 to the final Fall of Berlin in 1945, but not all of it was the strident janissary marching music played by the famous military bands; artists such as Lale Andersen, Wilhelm Strienz, Mimi Thoma and Oskar Joost und sein Orchester were prolific and well-known singers and musicians performing throughout Germany in the pre-war and later war-time years of the German ‘Home Front’.

Not only did these popular artistes perform in concert and on the burgeoning German radio, but they were also the stars of the exciting new recording industry, playing on the shellac 78rpm discs for the gramophone labels such as Gloria, Odeon, Telefunken, Kristall, Gramophon, Tempo and Schallplatten Volksverband.

Duration: Vol I - 50 mins.

An evocative collection of rare period songs from the Third Reichs Home Front.Music flourished during the Third Reich, from the very early days in 1933 to the final Fall of Berlin in 1945, but not all of it was the strident janissary marching music played by the famous military bands; artists such as Lale Andersen, Wilhelm Strienz, Mimi Thoma and Oskar Joost und sein Orchester were prolific and well-known singers and musicians performing throughout Germany in the pre-war and later war-time years of the German ‘Home Front’.

Not only did these popular artistes perform in concert and on the burgeoning German radio, but they were also the stars of the exciting new recording industry, playing on the shellac 78rpm discs for the gramophone labels such as Gloria, Odeon, Telefunken, Kristall, Gramophon, Tempo and Schallplatten Volksverband.

Duration: Vol II - 48 mins.

Berlin 1945...and scrabbling through the wreckage of bombed out buildings, a young British soldier stumbles across the ravaged hulk of one of the capital's main Wehrmacht military hospitals; however unlike many of his compatriots intent on looting Nazi medals, steel helmets and flags as souvenirs of war, this young soldier was looking for more interesting booty... and he found it in the shape of a large collection of totally rare and undamaged 78 rpm shellac records buried in the doctors mess-room.

Carefully packing up his precious haul of records, performed by some of the finest Musikkorps of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS, the soldier eventually brought the collection back to England where it lay undiscovered until the early 1990s. Now this fabulous archive has been carefully restored and digitally re-mastered by British music industry engineers and released as a 6 CD Presentation boxed set.

Military Music of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich VOL I:

The 14 tracks are: Torpedo Los, Heller und Batzen, Laura, Erika, Die Soldaten, Präsentier-Marsch, Alte-Kameraden, Westerwald, Pariser Einzugs-Marsch, Bomben Auf Engeland, Der Führer Ruft, Lied der Panzer-Grenadiere, Marsch der Sturm-Artillerie, Leibstandarten-Marsch 'Adolf Hitler'.

Military Music of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich VOL II:

The 14 tracks are: Wir Fahren Gegen Engeland, Stuka Lied, Kameraden auf See, Fliegermarsch, Eine Jung Wachtposten (Lili Marleen), Lied des Afrika Korps, Fallschirmjäger Lied, Bombenfliegermarsch, Vorwärts Nach Osten, Flieg - Deutsche Fahne - Flieg, Frankreich Lied, Heut' Stechen Wir ins Blaue Meer!, Die Ganze Kompagnie, Veronika.

Military Music of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, VOL III:

CDs and other items

The 14 tracks are: Marsch der Gebirgsjäger, Parademarsch der Legion Condor, Hannelore, Die Fahne Hoche!, Unterseeboot Lied, Panzer Rollen in Afrika Vor, Bomben auf Engeland (Luftwaffe arrangement), Gegen Briten und Franzosen, Marschlied der Propaganda-Kompanien, Lufthansamarsch, Warte Mein Mädel Dort in der Heimat, Erika (Luftwaffe arrangement), Der Führer Hat Gerufen, Gute Nacht Mutter!

Military Music of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, VOL IV:

The 14 tracks are : Parademarsch der Langen Kerls, Jawohl, das Stimmt, Jawohl! Schwarzbraun ist die haselnuss, Rosmarie, Steiger-Marsch, Es Blüht ein Blumelein, Ich Geh' auf Gross Fahrt, Panzer Marsch ('Battle of the Bulge'), Marie, Das E-boot Lied, Der Tod in Flandern, Ruck-Zuck!, In Holland Steht auf Klinkerstein, Schön Blüh'n die Heckenrosen, Tschingta, Tschingta, Bummtara!

Military Music of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, VOL V:

Wermacht Singers The 14 tracks are : Pandurenmarsch, Liebling, Wenn ich Traurig Bin, Wir Sind die Alten Landser, Marsch der Deutschen in Polen, Wir Kameraden den Weissen Berge, Das Flak Lied, Bataillon Garde, Radetsky Marsch, Edith Heisst Sie!, Volk ans Gewehr, Preussens Gloria, Mein Regiment Mein Heimatland, Lied der Männer vom Westwallbau, Marie-Mara-Maruschkaka!

Military Music of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, VOL VI:

The 14 tracks are : Lied der Pioniere, Liebchen Ade!, In der Heimat Stehn auf Posten, Ein Mann Ein Wort, Als die Goldene Abendsonne, Die Kleinen Mädchen, Soldat in Polen, Fanfarenmarsch von Henrion, Schön ist Es Soldat zu Sein, Denn wir Zwei Grenadiere, Der Königgratzer Marsch, Auf Wiederseh'n Marie Madlen, Im Schützenhaus ist Blasmusik, Was Nützt mir Heute ein Schönes Mädel.

Duration: 250 minutes.

Wunschkonzert Fur Die Wehrmacht, Digitally Remastered Unique Series Of Ninety Six Tracks By The Third Reich’s Military Bands And Civilian Bands.Germany's wartime radio's 'Request Concert for the Armed Forces' programme was broadcast every Sunday, with music chosen by the troops themselves: stirring marches and sentimental ballads, comic songs and unit marching songs. From Waffen-SS grenadiers in Russia to Luftwaffe ground crews in North Africa, from Fallschirmjager on Crete to Kriegsmarine ship's company at sea - this was their programme and now this unique series, in a 6 CD Presentation set, has been digitally remastered by British sound engineers. We include, in the 6 CD Presentation set, a German transcript and an English translation of Heinz Goedecke's famous radio introduction.

16 tracks : Die Landpartie .. Narvik Lied .. Drei Mädels .. Kartner Liedermarsch .. Liebe Kommt einmal .. Helenen Marsch .. In der Krone ist Grosser .. Max und Moritz .. In Schutzenhaus ist Blasmusik .. Tante Anna .. Gerd-Ursula-Marie .. Halli Hallo .. Soldatenlieder Potpourri I ..Triumph Marsch .. Soldatenlieder Potpourri II .. Gute Nacht, Mutter.

Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht - VOL II

16 tracks : Wir Kameraden den Weissen Berg .. Einzugsmarch .. Erika .. Kreuzritter Fanfare .. Unter einem Regenschirmmam abend .. Tapfere Jungens .. Hannelore .. Es ist so schon, Soldat zu Sein .. Graf Zeppelin Marsch ... Dort wo die sieben Berge .. Pariser einzugmarsch .. Das Schonste auf der Welt .. Leb' wohl Irene! ..Bis Fruh und Funfe .. Lili Marleen (Dorit Talmadge) .. Gute Nacht, Mutter

Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht - VOL III

16 tracks : Glocken der Heimat .. Das ist Berlin! .. Wenn das Schifferklavier .. Stadion Marsch .. Der grune Jagersmann .. Treue Kameradenschaft .. Kleine Madchen .. Schon ist's bei den Soldaten .. Fruhlings einsugmarsch .. Der Junge an der Reeling .. Kaiser Friedrich Marsch .. Ein jedes Madel liebt das Militar .. Erika (Bernard Ette) .. Im Kahlenberger Dorfel .. Antje mein blondes kind ..Gute Nacht, Mutter

Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht - VOL IV

Soldiers listening to a radio16 tracks : Per Aspera as Astra .. Liebes Madel.. Tanzenende Mullergesellen .. Tirol, Tirol ..Marsch der Elizabether .. Einmal am Rhein .. Geffalt dir meine grune Tracht? .. Das Kann doch einen Seeman .. Zum Stadtle Hinaus .. Erika (Herms Niel) .. Der Kreuzfideler Kuperschmied .. Heimat deine Sterne .. Elfer Marsch .. Weine nicht, Mutterlein .. Mollendorf-Parademarsch No. 1 .. Gute Nacht, Mutter

Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht - VOL V

CD Presentation Set and other items16 tracks :Was nutz mir heute .. Im treue Fest .. Komm mit nach Madeira .. W.W.W. Marsch .. Voorwaarts Stormsoldaat (NSB) .. Unter den roten Laterne .. Daar Ging er een Scheepje (NSB) .. Lili Marleen (Heyn-Quartet) .. Hoch Heidecksburg .. Soldat in Polen .. Argonner Marsch .. Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss .. Folies Bergere Marsch .. Lebe wohl, du kleine Monika .. Tiroler Holzhacker-Buab'n .. Gute Nacht, Mutter

Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht - VOL VI

16 tracks : Nur auf die Minute .. Regimentskinder .. Tapfere Klein Soldatenfrau .. Skilauferlied .. Siegfried Linie .. Skilauferlied .. Bayerischer Avanciermarsch .. Wovon kann der Landser .. Jawoll, das stimmt, Jawoll! .. Laterna Magica Marsch .. Das Lieserl vom Bayrischen wald .. Es leuchten die Sterne .. Fehrbelliner Reitermarsch .. Erika (Adalbert Lutter) .. Die kleine Stadt .. Tirol, mein Heimatland .. Gute Nacht, Mutter

Duration: 300 mins.

The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Nazis during World War and using the only German newsreel footage shot during the occupation, and listening to those islanders who survived, this most remarkable story is told in 'Channel Islands Occupied', a highly acclaimed television documentary produced by Brian Matthews and Tomahawk Films.

Massive German fortifications effectively turned the British Channel Islands into 'Hitler's Anchored Battleships'. Now unique wartime footage shows us 'then' while Colin Partridge, author of the book 'Mirus - The making of a Battery', shows 'now' as we visit the immaculately preserved German bunkers, gun emplacements, underground hospitals and munitions tunnels. All of these were built by Russian slave labourers, A German fortification on Jerseyso making the Channel Islands the most heavily fortified part of Hitler's 'Festung Europa'. You will experience poignant, moving and sometimes humorous stories as Islanders recall their own very personal memories of over 50 years ago and we ask : Could this have been Britian if Hitler had won?

Rare combat newreels of German troops in action and the Waffen-SS on parade in Paris, contasts with the stunning film of a British 'bobby' chauffeuring the German Kommandant, and the incredible sight of a German infantry unit in full parade uniform marching up an English high street, in rehearsal for Hitler's planned invasion of the British mainland.Witness the remains of the only SS-run Nazi concentration camp on British soil and tour Guernsey's authentic German Occupation Museum to view Richard Heaume's superb and rare collection of uniforms, weapons, medals, daggers and artefacts left behind when the German garrison surrendered in May 1945, after 5 long years of occupation.

"I must write to congratulate you on a very neat production, first class and much more honest and factual than some of the rubbish we've had to endure on television lately....."

W M Ginns MBE, Hon Secretary, The Jersey Occupation Society.

This DVD also offers a 40 minute bonus-film: "Stars on the Landscape". Produced by David Williams, (and narrated by Tomahawk's Brian Matthews), with the assistance of Jersey's German Occupation Society, this is a terrific 'behind the scenes' look at some of the finest German Fortifications of Hitler's Atlantic Wall, all sympathetically restored by Jersey volunteers - a cracking film!!

World Play (all regions) DVD. Duration: 90 mins.

In 1945 a British Intelligence Officer in Hanover stumbled across Ukranian troops ransacking the Gestapo Headquarters and throwing cine projectors from an upstairs window!! Bursting into the building he charged upstairs and seeing piles of film cans stacked in a blazing room, grabbed 16 of them and retreated in his jeep.

The cans resurfaced in 1988 and Tomahawk Films aquired all of the 16 cans and began the task of restoring these superbly detailed combat newsreels, most of which have never been seen in public before. Orginally found with German subtitles only and destined to be shown in wartime German cinemas as Die Wochenschau (Weekly Newsreels), producer Brian Matthews created four different titles each with its own faithfully recreated wartime music and sound effects track.

Russian Front Volume 1 : The all-out action begins as Wehrmacht cameramen cover the combat assault teams across the Dneiper River, taking Minsk, Articles and VideosStalingrad and Rostov. Close quarter action intercuts with spectacular footage in the cockpits of Me-110's and He-111's battling high above the Russian steppes.

Russian Front Volume 2 : The intense and bloody combat photography continues in the heat of battle as the German infantry storm Kharkov and Kersch with flame throwers and heavy M.G.'s A fascinating record of the siege of Sevastapol with an incredible sequence on heavy artillery, including the massive Wehrmacht railway guns.

Air Land and Sea : A Kriegsmarine Honour Guard introduces the Scharnhorst, Prinz Eugen and Gneisenau's Channel dash under R.A.F. attack. Rare Dieppe newsreel and the Waffen-SS in Finland leads into 'Murmansk to Africa' a lightning overview of the war and ends with superb Lufwaffe action in 'Air War in the East'

Afrika Korps : Desert combat footage from the war in North Africa includes Ju-88's in action, Italian assault troops, German troops under canvas and Rommel and the fall of Tobruk. Luftwaffe footage of the air attack on Malta and includes ground crews 'bombing-up' and close ups of Kesselring and fighter ace Marseille.

World Play (all regions) DVD. Duration: 90 mins.

The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Nazis during World War and using the only German newsreel footage shot during the occupation, and listening to those islanders who survived, this most remarkable story is told in 'Channel Islands Occupied', a highly acclaimed television documentary produced by Brian Matthews and Tomahawk Films.

Massive German fortifications effectively turned the British Channel Islands into 'Hitler's Anchored Battleships'. Now unique wartime footage shows us 'then' while Colin Partridge, author of the book 'Mirus - The making of a Battery', shows 'now' as we visit the immaculately preserved German bunkers, gun emplacements, underground hospitals and munitions tunnels. All of these were built by Russian slave labourers, A German fortification on Jerseyso making the Channel Islands the most heavily fortified part of Hitler's 'Festung Europa'. You will experience poignant, moving and sometimes humorous stories as Islanders recall their own very personal memories of over 50 years ago and we ask : Could this have been Britian if Hitler had won?

Rare combat newreels of German troops in action and the Waffen-SS on parade in Paris, contasts with the stunning film of a British 'bobby' chauffeuring the German Kommandant, and the incredible sight of a German infantry unit in full parade uniform marching up an English high street, in rehearsal for Hitler's planned invasion of the British mainland.Witness the remains of the only SS-run Nazi concentration camp on British soil and tour Guernsey's authentic German Occupation Museum to view Richard Heaume's superb and rare collection of uniforms, weapons, medals, daggers and artefacts left behind when the German garrison surrendered in May 1945, after 5 long years of occupation.

"I must write to congratulate you on a very neat production, first class and much more honest and factual than some of the rubbish we've had to endure on television lately....."

W M Ginns MBE, Hon Secretary, The Jersey Occupation Society.

Duration: 50 mins.

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reprint of wartime poster 11.5 cm x 16.5 cm

reprint of wartime poster 42cm x 60 cm

reprint of wartime poster.42cm x 60cm