"Yes, I am Anna Moffett, the second casting assistant on the set of "National Glory: The Battle"." A female voice was both friendly and unfamiliar in the receiver: "Our staff (scouts) in the Adron Hotel are unforgettable to you. So I took the liberty to ask about the room number you booked, and this phone call came up."

"Ah... it's you." The elongated tone of the never-dead "France Rose" did not mean to let go: "Although it's presumptuous to say that. But considering the current situation, especially the crushing defeat of the Battle of Stalingrad and the difficult battle of Sicily, why did the Empire spend huge sums of money to shoot a useless movie at such a difficult time?"

In fact, after the defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany stopped offensive on the Eastern Front; the Western Front became increasingly unscrupulous. As air supremacy gradually lost, Allied bomber formations began to appear frequently over German cities, and many major cities in the Third Reich were successively bombed into flames. In order to boost morale, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels really spent a huge amount of money to shoot an epic blockbuster known as the "last feast" of the German film industry in World War II: "Kolberg".

Therefore, this battle took place at the end of the Fourth Anti-French Alliance War. It was praised by the Germans for generations, led by the famous general Gneisenno, to defend the lonely city and fight against the siege of Korberg, the emperor of the First Empire of France, and was re-extracted by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Based on the existing stage play "Korberg", it was adapted into the script of the movie "Korberg" as quickly as possible.

Ironically, the adaptation of the stage play "Korberg" which the Nazis spent a lot of money to shoot was written by Paul Heize, a Nobel Prize winner in literature and a German Jewish writer.

The Nazis really invested a lot in order to make this movie well. You should know that the price of color film was very expensive at that time. Many color photos of World War II seen in later generations were actually colored after the war. In order to make this movie well, Goebbels specifically contacted the German IKHF Company and made color films for this movie, in order to vividly display the "glorious moments of the German nation."

Goebbels gave the green light to "Korberg". In order to create the most realistic war scene, the German Propaganda Department helped the film production team find 180,000 extras to participate in the film, creating a world record of "the most extras". Each person can get a salary of 5 imperial marks every day, which is higher than a worker's daily salary.

There are also the 19th-century costumes prepared for the extras, and the expense alone becomes astronomical. After all, it is a war blockbuster, so military crowd shows are of course indispensable. Among these 180,000 extras, there are 50,000 active German officers and soldiers, equivalent to the strength of 3 or 4 divisions.

You should know that at this time, the German army, which had enemies on all sides, were in danger, and the front-line commanders wanted to break up a division into several for use. The officers and soldiers who returned to China for vacation were also shortened as much as possible so that they could return to the front line as soon as possible. The situation was so critical that Goebbels ordered the soldiers on vacation to report to the filming location, put on the heavy military uniforms of the 19th century to endure the double torture of spiritual and physical torture, which shows how much Nazi attaches importance to this movie.

Like "National Glory: The Battle", the movie's picture should be as realistic as possible, so the real guys used to shoot explosion scenes, and two extras were killed for this. It's really a filming experience with their lives.

There are many winter scenes in the Siege of Korberg. The filming happened to be in the summer of 1944. There was no artificial snow scene at that time, so the winter scene could not be postponed in order to catch up. Although the Allied air strikes had largely paralyzed the railway line of the Third Reich and the supply of domestic supplies was becoming increasingly tight. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels actually ordered the railway system to mobilize more than 100 carats of salt and sprinkle it on the ground as snow, allowing people to trample on it.

In this way, the epic film of the Third Reich was finally completed in October 1944. The entire film cost as much as 8.8 million Empire Marks, which is equivalent to more than 300 million US dollars in later generations. Even at that time, more than 400 Leopard tanks or a dora cannon could be bought. At this time, the Soviet army on the Eastern Front had already attacked Poland, and the Western Front Allies also advanced in France, while Nazi Germany used a large number of shortage resources to make movies.

It is not difficult to imagine. Many people's reaction to "Korberg" is just as unrealized as the "France Rose" that never fades to "National Glory: The Battle".

But in the eyes of the Nazi senior officials, publicity work is the top priority. Even if the movie costs a lot, as long as it can boost people's hearts and boost morale, it is worth it.

When the post-production of "Korberg" is completed and ready for release, the time has quietly arrived in January 1945. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels set the premiere date on January 30. This day is the 12th anniversary of the Nazi seizure of power.

But at this time, the entire Berlin had been blown into ruins by the Allied airstrikes, and there was no cinema. So Goebbels could only change a subway station in Berlin into a movie screening hall, and asked the head of state to hold a premiere ceremony. The Nazi propaganda agency was eager to release this exciting "inspirational movie" in various parts of Germany, so the ticket price was very cheap, with only 0.7 Empire Mark, and almost invited people to watch movies.

But at that time, most German cities were bombed into huge garbage dumps like Berlin, and there was no complete cinema in the city. The German people hiding in the air-raid shelters could only spend one day, and they were in the mood to risk their lives to watch a movie in the open air? In desperation, the Nazi propaganda agencies turned to a very embarrassing method to do publicity and distribution, that is, to print publicity posters. Organizations at all levels started to do their best and printed a large number of posters of "Korberg" movies in a short period of time, and sent these posters to every corner of Germany to "inspire the people to continue to stick to their territory."

In addition, the German army also sent few military aircraft to airdrop the film's posters and film copies to the remaining German troops in the Allied encirclement, trying to "inspire their enthusiasm for resistance." It is impossible to verify whether these film copies were screened in the encirclement. However, this scene lasted for more than a month. In late March 1945, the film was forced to be removed from the line because the city of Korberg had been occupied by the Soviet army. In this way, this last film work of Nazi Germany invested huge amounts of money and occupied huge national resources, and was withdrawn after only less than two months of release.

Nazi Germany collapsed more than a month later.

As the saying goes, "A book cannot be made without coincidence." This is also one of the most amazing things about "National Glory: The Great Battle". Simply put, from the historical process of World War II, even if there is no "unlimited funding" "National Glory: The Great Battle", there will be "Korberg" that "does no effort".

This is also the main plot of "The World War II plot fragments are similar and fusion of time and space" in "The Great Battle" itself, with convincing historical coordinates and completely reasonable plot scripts.
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