Jeremy Butler asks: >Are there any laws or university policies in Germany that would restrict >the showing of pro-Nazi or Neonazi films? If they are permissible in >classroom screenings, are they also permissible in, say, a film society's >screenings or in a public cinema? If anyone's interested, the exhibition of Nazi films in modern Germany is discussed at some length by Eric Rentschler in 'The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and its Afterlife' (Harvard U.P., 1996). Can't remember what the legal position is exactly (the book is in a cardboard box in my parents' attic, so I can't get at it here and now), but R argues that Nazi entertainment films without an immediately apparent propaganda objective (that being defined as one which a lay viewer could not readily decipher without a certain level of historical background) are regularly shown in modern Germany without most viewers associating them with Nazism. L ------------------------------------ Leo Enticknap Technical Manager City Screen Cinemas (York) Ltd.. 13-17 Coney St., York YO1 9QL. United Kingdom Telephone: 01904 612940 (work); 07710 417383 (brainfryer) e-mail: [log in to unmask] (work); [log in to unmask] (home) www.picturehouse-cinemas.co.uk ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]