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THE NAZI 1943 MOVIE OF THE TITANIC

Context:
The Titanic was conceived like much anti-British German propaganda of the Nazi period. It was designed to reinforce existing German prejudice that the British were ruled by a wicked and greedy upper class.

The Nazi Titanic followed a similar theme found in was Soldaten von Morgen or Soldiers of Tomorrow (1941), which reinforced the German stereotypes of the English upper class as decadent. That film was a comedy showing bad school English school boys at upper class schools growing into Britain’s wartime leaders.

Director of the Titanic
Herbert Selpin was the director of the film. He had made several good quality German films in the 1930s.

Selpin got into trouble with Goebbels because his unfavourable remarks on the set about the extras from the German armed forces.

He was asked to apologise for his remarks about the German armed forces before Goebbels, Selpin refused and was later straggled by the SS in a prison cell. The film was completed by another director, Werner Klinger.


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http://www.hsse.nie.edu.sg/staff/blackburn/Nazititanic.html