This paper aims to present an overview of how German filmmakers have approached the subject of "Vergangenheitsbewaltigung," that is the coming to terms with the Third Reich, in film and how this has evolved over the decades since the end of the war. The first chapter will consult the first German film to be made after the war: Wolfgang Staudte's 1946 film "Die Morder sind unter uns" (released as "The murderers are among us" in the UK). The second chapter will look at Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1981 work "Lili Marleen" (released under the same name) as an example from the end of the New German...