Conflict With Goebbels
Goebbels could usually count on his young people. Nevertheless, he frequently criticized their shortcomings. As early as 1939, he recorded in his diaries that Hippler was intelligent but cheeky and totally contradictory. He also stated that Hippler was immature. Goebbels complained repeatedly about the disorganization of the film department. Hippler suffered apparently of alcohol addiction. Goebbels finally discharged Hippler in June 1943 because of his alcohol addiction. Hippler enter an appearance in his memoirs that he had been dismissed when it became known, was that the ostracized from the National Socialists' Erich Kaestner, "the screenplay for the film Münchhausen wrote, emerged as an apologetic statement. After his dismissal, Hippler and the SS ranking again disallowed because they accused him of having denied that a great-grandmother was of Jewish descent.
In March 1943, Goebbels discharged Hippler as Reichsfilmsuperintendant after differences of opinion. (Rentschler Eric.1998. Ministry of Illusion p 266). Hippler was sent to an infantry replacement battalion of the country, according to Strauss and underwent a mountain infantry training. Then he was again released from duty on the gun and used until February 1945 as a front camera man in order to produce material for newsreels. On 3 May 1945, he flew into Hamburg in British prisoner of war.
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