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The Reich Chamber of Film (Reichsfilmkammer, abbreviated as RFK) was a government agency which operated as a statutory corporation controlled by the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda that regulated the film industry in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945.
The Reich Chamber of Film (RFK) was one of the key implements of control for National-Socialist film policy. It was established in July 1933, only a few months after the Nazis took power, by means of a "Law for the Establishment of a Provisional Chamber of Film": one of the new government's first important institutions.
With the establishment of Department V (Film), the Propaganda Ministry became the most important body for the German film industry alongside the Reich Chamber of Culture and the Reich Film Chamber. Initially little changed in the formal structure of German film censorship after the founding of the RMVP.
Oversight of radio, film, newsreels, theater, and music fell directly to the Propaganda Ministry, which used a combination of these media to sell Nazi ideology. Author (s): United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.
Beginning in September 1933, a Reich Culture Chamber (composed of the Reich Film Chamber, Reich Music Chamber, Reich Theater Chamber, Reich Press Chamber, Reich Writing Chamber, Reich Chamber for Fine Arts, and the Reich Radio Chamber) supervised and regulated all facets of German culture.
After Adolf Hitler became Chancellor (in 1933), Joseph Goebbels—Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda— moved swiftly to take control of the German film industry.4 That same year, Goebbels set up the Reich Chamber of Film as the agency for purging the film industry of “undesirables” and guiding the production of “useful” movies.
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After it was decreed on June 28, 1933 that everyone "involved in the production of a German film … be of German descent and hold German citizenship," the Reich Chamber of Film would invoke the "reliability clause" to further the so-called Aryanization of German film.
