Ewiger Wald is a 1936 German film directed by Hanns Springer and Rolf von Sonjevski-Jamrowski.
Intended as cinematic proof for the shared destiny of the German woods and the German people beyond the vicissitudes of history, it portrayed a perfect symbiosis of an eternal forest and a likewise eternal people firmly rooted in it between Neolithic and National Socialist times.
In accordance with Rosenberg's anti-Christian beliefs, the first section on prehistory displays various customs and rituals of an asserted pagan forest religion like a maypole dance or funerals in treetrunk coffins.
Further, it depicts the forest sheltering ancient Germanic tribes, Arminius, and the Teutonic Knights, facing the German Peasants' War, being chopped up by war and industry, and being humiliated by black soldiers brought into Germany by the French occupation army.
[1] Ewiger Wald was produced by the Culture Group[2] and co-directed by Hanns Springer and Rolf von Sonjevski-Jamrowski.