Die Nibelungen was among Adolf Hitler's favorite films and Heinrich Hoffmann stated that he watched it with Hitler at least twenty times. Joseph Goebbels initially criticized the film in 1924 as a "typically Jewish concoction" although "the Jew knows how to direct", but later praised it as "the pinnacle of German achievement" by 1929. Hitler and Goebbels considered making a new film adaption with sound or adding sound to the Lang film, but nothing came from either idea.