Here Is Germany (1945)

★★★★★ · Here is why this film is'nt entirely considered propaganda · Art1122 · 2014-08-06

To any one who would consider this film a piece of propaganda, I would respectfully ask you to read about, The Wöbbelin concentration/death camp, near the city of Ludwigslust Germany.

★★★★ · oops, forgot one little thing... · robcat2075 · 2007-10-11

How amazing that a film intending to detail every crime of the Germans can't bring itself to mention the persecution of the jews. The German crimes against the Italians get more mention(!). I suppose this reflects the prevailing anti-semitism in America at that time. A lot of Americans watching this film probably wouldn't have thought persectuing jews was such a bad idea. Still, it's an effective film and gives you a brief, Cliff Notes history of German militarism.

★★★★ · Why it wasn't mentioned that the victims were Jews · GCarty · 2007-12-21

Genocide of Jews was unique to Nazism, while this film is a more general attack on German militarism in all its forms: "You faced the 'Nazi' menace, your father's generation was threatened by the 'Huns', while in your grandfather's time there were the 'Prussians'. The Nazis, the Huns, the Prussians. Three different names for three generations of Germans, each trying to impose their will on others by force." Before Nazism, the most antisemitic country in Europe was Russia.

★★★★ · Cool Movie--When Viewed In Context · MarkvW · 2009-12-31

This movie would do a good job of making a high-school-age American enlisted man (who hadn't seen combat) very suspicious of the postwar Germans. That naive kid would have every reason to be suspicious. Germany was dirt poor immediately postwar--and the young GI would be quite the target for exploitation. But after that young kid meets that special German girl . . .. Oh, it's all over then.

★★★ · Take the time for a little history! · jmc9595 · 2009-01-19

Most of the reviewers have either not viewed this film or have no idea what it was. It was propaganda "with that word used in a neutral sense." It was also wartime (not post war) propaganda, by the noted Frank Capra, who did other such films, e.g. "Why We Fight." "Wartime" means it was done before the end of the war. Most of the film would be documentary footage, some of it by Germans or their allies. There was very little getting Americans riled over Japan after Pearl Harbor. American soldiers were not overly motivated to kill Germans, get invovled in a European War. Many had German roots.…

★★★ · here is germany · pusherwoman · 2009-06-17

this is a nice download for a not-so-nice movie. sure, nazis weren't nice people, but it doesn't mean that just because most germans whose family members were nazis they are instinctively evil. i mean, there were the red faction army in the 70s and 80s, but did they create a major war after world war 2? no. nowadays, it seems that many ex-nazis are sorry for what they believed and their younger relatives are studying their dark past. another thing, it is obvious that the american army at that time were twisting german history-- in an unflattering way. i've noticed that some of its…