Postwar Germany: 28 Months After V-E Day (1947)

★★★★★ · An un-polished amateur film · Steve Nordby · 2004-03-10

Towards the end of part one, and continued in the rest, you see what the aftermath of a real war, not some Hollywood movie or some terrorist attack: Building after building, street after street, city after city of rubble. People, years after the end of the war, digging in the ruins, and barefoot children in food ration lines. Eventually we get to some shots of a trip up the Rhine to the ruins of earlier mini-empires (castles) and some factories and the Munich beer gardens, but that is a let down. It is the documentation of the debris, of the utter destruction of cities - of civilian…

★★★★★ · History so Important · marycaruso · 2016-04-09

It's so important for younger Americans to understand what WW2 was about, and what was required to defeat Nazism. I worry that in our present mindset, we cannot win the war on terror. My parents emmigrated to America just before Hitler took power, their families knew they needed to get out if they could. They came from small villages near Frankfurt, and I always wondered how the remaining family members survived all they had to endure. They lost two sons who were fighting in the German army, one in a Russian prison camp. So this war remains in our minds. I hope our young people will benefit…

★★★★ · Meanwhile in Germany.. · Spuzz · 2004-03-05

Although this film says it's prime focus in the INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION (caps emphasized) the filmmakers can't seem to get away from taking footage of Beer Gardens where Hitler started his career. Although this film is fascinating to watch as this provided invaluable footage of Germany post-war, and there's incredible color footage here. I was somewhat dissapointed with the fact that the filmmakers seemed to be captivated with the rubble of Germany and not what they were supposedly sent there for (tracking steel production). But STILL! Great footage! lol Oh, and this is all silent footage, I…

Limitations in the film · JJCh · 2013-07-01

Copied from the film: “This film covers close-up observations inside Post-War Germany as they existed in September, 1947. “Our objective was to report on German Industrial Production and manpower Problems and to determine the factors deterring maximum production.” ============================================== The above seems in complete ignorance of the following background from Wikipedia: (Note: The below-mentioned pastoral plan was Morgenthau’s) “Others have argued that credit should be given to former US President Herbert Hoover who in one of his reports from Germany in 1947 argued for a…

Uncle Adolf · <internet_crawler> · 2026-02-01

Oh how he was right. The architecture of Germany has never been the same, the culture punished, their economy still controlled, the EU full of jewish rats, etc…