Here Is Germany (1945)
*** (out of 4)
Anthony Veiller narrates this entry into Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series. This film takes a look at Germany and tries to explain how they became what they did. We start off with a "cute" scene of the narrator explaining the great things about Germany but the tone quickly changes when we see the horrors from WWII including hundreds of dead bodies as well as the furnaces where so many were killed.
HERE IS GERMANY is one of the better films in the series as there's actually very little propaganda and instead it shows the horrors of the war. This series was good for the most part but there's no question that some of the comments were meant to produce anger or fear. There's nothing here that goes for fear but instead it shows what horrors Germany was actually committing in case there was someone watching who might not have realized why America was at war.
There's some great discussions about WWI as well as the then current situation and how going into the future America was going to be in charge of Germany, their school books and making sure that the events that happened would never happen again.
*** (out of 4)
Anthony Veiller narrates this entry into Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series. This film takes a look at Germany and tries to explain how they became what they did. We start off with a "cute" scene of the narrator explaining the great things about Germany but the tone quickly changes when we see the horrors from WWII including hundreds of dead bodies as well as the furnaces where so many were killed.
HERE IS GERMANY is one of the better films in the series as there's actually very little propaganda and instead it shows the horrors of the war. This series was good for the most part but there's no question that some of the comments were meant to produce anger or fear. There's nothing here that goes for fear but instead it shows what horrors Germany was actually committing in case there was someone watching who might not have realized why America was at war.
There's some great discussions about WWI as well as the then current situation and how going into the future America was going to be in charge of Germany, their school books and making sure that the events that happened would never happen again.