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i hope there is gonna be a WW3!


sieg heil

If it happens, Excpect warm greetings from Moscow

Slavsya Otechestvo!!!!!!!!

i really hope it!

COOL!

I'd seen a degraded version on another website. It started at 0:57, so I had to guess if it was made for military personnel or general release.

It's an interesting & very sophisticated bit of propaganda. Nothing blatantly false, but certainly constructed to fit an ideological narrative (the history lesson begins with Frederick, conveniently leaving out previous centuries of oppression against the German states, forcing them to rise up beligerently. Also leaves out Versailles Treaty).

...which is not to imply that Germany can be absolved of her actions in Europe or within her own borders!

But honesty demands we acknowledge that:

1 continental European nations in general had been consumed with the "lust for conquest" ever since the fall of Rome, with anyone powerful enough marching upon her neighbors at every opportunity & the weak ones banding together for protection.

2 Hitler never, ever was sanctioned by the majority. That's why the Nazis burned the Reichstag.

Correction! Versailles Treaty is covered later in the film - though in the most self-serving manner!

The film entirely ignores the sections of the Treaty that pauperized Germany and thus directly contributed to the rise of the Nazis

Nice propaganda tactic there Capra. Paint a beautiful,romantic picture and then obliterate it with death and destruction.I'm sure by the late 1960's most of the soldiers who were subjected to this piece of hate-film,were infact themselves disgusted with the way their own society had turned out. My Salute to the greatest generation German, American, English,French and Italian.Its not your faults your children were so soon to lose faith.

This film was from 1945, before the Cold War really got going. Distinguishing "Nazis" from "Germans" was a later propaganda line, when the West needed the West Germans as part of the anti-Communist coalition.

After the war, the Germans sucked up to Uncle Sam, so as not to be abandoned to the nonexistent mercy of Uncle Joe.

It was made by Frank Capra, and used the same narrators as the "Why We Fight" films, but it wasn't part of the "Why We Fight" series itself.