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*WARNING* Contains some graphic footage.
Here is Germany was made to prepare soldiers who had not seen combat to go to Germany for the US occupation after the May 8, 1945 unconditional surrender. The film was, however, never used for its intended purpose.

Here is Germany was a 1945 propaganda documentary film directed by Frank Capra. Like its companion film, Know Your Enemy: Japan, the film is a full-length exploration of why one of the two major Axis countries started World War II and what had to be done to keep them from "doing it again".

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[slowstrummer]

Yeah right asshole, only the Nazi's were the bad people, not us, not the British Empire. We never did any wrong in the world. We are the good people of the earth.  We never killed Indians in America, or raped the land, or killed slaves, or invaded other countries (the list is so long it would take a whole page to write them out. Nazi's are scum and so are we.

[Tebok73509]

Ya.. oh.. wait... Germany did the same thing to England, day and night. If your going to try to make the Allies look like the bad guys, PLEASE do a better job. You are making yourself sound like a fucking idiot.

[mark24875218]

30million men had to die !! and for what ? Its funny as Germany is strong once again, stronger than ever, and i think its great !!!

[darthgrahf]

Little did the world know, Hitler had to deal with the original troll: Hermann Fegelein.

[darthgrahf]

@slowstrummer No country has its hands clean. Not even the pacifist Scandinavian ones are completely blood free.

[Kasadoll]

actually the whole "nazi propaganda in everything thing" is completely untrue.Gobbels even knew that people needed a break from it from time to time, and often used humor as a distraction

[terfle1106]

Testosterone Land... Duh !!

[Damynine]

"THE LOVE OF AGRESSION AND CONQUEST" is common for too many countries of the world. (which the author is not mentioning) Germany is one of many... as agression is a part of human nature, a product of ambision, desire to domine etc.

[Pisces31660]

both sides have propoganda. americans never marche into berlin. soviets did. americans took the western front. americans only wished they had taken berlin. very misleading that part was.

[scrutograph]

@EdwardRommel Indeed, the persecution of the Jews violated the freedom of religion, as well. It´s a noble undertaking to fight for it. Showing destroyed Christian churches gave an even better impression of the violation of this right. ;-) After all the movie was seen as inappropiate, maybe because of scenes like "burning churches"?

[EdwardRommel]

@scrutograph

The reason the film doesn't mention the holocaust is because they were still investigating that in 1945 and many people were denying that it had happened.

If you recall there was anti-German horror propaganda in WW1 about the German army making soap out of dead German soldiers...when the truth was Germany was making soap out of dead horses.

I think Capra wanted to stay away from the more shocking details of the holocaust although he does talk about "gas chambers"