UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Michael_Elliott 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.

drystyx 1945, and the Allies won the war. There really was no need to justify it. Even then, most people in Allied countries were patriotic.So a propaganda film served little purpose. Here, Capra tries to demonetize every German instead of the Nazis in charge. Farmers and workers in Germany had no choice, and they couldn't help anyone but themselves, or they would starve. Yet Capra in one minute will say the common German was brutal and purposely aggressive, yet in the next minute admit the common German was being used.He stresses the importance of bullying the common German. That would have made room for another Hitler to use these common Germans again. Capra is full of too many lies to forgive here. He simply doesn't place the blame where it belongs. And in doing so, he makes these common Germans susceptible to the very patriotism and liberty he claims they didn't want, and then claims they did. His hypocrisy is overwhelming.If enough common Germans in 1945 were to see this and have it translated to them, they would have turned into the very sort of freedom fighting guerrillas that armies are terrorized by. Not only poor content, but poor propaganda.

parsifalssister Now 65 years old, this documentary (by Frank Capra) is a combination of history and propaganda--where the line ends or begins is beyond my limited knowledge. However, it was fascinating to watch and piece together where Germany was in 1945 and where it is today. Particularly educational were some of the words used by 3 generations of German leadership all favoring strong nationalism and expansionism whilst extolling German superiority. Two weaknesses or strengths, depending on the viewers' point of view, is no mention of the atrocities of World War II and no comparisons between Germany and other expansionist countries (including the USA). I recommend it as a piece of the past, but not to be taken on faith as either accurate or prize worthy as it paints Germany in too harsh a light.

suchenwi I am surprised that I am the first to comment on this... very gripping film, which seems to be very little documented - not even the director is recorded at IMDb. (I had a feeling it was Frank Capra, but Wikipedia doesn't list this in his filmography.) "Here is Germany" is an American propaganda, or shall we say instructional film which discusses the question why Germans, otherwise having quite some humanist and cultural traditions, could have been so beastly in WWII. To answer that, it reaches quite far back to late 18th century and contrasts revolutionary US and France, as well as Great Britain with its Magna Carta, to the late-feudalistic puzzle of mostly small states in Germany. Focus on Prussia and its mostly victorious wars, then the German-French war of 1870/71, then WWI, then WWII, and drawing continuity lines in the process.The target audience would have been Allied soldiers preparing for the occupation of Germany, and it indeed gives a profound history lesson. Being a German myself, I was aware of most of the facts presented, but the mostly plausible context in which they were put amazed me and gave me good food for thought, especially the sabotaging of the short-lived Weimar republic 1918-33.