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.
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.