This is a more interesting video than I expected. It is easy to loose democracy when people are prepared to give up their human rights for a better economy.
It's fascinating and mindboggling that seven years from when this documentary takes place, almost everything will be at its worst completely disintegrated or at its best, gutted.
Hitler left his country in flames and rubble, a prize of spoil to the victorious Allies. He spared himself the ignominy of capture and trial and execution by committing suicide, leaving behind the corpses of his people, and the demoralized and leaderless survivors . And yet, even now with the benefit of history to show us what he was. He is worshiped as though he were a god by delusional traitors and would be supermen. It is inexplicable. A kind of madnes. And yet we see that same madness all around and growing.
For a second I thought you meant that within seven years of this video being put on the internet Trump will be re-elected President and will go full bore Fascism and revenge against people he doesn't like and will destroy any semblance of democracy or a real justice system and tear down all other American institutions that keep the country running with order and some degree of justice and logic and will let the far right militias wreak havoc on the land and will possibly incite a civil war.
I believe this was one of the first overtly anti-nazis films made for an American audience. There had been a strong fascist movement in America and media mostly admired Nazis policies of recovery from the depression. Watch Ken Burns ‘America and the Holocaust’ it’s really insightful and compelling.
Remarkable account the likes of which I have never seen. Intimate view of the German citizen culture very revealing and in ways prophetic. This film is a unique presentation of 1938 Germany
Such a shame that less than 20k people have seen this important historical document meanwhile videos without any contribution to human race have thousands of million views
@diegostime9634 this is an important historical document. However we're in no position to judge what has the interest of other people. And what they watch. And it shouldn't be a concern to anyone. None of us is the gauge by which other people measure their lives.
@@bloss031ng Propaganda confined to a few slogans, repeated until everyone understands. as in: Wear your masks and get the shot for the .good of humanity.
It was definitely predictable, but how was it preventable? England and France and Russia tried placating Hitler, how did that work out for them? Unless every country was willing to let the Nazis just walk in and take over, war was inevitable.
This is the year my father decided it was time for him to leave there. . He went to Mexico at first it seems. and met my mother there. Then got married in Gualatamala in 1944 I showed up in San Antonio Texas in 1948 !
Many American men fled across the border to Mexico, thus avoiding having to serve in the American armed forces; unable to return when the war ended, the majority of those who fled made new lives for themselves in Mexico, never to return to their homeland.
Never again will we see a bunch of guys sitting around the park in suits playing cards. Not even wearing suits, just out and about playing cards. The good old days before phone's when people actually socialised with one another.
I had always been told that the News On The March newsreel in Citizen Kane was a parody of The March Of Time and now I can see what they meant. The voice of the narrator here is the same voice William Alland used in the Kane newsreel. Listen to this and then listen to "America's Kubla Khan" and "An Empire upon an Empire!'"
Actually I think the voice we hear in this is that of Westbrook van Voorhis (who, despite his German-sounding name, was all-American). He did masses of voiceover work in the US from the 1930s through to the 1960s, and is best known for the March Of Time films. William Alland did a very good impersonation of the voice in Citizen Kane.
I would argue that the News on the March segment in the movie is not necessarily a parody, but an honest attempt by the newsmen in the later scene to show the story of Kane in a recognizable format. The only halfway amusing moment is where Kane accidentally drops concrete on himself. But the format is spot-on for the time.
I used to have this large book called “Chums” which was a boys book. Might have been a compilation of a weekly or monthly magazine bound in an annual book form. My edition was the 1935 edition and it had a section on the Hitler Youth reported positively as if it was a German Scout equivalent.
This is GOLD!!!! Should be conserved by every Truth Loving Family in the World and shown to children frequently. I shall Archive this AND share widely!!!! Thank you for posting!!!
The WWII generation built the welfare state, enacted civil rights, and created a UN that promoted universal human rights. You're right that they would be astonished... to see so many Americans were ready to repeat the mistakes of the past. Don't be a sucker.
most of the democracies today are a sham - in the UK you have the Labour & Tories - same policies different personalities, in the USA the Republicans & Democrats, again same policies different personalities - just a sham to fool the masses into believing they have a say
Does anyone know whether this film is in the public domain? I’m researching it, have learned that it’s in the National Film Registry, but can’t figure out more about it’s availability or status. For now, at least, it’s back on RU-vid.
@@josephhilditch5086 Mr Joseph Hilditch: What, in in your view, is deficient in the picture presented by this newsreel? I for my part would say that the relevant facts are accurately marshaled and that there are no significant omissions. I even draw consolation from the thought that Time-Life journalists in the USA of 1938 could see the Reich for what it was, without the 21st-century benefit of hindsight. Am I in your view missing something? - (signed) Toomas Karmo, in Nõo Rural Municipality, Estonia
In 1951, De Rochemont's production company bought the film rights to George Orwell's "Animal Farm". It was later revealed that he was working as a front for the Central Intelligence Agency to create the film as anti-Communist propaganda.
Lol the part where they discriminated against the Jews, looks exactly like how they discriminated the Unvaccinated in modern times by baring them from entering places etc.
Comments: "Insert Trump here!" "Insert Biden here!" 🤣 Meaningless! What I don't understand is why so few American fascists don't just proudly own up to their beliefs. They get all mad at the word "fascist" and resent being compared to European fascists of the early 20th century.
Lol the part where they discriminated against the Jews, looks exactly like how they discriminated the Unvaccinated in modern times by baring them from entering places etc.
"...Germany has come to produce 80 percent of the food it needs.' (6:30) Given that this is a 1938 film, I know that Germany is less than 9 months from risking the start of a world war by surrounding the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia with thousands of armored vehicles, and demanding that the Czechs hand it over to Germany. Germany is less than 20 months from initiating the Second World War in Europe.
The second World War startet because AH wanted it . Most Germans don't want to go into war, but they had to follow their "Reichskanzler & Führer" . Our family lost my granddad in the battle of East Prussia in 1945 .
And after seeing all that, a Germany more powerful and rabid than the Kaiser's, there were still naifs who thought there would be no repeat of 1917, when the introduction of American troops finally tipped the balance against the Entente. That was blindness (or sedition) of historic proportions. A lot of blood would be spilled as a result of a hope (contrary to every lesson of history) that none might be.
Sounds like America every year of its wretched existence. From the "war for independence" because Britain didn't want to keep paying for westward expansion and told the colonists to stay on their then-current land, to the current days of both Trump and Biden, as well as Obama, Bush, Clinton, and everyone between him and Washington. America was the first fascist state.
So much in this video reminds me of communist china. And I say that as an Asian American. My grandfather escaped the communists at great personal cost.
America is also full of propaganda... "Climate change is not real" "Beef you buy in supermarket is real" "Guns are necessary to protect American democracy" etc...
Cheese and Onions I didn’t say anything about propaganda, but since you bring it up, you miss the point. Is there propaganda in the US? Of course, there is in every country. The difference here is that a diversity of opinion on virtually any topic existing in western countries (US included obviously.) In the US you actually get propaganda from both political parties, often that contradicts each other. In Communist China, you may be allowed an opinion on some things, but they have 1 political party and 1 line of propaganda (the parties line) and you don’t cross it.
I am always amazed how the accent of the us journalists/commentators in the old days sounded very British. My wife is British and when we go to 🇺🇸 for holidays, Us citizens find difficult to understand her British accent 🤣😂. Once an officer, after listening her speaking, asked what was her country. She was so disappointed 🤣😂
I think this was specifically called the “transatlantic” accent. It sounded half American/half British, and was used mostly in movies and by announcers and news readers.
This was a great presentation. My first reaction was thinking how, seven years later, many of those cheerful folks, happy with their smidgen of prosperity, those young men and women enjoying their regimentation, those tens of thousands cheering at those rallies...would be dead, widowed, orphaned, crippled, homeless and starving. They did not know their future, obviously, and now we, living in the future, have to consider what we do not realize about the forces driving our world. Will we, seven years from now, be mourning millions of dead, suffering near total destruction of our cities and facing a generation of desperation? No, those folks in this newsreel didn't think disaster was going to start in September of 1939. Those proud soldiers were certain they were going to conquer the world in 1941. Be careful what you wish for...
There’s no way to see the future… but when this movie was made most people expected a war to come soon in Europe exactly because of what Hitler was doing.
Some amazing predictions or hints of what would happen - not including that within 7 years most of the men seen here would be dead and their leader a burnt corpse in a ditch.
All propaganda must be confined to a few slogans... repeated over and over... etc,... Haven't we seen this happen the last few years? This film should be shown in schools so that history does not repeat itself!
It still bears repeating that Hitler said again and again that Germany wanted no war with Britain. Much of what this film says is true. But what is also true is that this film was part of a larger effort to prepare the American people for war. A war which, at the time, they did not want to be involved in. A war which Roosevelt, campaignIng in 1940, promised to keep out of.
Who cares whether Hitler wanted war with Britain. You can't let a tyrannical genocidal murderous dictator go about invading countries and killing everyone he doesn't like
You know the phrase "making a mountain out of a molehill"? When it comes to history's nightmares, March of Time certainly made a molehill out of a mountain. It's a matter of priorities. They spend 17 seconds on what's happening to the Jews, sandwiched in with 14 minutes of "Germany's not very democratic". But even with what in hindsight is an absurdist bent, the newsreel does its job of highlighting *why* Germany would be an enemy to the United States, as well as highlighting resistance by Americans at a time of misplaced neutrality.
The U.S. gov't knew of the Jewish persecution by the Nazis. But Jews were disliked here, too, so that alone wasn't enough. I don't think we knew about the horrors of the concentration camps. The GIs' reaction to those horrors seems shocking and genuine.
Since you mentioned it, that was exactly the problem: the normalized hatred. The fact that tiptoeing around actual issues was necessary to push action of any kind continues to be a sad thing ... along with never having the guts to ask the question "how far is too far"?
There is an irony that the reel describes, in disgust, signs stating No Jews here and separate benches for them to sit at in the park, whilst the US Southern States practiced exactly the same policies to blacks.
@@robrussell5329to your comment, the words “concentration camp” didn’t have the same connotation as today, since many countries (US included) had encampments of people being kept apart from the public at large. The difference was, the concentration camps that ppl were used to hearing about weren’t death camps hell bent on wholesale torture and genocide, like what we think of when we hear the term today.
Could America really condemn Nazi racial persecution in a time where black Americans were literally second class citizens in the exact same way Jews were in Germany? Would be nonsense to try.
I was shocked to see the map of Bund Summer Camps with one marked in southwestern Pennsylvania. I am curious to find a list of the locations of these camps, does one exist.
A difficult destructive speech that, to illustrate its negative description, has nothing but images of prosperity and happy people. Let's not forget that in those days America was still in a deep crisis since 1929.
They could have been migrants from the UK, but the American accent has changed quite a lot over the past 80 to 90 years - especially people who were already older at that time and living in NE states.
Of course, Nazi Germany was a terrible place for certain people, but the Americans didn’t seem that bad because they didn’t want to go to war with Nazi Germany. Of course the war started 1939, but the Americans only entered December 1941, when Germany actually declared war on America four days after Pearl Harbor?
I can recommend Adam Tooze's book The Wages of Destruction. He takes a deep dive into the economy and economic policy of Nazi Germany, answering questions about living conditions and whether Hitler actually fixed the broken Weimar economy.
@@hand587 Uh, I mean real information about... daily life. Like how it was to go to a pub, what festivals they had.. not reading a book, I wanna see pictures and see what products they were using. You know, beyond American propaganda.
Lol the part where they discriminated against the Jews, looks exactly like how they discriminated the Unvaccinated in modern times by baring them from entering places etc.
Most dictatorships regardless of ideology have those similarities. The Cold War capitalist dictatorships of South Vietnam, South Korea, Republic of China, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, etc. all had these similarities.
They were experts at propaganda, and presentation is a big part of that. Not just graphic design, but architecture, military uniforms, all were calculated to make a striking visual impression and bolster the messages of the Nazi party.
These are not details of the first importance. What is of the first importance is what the newsreel documents, namely the systematic dismantling of civic liberties. - Btw, although this is of very minor, very secondary importance, one may as well remark that alongside the full employment was fake food - Frankenstein pastries, weird pseudo-dairy, concocted by ingenious chemists from such things as cod. As for that thing-of-very-secondary-importance which is the Volkswagen, check the output from the plant in Wolfsburg that was supposed to deliver them, and check the fate of people who paid for their anticipated Volkswagens via a kind of saving scheme, without ever getting delivery. You will find that only a negligible slice of the population obtained the paid-for motorcar before the war came and Wolfsburg got devoted to other purposes. The Wolkswagen is a POST-war (1950s, 1960s) success story, not a PRE-war (1930s) success story. - (signed) Toomas Karmo, in Nõo Rural Municipality, Estonia
@Mauricio Ramos If you allege bias, you must provide detailed evidence. Am I misreporting any facts in my comment, or leaving unreported facts which bias-free writing would report? Provide details, please.
Unemployment was outlawed by the Nazis, Germans were “purchasing” the Volkswagen on the installment plan and no one ever received one, the so called economic miracle was accomplished by running huge budget deficits. Go back and get more accurate propaganda from Herr Goebbels my fascist friend.
Yeah, and what were the jews doing at that time big guy? Oh yeah, slave labor, getting jailed and murdered for violating the nuremberg laws. But you clearly dont see jews as humans so yeah the average german family probably was doing alright.
