(with
English subtitles)
Wort und Tat (English: Words
and Deeds) is a 10 minute-long NS propaganda film directed by Fritz
Hippler, among others. It was released in 1938.
The
film is notable for the extensive use of montage to get its message across. It
begins with a montage of clips from the Weimar period, showing a series of
clips of Labor and Communist rallies, interspersed with scenes of scantily clad
cabaret girls, and then shots of the posters of the different Weimar era
political parties. This illustrates the chaos and decadence of the Weimar
period. This sequence ends with the Social-Democrat Otto Braun making a speech
against National-Socialism.
The
film then goes into a series of sequences showing how National-Socialist rule
has improved various aspects of German life:
-
Agricultural production (with scenes of the Reich
Labor Service at work).
- Education and strengthening of the German youth (Hitler Youth scenes).
- Coal production.
- Autobahn construction.
- The Winter Relief Campaign.
- Steel production.
- Factories being built.
- Education and strengthening of the German youth (Hitler Youth scenes).
- Coal production.
- Autobahn construction.
- The Winter Relief Campaign.
- Steel production.
- Factories being built.
Then the film shifts to a scene of Mussolini praising
the German development (in German), and various shots of the SS marching and
the Luftwaffe flying in formation (which seems to have been lifted from Leni
Riefenstahl’s film: “Tag der Freiheit:
Unsere Wehrmacht”).
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