Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Performance: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Year of recording: 21 February 1977
I. Adagio – Allegro
II. Andante in G major
III. Finale (Presto)
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Sunday, 12 January 2025
Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 599, 25 February 1942
1. Germany
In Berlin, the Führer congratulated the entire German people on the 9th anniversary of the Reich.
– Procession with flags in the Palace of Sports, a favourite meeting place for National Socialists.
– Adolf Hitler is walking down the aisle, all pulling hands.
– The Führer welcomes the wounded - the guests of honour of this meeting, followed by Goering, Goebbels.
– The Führer said: “Any weakling can endure victory, but only the strong in spirit can endure the blows of fate. Providence bestows the supreme victory only on those who remain firm despite adversity. The victory of our motherland requires first of all tireless labour in the production of military equipment, weapons and vehicles. Even if the enemy's numbers triple, we will still crush them as before. This war we are waging not only for the German people, but for the whole of Europe, and therefore for all civilised mankind.”
– The listeners are cheering, stretching out their hands.
2. Germany.
Military exercises cadets in various military schools (communications school, military engineering, artillery, etc.).
– Cadets’ infantry school at classes on combat training.
– Future officers must master not only the ability to use a grenade and rifle, but also heavy infantry weapons.
– Field exercises at a tank school.
– Training officers of rapid reaction troops.
– Cadets are riding bicycles, a stop on the ground.
– Close-up of the Commander of the Iron Cross Major Nimak, he conducts practice with topographical maps.
– Classes in sports, swimming.
– Radio classes at the communications school.
– To beat the morse code, you need to be able to work with the hand.
– A cadet at the transmitter.
– In the sapper school taught the basics of undermining tanks.
– Rehearsal of the reflection of a tank attack.
– Cadets and the instructor, who gives instructions and explanations.
– Soldiers with the instructor on the ground.
– Bomb squad is trained to capture a bunker with flamethrowers and explosive devices.
– Marching through deep forest drifts develops endurance and stamina.
3. USSR. Eastern Front.
Finnish front.
– Delivery of ammunition and food in Karelia.
– Horse cart moving through the forest.
– They are soldiers.
– Soldiers in the forest.
– Break, cooking on the fire.
– Soldiers at the fire.
– A short sleep after a long transition.
– Sappers restore the destroyed bridge.
– Clearing railway tracks from the snow.
– On the rails is a train.
– Receiving supplies and food.
– Sleigh wagon.
– He moves on the restored bridge.
– They are soldiers.
– Field kitchen.
– In a populated area.
– Soldiers help to move out of place stuck car.
– In the location of the flying unit.
– Pilots clean the aircraft from the snow and prepare for departure.
– Planes take off into the air.
– Distribution of food to soldiers.
– The queue to the distribution point.
– Couriers on skis delivered hot food to the forward positions.
– Soldiers in camouflage.
– Handing the division commander of the Iron Cross.
– And there in front of the enemy positions are visible, they are under continuous observation.
4. USSR. Northern section of the eastern front.
Horse artillery takes a fighting position.
– Observers recorded rockets, which means that the Russians are preparing to attack.
– A police regiment was tasked to neutralise an enemy detachment surrounded and breaking through to their own.
– German skiers overcome wire fences.
– Infantry in a populated area, fighting are for every house.
– The village is captured, lying dead Soviet soldiers.
– Captured Bolsheviks.
5. North Africa.
Movement of German tank units from Tripoli to Benghazi.
– Colonel-General Rommel in the car follows in Benghazi.
– The results of the bombardment of British positions.
– The entry of German troops in Benghazi.
– The population welcomes German and Italian soldiers.
– Poster depicting Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
– Captured enemy transport.
– On the beach.
– British soldiers are going to surrender as prisoners.
– Column of British prisoners, among them Indians and Africans.
– The prisoners at the assembly point.
– Colonel-General Rommel consults with officers.
– German gun is firing.
– Italian gun fires on the positions of the British.
– An officer is watching the military action through binoculars.
– Rommel with officers.
– Burning British military equipment.
– Rommel examines the captured English tank.
– He on the tank through binoculars examines the positions.
– The battlefield east of Cyrenaica went to the Germans.
– German tanks are on the offensive.
– They are in the desert sands.
6. The Atlantic.
German submarine in the campaign to the American coast.
– The life of submariners on board the boat.
– Awakening sailors.
– They put on robes, go on deck.
– Change of watch, sailors put on waterproof uniforms.
– Sailor settles in a hammock for rest.
– The boat near New York.
– On the horizon, the enemy boat.
– Firing it from the onboard gun.
– Sailors bring a shell.
– The enemy vessel is on fire.
– Battle alarm on the submarine.
– Sailors take their places according to the combat schedule.
– The commander of the boat, Lieutenant Commander Erich Topp, Knight's Cross, gives the last orders.
– The enemy launches a bombing attack.
– The inside of the boat appears bursting water.
– Works to repair the accident.
– Pumping out the water.
– The accident is eliminated.
– Sailors on holiday.
– They drink coffee.
– The boat in the North Atlantic.
– Sailors in their battle stations.
– The hatch opens.
– The commander is on board.
– Ice frozen on the surface of the boat.
– Announcer on the sinking of 80 ships between 24 January and 21 February.
7. The English Channel.
German battleship “Prince Eugen” accompanied by destroyers and aircraft in the strait.
– The British themselves call it the largest of the ships that made a breach in British naval rule.
– A naval battle to break between Dover and Calais.
– Here the British finally become bolder, they attack the German ships from the air and sea.
– Shelling British ships, firing German board guns.
– The bombardment of British aircraft from anti-aircraft guns.
– Falling downed British aircraft and pilot with a parachute into the sea.
– Data on downed British aeroplanes.
– German sailors on board their ships.
– Announcer on the successful combat camaraderie of the fleet and aviation.
– Squadron entered the North Sea.
Thursday, 9 January 2025
Adolf Hitler - Radio Address from the Post Office at Berchtesgaden, 15 January 1935
January 15, 1935
Germans!
An injustice which has existed for fifteen years is coming to an end! The suffering to which so many hundreds of thousands of Volksgenossen in the Saar have been subjected during this time was a suffering shared by the German nation! The joy at the return of our Volksgenossen is a joy shared by the entire German Reich. Fate willed that it not be superior reason which would end this both pointless and regrettable situation, but a section in a treaty which promised to bring peace to the world and led instead only to endless suffering and constant discord.
Our pride is therefore all the greater that, after fifteen years of violating the voice of the blood, it has now, on January 13, 1935, made its most powerful profession of faith! There is one thing we all know, my dear Volksgenossen of the Saar: the fact that today, in a few hours, the bells will ring throughout the German Reich as an outward expression of the proud joy which fills us, is something we owe to you Germans in the Saar, to your sheerly unshakeable loyalty, to your selfsacrificing patience and persistence, and to your bravery.
Neither force nor temptation have made you waver in the faith that you are Germans, just as you have always been, and as we all are now and will remain! Hence, I may extend to you as the Fuhrer of the German Volk and Chancellor of the Reich, in the name of all Germans whose spokesman I am at this moment, the gratitude of the nation, and may assure you how happy we are at this hour that you are once again united with us as sons of our Volk and citizens of the new German Reich.
It is a proud feeling to be chosen by Providence as the representative of a nation. In the next few days and weeks, you, my Germans of the Saar, will be the representatives of the German Volk and the German Reich. I know that you will not forget in the coming weeks of joy over the victory-just as you did not forget in the past under the most difficult circumstances-that there are those whose most fervent desire it is to find fault in your return to the great homeland, even after the event. You must therefore continue to maintain the strictest discipline! The German Volk will be all the more grateful to you because you have taken upon yourselves a decision that will remove tensions in Europe which have weighed most heavily: for all of us wish to perceive in this act of January 13 an initial and decisive step toward a gradual reconciliation among those who, twenty years ago, stumbled into the most horrible and least fruitful battles of all time, victims of fate and human fallibility. Your decision, my dear German Volksgenossen of the Saar, today makes it possible for me to submit a declaration, as our selfless, historic contribution to the pacification of Europe which is so vital: when your reintegration has been affected, the German Reich will place no more territorial demands upon France! I believe that, in doing this, we are also expressing to the other powers our appreciation for faithfully scheduling this plebiscite in cooperation with France and ourselves and for making it possible that it subsequently be carried out.
It is our unanimous wish that this German end to such a tragic injustice will contribute to a greater pacification between the peoples of Europe. For just as our determination to gain and ensure equality of rights for Germany is great and absolute, our resolve not to evade those tasks which are a necessary part of bringing about genuine solidarity among the nations in the face of today’s perils and crises is equally great.
You, my German Volksgenossen of the Saar, have made a significant contribution to increasing the awareness of the indissoluble community of our Volk and of the inward and outward value of the German nation and today’s Reich. Germany thanks you for this from millions of overflowing hearts.
Welcome to our dear, shared homeland, to our united German Reich!
Monday, 6 January 2025
Spanish Waffen-SS Volunteers in Italy, 1944 - 1945
A Chapter in the Unknown Story of the Spanish Waffen- SS
Published in „Siegrunen“ Magazine - Vol. XII, No. 4,
Whole Number 72, Spring-Summer 2002
By Erik Norling
In the spring of 1944, the last Spanish soldiers of the „Blue Legion” (former Blue Division) were withdrawn and returned to the Fatherland after serving three long years at the Eastern Front. They left behind on Russian soil the bodies of 5.000 comrades, 300 captives in Russian hands, and 21,900 casualties out of the 47.000 who fought. But they also came back with the feeling that General Franco was betraying his word when at Christmas 1941 he promised the officers of this voluntary unit that in case, someday, the road to Berlin was under threat, then a million Spaniards would be there to help their comrade-in-arms Germany! Now he preferred to secure his country and he approached the Allies for negotiations.
Many of these volunteers, (the actual estimations are between 1.000 and 1.500), remained in Germany or again crossed the border with the occupied France to continue the fight against the Reds. For decades historians have recorded that only a handful of Spaniards that fought at Berlin 1945 in the „unit Ezquerra”, were in this group. The rest were then entered into a historical blackout... This article is an advance look of one of the areas of the research now being made in Spain that we hope will be published soon dealing with the front service of Spanish volunteers in the Wehrmacht (Yugoslavia, Rumania, Slovakia, etc.) and the Waffen-SS (with Leon Degrelle, the Dirlewanger units, the Italian SS Divisions, Skorzeny’s commandos, the special antiterrorist units of the SD in France, the battle of Berlin, captivity in Rusia, etc.). The political and propaganda activities around this unknown chapter of Spain's engagement during WWII will also be considered.
Into the Waffen-SS
Even before the repatriation of the Blue Legion both the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS competed for the recruitment of Spanish volunteers to be enlisted into their ranks. Due to the special diplomatic situation between Spain and Germany these actions had to be fulfilled undercover with secrecy. During 1944 the SS-Hauptamt decided to accept Spanish volunteers into their units, mainly in the „Wallonian” Division commanded by Leon Degrelle as well as in the security units that fought the terrorists in Southern France. The latter was due to the fact that many of the terrorists were Spanish Reds who had escaped from Spain after the Civil War. The recruiters of the WSS decided to even compete with the Wehrmacht and sent their own agents to the instruction camps where the Army kept the Spanish volunteers to convince them to cp,e over to the Waffen-SS, even deserting if necessary.
In this way many Spanish volunteers that had been being trained by the Wehrmacht at Hall/Tirol for many months and who were frustrated for not being sent to the front accepted the offer made by the Waffen-SS and left the Wehrmacht. One group was concentrated with the 28. SS Division „Wallonien” and took part in the heavy battles around Amswald and Stargard in Pomerania February/March 1945 ending at Berlin. Another group was designated to became part of a new unit that was developed during 1944, the 24. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS „Karstjäger” in Italy.
They were idealists that had snuck across over the border, vets from the Blue Division with experience from the Eastern Front, but also some former Spanish Reds disappointed who wanted to return to Spain and workers who left for Germany at the beginning of the war to work at their factories. They felt that by enlisting in the Waffen-SS believed that it would be easier to return home.
Anti-partisan Warfare
In the spring 1944, a former 2nd Lieutenant of the Spanish Foreign Legion and vet from the Spanish Civil War, Jose Ortiz Fernandez from northern Spain enlisted in the German anti-terrorist units in France. He worked for the SD and/or the „Brandenburg” division of the Wehrmacht until the fall of France. After the D-Day he was ordered to visit factories, KZ-camps and other facilities where Spaniards could be found in order to convince them to enlist in the Waffen-SS. He managed to obtain around hundred volunteers for his unit who were concentrated at Vienna. The Spanish platoon leaders were: G. Trapaga, Carlos Meleiro, Jose Maria Ozores, Felix Millän and Alfredo Solis, all of them vets from the Blue Division that decided to remain in Germany when the unit was withdrawn. Ortiz received the rank of SS- Oberschaflihrer (even though he was to be the company CO) and his officers as SS-Unterscharführer apart from Trapaga that was made an SS-Oberscharführer due to the fact that he had been a Lieutenant in the Spanish Army and was a veteran from the Civil War.
In the summer of 1944, the Waffen-SS needed to enlarge the SS-Karstwehr-Bataillon that served as sort of a police force in the border provinces between Austria, Italy and Slovenia. This was a mountainous area with difficult communications but without an especially strong guerrilla forces, until the autumn of 1943 when the Fascist government collapsed and the country was divided into two. Then a communist opposition developed along with the guerrillas supported by the Anglo-American AI lieds and they started to spread terror amongst the civilian population. At the time the SS-Karstwehr Battalion had about 1000 men, and the area's Gauleiter put in a request to the SS-HQ to enlarge the unit to an SS- Gebirgs-Division (24. Waffen-Gebirgs Division der SS Karstjäger) with around 7.000 troops — a figure they never succeeded in reaching as the division as such never came to have more than 2.000 men and it was finally redesignated an SS-Brigade. It was mostly composed of Ethnic Germans from the Balkans and South Tyrol with around 300 Italians (the 2nd Company was almost completely Italian for instance), as well as some Croats and Slovenians. It was used to combat the increasingly aggressive communist partisan activity in the area.
The Spaniards had been trained as a mountain unit by the Alpine units of the Wehrmacht at Hall/Tyrol and many of them also had experience in anti-terrorist actions from France so they were considered by the Waffen-SS to be suitable for the „Karstjäger” Division/Brigade... The Waffen-SS recruiters also took into consideration that some of the Spanish volunteers had been incorporated into the „Brandenburg” Commando Division during the first half of 1944 when this unit was engaged in Italy in anti-partisan warfare close to Perugia. After the assassination attempt against Hitler, July 1944, this unit was incorporated into the SS.
By the end of 1944 the Spanish company arrived at the „Karstjäger” positions at San Leopoldo, a small village between Pontebba and Malborghetto, close to the Austrian border. They were consolidated as the 5th Company of the Waffen-Gebirgs [KarstjägerJ-Regiment der SS 59 and SS-Oscha. Ortiz was appointed company commander. They were soon engaged into anti-partisan warfare against the communist bands, patrolling the valleys and looking for terrorists.
The Spanish SS company was based at Tolmezzo, where the Russian Cossacks had their camp. The Spanish volunteers managed to come into conflict with the Cossacks who acted as if they were not members of the German Army and respected neither the civilian population nor the orders issued by the higher command. In one case a fight broke out between the Spaniards and the Cossacks and several individuals were injured... At the end of March 1945 partisan activity increased considerably and the „Karstjäger” Brigade moved south, closer to Trieste and the Adriatic coast where the communists were launching n heavy assault against Gorizia that would last for 14 days. A German member of the brigade remembered that the Spaniards „were very aggressive in the attack”. He could also recount one episode when the partisans attacked the brigade's positions at Chiapovano, north of Gorizi. This was when Yugoslav partisans wanted to conquer this Italian province. The Yugoslavs killed and destroyed everything that came into their hands, and today the mass graves are still to be found where almost 30.000 civilians were murdered. The SMG-group (Heavy Gun-machines) of the Spanish company was encircled and had to fight their way out with knives and the empty guns after using all of their ammunition. But they left many Reds killed on the behind!
During these fights the Spanish company had many casualties and the heavily wounded were placed in the Military Hospital at Gorizia or Udine, the principal town of the province. Such was the case of the SS-Rottenführer Camarza from Benavente (Zamora) who, after being wounded at San Vito and transported to Gorizia, was assassinated with another 13 of his comrades of the brigade by communist partisans when they conquered the town May 1945. Another war crime of the victors! On April 8th the platoon of the Spanish company led by the SS-Oscha Trapaga was encircled in an ambush at Ponte di Canale. Eight of the Spanish volunteers were killed in action on this day, including the Lieutenant Trapaga from Madrid, and many others were wounded. The dead Spaniards were all buried at the German military cemetery at Costermano.
When the war was about to end, the German commander of the brigade, who had his HQ at San Giorgio di Nogaro, called for SS-Oscha Ortiz and explained to him his decision to move north to reach Austrian territory. The Italians and Spaniards were allowed to leave the unit if they wanted to do so. Ortiz, wounded himself, immediately answered that he wanted to reach the French border and enter into Spain. The German commander then ordered that the Spanish company should then do the last rear-guard service to the unit and: remain in their positions until the full brigade was able to withdraw to Pontebba, close to the Austrian border, so that that the Reds might not realize that they were retreating.
Adventurous Escape
Ortiz met with all his men, about 60 of whom were left, and explained his plan: they would try to get civilian clothes and tell the Italians that they were displaced workers, „political prisoners“ that were „enslaved to work in Germany” if they were stopped. First, they would try to reach Venezia, after that Milan and then Genova or the French border but first they had to protect their comrades that were withdrawing. During these battles they lost several men; for instance, a Spanish patrol that was trying to blow up a bridge was captured by the partisans.
The company, now in civilian clothes, was then intercepted by a partisan troop and captured at Latisana, the first town on the way to Venezia. A month later the American troops arrived in the area and they were set free. The group, now smaller, moved then to Venezia where they hoped to find a Spanish consulate. They were told that the Italian authorities were seeking them, blaming them for being killers and rapists! Despite these warnings, they were helped with transport to Milan where it would be more easy to disappear in the big city. At Milano they were discovered, and the SS-Uscha Ozores was wounded and captured by partisans, but the rest of the group managed to escape to France. Two months later they entered Spain.
Other Spanish volunteers of the company, who became lost or isolated during the escape, would manage to enlist in partisan units and after that contact the Spanish diplomats. Some cases are recorded where they became POW’s of the Allied troops. By November 1945 the figure of rescued Spaniards in Italy under diplomatic protection at Genova and Rome was around 200, but not all of them were soldiers as many were just workers that had escaped from Germany after the defeat. The Spanish authorities were eventually able to get them all home.
With the 29. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (Ital. Nr. 1)
However, the Spanish company of the SS-Karstjäger-Brigade was not the sole unit in Italy with Spanish volunteers. December 1944, a group of 10-12 Spaniards that were serving with Leon Degrelle’s 28th SS Division „Wallonien“ and another 42 Italians who had been living in Belgium and had been assigned to the division, received permission to change their unit. They were ordered to the 29th Italian SS division that was being trained in North Italy. The Spaniards preferred to serve in an Italian unit as they considered themselves closer to them, due to their mutual Latin heritage.
The Spanish group was led by the SS-Oscha. Camargo and the SS-Uscha. Jose Javier Martinez Alberich, former veterans of the Spanish Blue Division. They were incorporated as an infantry platoon under the command of the Italian Waffen-Ustuf Giorgio Gardini in the 1st Company of the training battalion of the 82. SS. Rgt. of the 29th SS-Division. Some were spread throughout the other companies. They were trained at the camp of Rodengo-Saiano, north of Milan and participated in some anti-partisan raids until the war ended.
Their fate is unknown, as has we have not been able to trace even one of this group in the list of displaced persons that returned to Spain after the war through Italy or other countries. Therefore, it could be reasonable to believe that they were killed during the bloody reprisals the partisans carried out after the peace came. At least 40.000 Italians, (and perhaps Spaniards and others as well!) were murdered after the war in one of the bloodiest butcheries ever seen in Europe.
Above: This photo, originally published in SIEGRUNEN #66, is one of the only ones known to show a Spanish Waffen-SS volunteer. On the left is the Spanish Waffen-Oberscharführer Camargo along with the Italian Waffen-Oberscharführer (later Untersturmführer) Giorgio Gardini during military maneuvers of the Waffen-Grenadier Rgt. der SS H2's training battalion near Rodengo-Saiano, Italy in March 1945. (Dr. Marco Novarese).
The SS-Einsatz Kompanie „Gross Koris“ was formed for emergency combat duty around 15 April 1945. While nothing has been found out about its exact deployment, many of its assigned soldiers were later carried as „missing in action“, indicating that the outfit met up with some type of catastrophe.
Friday, 3 January 2025
Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten (1941)
Women Are Better Diplomats (1941)
Directed by: Georg Jacoby
Screenplay by: Karl Georg Külb
Story by: Karl Georg Külb
Based on: A novel by Hans Flemming
Produced by: Max Pfeiffer
Cinematography: Konstantin Irmen-Tschet and Alexander von Lagorio
Edited by: Erich Kobler and Margret Noell
Music by: Franz Grothe and Willy Dehmel
Production company: UFA
Distributed by: UFA
Release date: 31 October 1941 (Germany)
Running time: 93 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: German
Budget: 2.4 million ℛℳ
Box office: 7.9 million ℛℳ
Starring:
Marika Rökk: Marie-Luise Pally
Willy Fritsch: Rittmeister von Karstein
Aribert Wäscher: The Landgrave
Hans Leibelt: Privy Councillor Berger
Ursula Herking: Mariechen
Herbert Hübner: Dr Schuster
Carl Kuhlmann: Paul Lamberg: Director of the Homburg Casino
Georg Alexander: Viktor Sugorsky
Leo Peukert: The mayor
Erika von Thellmann: His wife
Karl Günther: The General
Rudolf Carl: Karl, the cavalry captain of the Karstein’s boy
Edith Oß: Annette
Rolf Heydel: Hanussen
Käte Kühl: Mrs Lamberg
Erich Fiedler: Waiter
Women Are Better Diplomats (German: Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten) is a 1941 German musical comedy film from the Nazi era. Directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Marika Rökk, Willy Fritsch and Aribert Wäscher. It was based on a novel by Hans Flemming. The film was the first German feature film to be made in colour, and was one of the most expensive films produced during the Third Reich. The film met with a positive public response and was among the most popular German films of the early war years.
Plot
A dancer named Marie-Luise Pally is sent on a diplomatic mission to the Frankfurt Parliament in an attempt to stop her uncle’s casino in Homburg shutting down. The film is set in the German revolutions of 1848–1849.
Production
The production period for Women Are Better Diplomats was both long and expensive, as the production team encountered various difficulties during the making of the film. It took longer to produce than any other Universum Film AG (Ufa) production, with a gap of more than two years between the start of filming in July 1939 and its debut screening in October 1941. The delays prompted the cast to joke that „When the film is done, the war will be over too“. These delays also increased the cost of the production. The original budget was 1.45 million ℛℳ, but the final production cost was actually 2.4 million ℛℳ, making it the thirteenth most expensive film produced during the Third Reich.
Many of the delays in production stemmed from the fact that Women Are Better Diplomats was the first German feature film to be shot in colour. The colour process used was Agfacolor, which had recently been developed as a German alternative to Technicolor. As filming in Agfacolor was still new, frequent improvements were made to the process during the film’s production, prompting the re-shooting of scenes to enhance the reproduction of colours. Lead actress Marika Rökk recalled that „If we thought we had finished a scene, some revoltingly gifted technician would come up with an idea for improving it“. Outdoor scenes were particularly problematic: one dance scene filmed in Babelsberg Park, for example, had to be re-filmed a number of times due to the grass appearing as blue or red rather than green, depending on the sun’s position.
A further 500,000 ℛℳ was added to the production cost when Karel Štěpánek, who had originally been cast for the part of Oberleutnant Keller, fled to London after the initial conclusion of filming and performed on radio there. This led to him being blacklisted by the Propaganda Ministry, and he had to be replaced by Erich Fiedler, with the relevant scenes being re-shot.
The film was one of many musical productions that featured a partnership between director Georg Jacoby and actress Marika Rökk. They had previously worked together on Hot Blood (1936), The Beggar Student (1936), Gasparone (1937) and A Night in May (1938). Jacoby and Rökk married each other in 1940, during the production of Women Are Better Diplomats.
Release and reception
The film’s premiere was on 31 October 1941. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels was not pleased with the results, but the film met with a positive public response. It was the third most popular film released in Germany between 1940 and 1942, behind Die Grosse Liebe (1942) and Wunschkonzert (1940). In the next three years, the film’s takings were around 7.9 million ℛℳ.
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