Word: germanv
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...pattern of home propaganda in Germanv became clear. The Nazi leaders were telling the German people that they could expect nothing but the most savage treatment if Germany lost the war. Simultaneously, an equally clear pattern of foreign propaganda, beamed to the U.S. and British people, began to appear. It was a complex of insidious suggestion: that the Germans were going to practice new cruelties on their prisoners, that the Churchill and Roosevelt Governments were cruel enough to reply in kind, that they were too weak to reply in kind. If this was the dilemma which vexed London and Washington...
...kill herself by jumping from the top of the staircase well. The other children drag her back in time. The final scene, in which the overwrought children gather around the young Fraulein, is made the symbol of the harsh old principal's spiritual defeat, the prediction of old Germanv's death...
Later Lady Chamberlain went to Rome to discuss plans with the Premier, to get his official consent to remove the pictures. In Germanv she enlisted the aid of then Chancellor Stresemann, in Spain she talked with King Alfonso. Sir Joseph Duveen arranged for U. S. loans...
...These German actors have a serious, slow, almost stubborn way of performing which is utterly convincing. The shooting of the scenes from striking angles, the sudden change of-tempo and the superb lighting effects make Primanerliebe another reason why U. S. producers should take some more hints from Germanv...