Another reviewer pointed out quite a few misses in this doc.
It's a 19 min propaganda doc about the rebuilding of Germany largely focused on cities in the British zone. The music is obnoxious. It focuses on how we need to support Germany and focus our wealth on Germany to re-educate them the right way and ban Nazis. So every man gets interviewed and fingerprinted. Teachers are hired. Coal is used for steel to rebuild everything. This time around Germany will not be allowed to roam freely. We see how Germans cut wood to get energy and how they live in basements under rubble. They have nothing. Even train tracks were bombed. Pretty effective propaganda. But there is not much here and it's just a dry narrator telling us about things.
They do claim a rich German family was as evil as Hitler for building the weapons for Germany. Not sure they are as evil at all. The doc also focuses on how they interview each single man so make sure he is not a Nazi. They study documents and ask specific questions. Of course this is mostly for show. Not only did the former Nazis get into power in Germany they even got into power in other countries like USA where they got to run the US space program. Actually this was something you had to allow if you wanted to rebuild Germany. USSR of course caused tens of thousands to die to punish them for being anti-Communist. But they never planned on rebuilding anything. Rather they stole everything they could and transported it to USSR while killing many young men.
If this doc was made in 1947 it would have been considerably better as the British gave the denazifaction control to Germans. In the 1950's you were already freeing former prisoners you just a few years prior were hanging left and right. So the ideas changed fully. Instead of punishing Nazis the focus was on rebuilding the country as fast as possible to make sure no wars could break out and you could defend them against Stalin. Maybe a proper doc would be 10 episodes set in each given year so explain what the rebuilding process was. You learn fast while doing this stuff. Keep in mind USA screwed it up in Iraq when they fired all Saddam party people and the military/police. You got hundreds of thousands young unemployed angry men with military training which then created ISIS and caused Iraq to nearly fall again until the West defeated ISIS for an Iraq that just couldn't do anything to stop them. Muslim terror groups then started suicide missions in Europe as revenge for this new post Iraq war. It was a huge disaster. This teaches us that just firing or killing a group to fully stop an evil power is likely a terrible idea. Men can be reeducated and most men in power have qualifications no one else has. You can't just replace them as there is no one left smart enough to replace an engineer, lawyer, or middle-manager.
It's a 19 min propaganda doc about the rebuilding of Germany largely focused on cities in the British zone. The music is obnoxious. It focuses on how we need to support Germany and focus our wealth on Germany to re-educate them the right way and ban Nazis. So every man gets interviewed and fingerprinted. Teachers are hired. Coal is used for steel to rebuild everything. This time around Germany will not be allowed to roam freely. We see how Germans cut wood to get energy and how they live in basements under rubble. They have nothing. Even train tracks were bombed. Pretty effective propaganda. But there is not much here and it's just a dry narrator telling us about things.
They do claim a rich German family was as evil as Hitler for building the weapons for Germany. Not sure they are as evil at all. The doc also focuses on how they interview each single man so make sure he is not a Nazi. They study documents and ask specific questions. Of course this is mostly for show. Not only did the former Nazis get into power in Germany they even got into power in other countries like USA where they got to run the US space program. Actually this was something you had to allow if you wanted to rebuild Germany. USSR of course caused tens of thousands to die to punish them for being anti-Communist. But they never planned on rebuilding anything. Rather they stole everything they could and transported it to USSR while killing many young men.
If this doc was made in 1947 it would have been considerably better as the British gave the denazifaction control to Germans. In the 1950's you were already freeing former prisoners you just a few years prior were hanging left and right. So the ideas changed fully. Instead of punishing Nazis the focus was on rebuilding the country as fast as possible to make sure no wars could break out and you could defend them against Stalin. Maybe a proper doc would be 10 episodes set in each given year so explain what the rebuilding process was. You learn fast while doing this stuff. Keep in mind USA screwed it up in Iraq when they fired all Saddam party people and the military/police. You got hundreds of thousands young unemployed angry men with military training which then created ISIS and caused Iraq to nearly fall again until the West defeated ISIS for an Iraq that just couldn't do anything to stop them. Muslim terror groups then started suicide missions in Europe as revenge for this new post Iraq war. It was a huge disaster. This teaches us that just firing or killing a group to fully stop an evil power is likely a terrible idea. Men can be reeducated and most men in power have qualifications no one else has. You can't just replace them as there is no one left smart enough to replace an engineer, lawyer, or middle-manager.