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Menschen im Sturm (Eng.: In The Eye of the Storm) is a 1941 German film.[1] It was anti-Serbian propaganda and part of a concerted propaganda push against Serbs, attempting to split them from the Croats.[2]
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Synopsis
Vera witnesses the persecution of ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, which awakens her ethnic consciousness. Her cosmopolitan friend Alexander is arrested. Vera flirts with the Serbian commander to allow Volksdeutsche to escape to the border. When arrested, she proudly affirms that she helped her countrymen and, in an escape attempt, is shot, to die happy and heroic.
Motifs
The film reprises many of the same motifs as Heimkehr, in an anti-Serbian rather than anti-Polish context.[3]
A Croats aids the Germans, stating that all Croats should be friendly, and is murdered by Serbs for it, reflecting a wide-spread cliche of the friendly Croat.[4]
References
- ^ "New York Times: Menschen im Sturm (1941)". NY Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/137122/Menschen-im-Sturm/overview. Retrieved 2011-07-25.
- ^ Robert Edwin Hertzstein, The War That Hitler Won p292-3 ISBN 399-11845-4
- ^ Robert Edwin Hertzstein, The War That Hitler Won p293 ISBN 399-11845-4
- ^ Robert Edwin Hertzstein, The War That Hitler Won p294 ISBN 399-11845-4
External links
Categories:- 1941 films
- Nazi World War II propaganda films
- Nazi propaganda films
- Films of the Third Reich
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