Your Job in Germany

US April 1945. PC: 834th Signal Service Photographic Detachment, Special Services Division, U.S. Army. No personal credit titles in the film. [In charge of production: Frank Capra, with a mighty staff of film professionals]. A fine Imperial War Museum print. 15'. Viewed at Orion, Helsinki, 9 Sept 2005. Vertovian. Whereas the Why We Fight films are propaganda, this piece is agitation in the pure Vertovian sense of montage as rhythm. German history of militarism, under Bismarck, Wilhelm II, Hitler. Tomorrow the world. We almost lost. Montages on suffering. A great sense of rhythm. Can it happen again? Don't relax. Two million ex-Nazi officials out of uniform. The German youth is the most dangerous, poisoned, soaked, the worst education in crime, trained to hate and to destroy. Don't argue. Don't make friends. Don't shake the hand that hailed Hitler, that bombed and destroyed, that held the whip over slaves. The phony peace / war has come to an end.