3 NSDAP movies youve never seen, not war footage.

Hände hoch! (Hands Up!), 1942 [first movie] Kinderlandverschickung (KLV), or “relocation of children to the countryside,” was a large-scale Nazi program during World War II that evacuated children from German cities threatened by Allied bombing to rural or safer areas. It built on earlier recreational schemes but became a major wartime evacuation and indoctrination effort. Morgenrot (English titles: Dawn or Morning Red) [second movie] Set in 1915, the story centers on successful U-boat commander Helmut Liers and his crew of the U-21. While on leave in their small northern German hometown of Meerskirchen, Liers is a local hero. His mother (who has already lost two sons in the war) desperately wants him to take a safer shore assignment, but he refuses, declaring he will fight until victory or death. A romantic subplot involves a local woman who is believed to love Liers’s second-in-command (Oberleutnant “Fips” Fredericks) but is actually in love with the older Liers. GPU (the red terror) [third movie] It is a black-and-white German feature (about 99–101 minutes) produced by UFA. Joseph Goebbels ordered several anti-Soviet films after the German invasion of the USSR in 1941; this was the first major one made after the earlier Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Production began in December 1941. It premiered in Berlin on 14 August 1942, was profitable at the box office, but Goebbels reportedly found the script and acting too simplistic and unconvincing. It was restricted from youth audiences and is noted for its crude anti-communist, anti-Soviet, and antisemitic propaganda (portraying the Soviet secret police as run by conspiratorial Jewish Communists).