Gestern und heute

Clips of Hitler's speeches alternate with clips of the industrial ruin before his rise to power, and the happy state of German industry and armed forces as of 1938.

It looks like a fairly ordinary film, the government lauding all it has accomplished in the previous five years. Of course, looking at it in historical context, we can see the terrible devastation wrought by the regime, and be appalled at the cult of personality ..... as if that is not a current issue with national leaders, not only abroad but here in the US. Still, it was fairly typical in the 1930s, not only for the Fascist nations, but others as well; anyone who has seen movies like THREE HEROINES is aware of the tremendous cult of personality that surrounded Stalin in the USSR.