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Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Paula Wessely | ... | Maria Thomas | |
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Peter Petersen | ... | Dr. Thomas |
Attila Hörbiger | ... | Ludwig Launhardt | |
Ruth Hellberg | ... | Martha Launhardt | |
Carl Raddatz | ... | Dr. Fritz Mutius | |
Otto Wernicke | ... | Old Manz | |
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Elsa Wagner | ... | Frau Schmid |
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Eduard Köck | ... | Herr Schmid |
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Franz Pfaudler | ... | Balthasar Manz |
Gerhild Weber | ... | Josepha Manz | |
Werner Fuetterer | ... | Oskar Friml | |
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Hermann Erhardt | ... | Karl Michalek |
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Berta Drews | ... | Elfriede |
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Eugen Preiß | ... | Salomonson |
Boguslaw Samborski | ... | Bürgermeister |
This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify the invasion of Poland--and thus the start of World War II--by "showing" how the ethnic Germans in Poland were were discriminated against and oppressed by the Poles, and how they were rescued from extinction only by the intervention of the German army. Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com
This is a must-see film if you are a student of Nazi propaganda. Otherwise, this film is to be avoided. In this movie, the Polish people are portrayed as brutal and murderous, always ready to torture the ethnic Germans living on Polish soil. Those ethnic Germans, on the other hand, are shown as the innocent victims of Polish brutalities. Victims indeed that were to be saved by 'Führer' Adolf Hitler. For instance: the film contains a scene in which a young woman, with a swastika chain dangling around her neck, is grabbed by an older, mean Polish man. It is obvious that he wants to rape her. One should not forget that this movie was made after the German invasion of Poland to justify that very same war. That's what the title of this movie means: 'Heimkehr' or 'Homecoming' hints at the 'coming home' of the ethnic Germans in the 'Greater German Reich', after the annexation of Poland. This films was produced in close collaboration with Joseph Goebbels's ministry of propaganda.