Perhaps it is as well that human beings have short memories. If not it would be strange that someone from Hamburg should not notice the enormous lie with which this film begins about the "strategic" nature of British bombing at the end of the war since Hamburg was the victim of the 1943 Operation Gomorrah napalm-bombing (42,600 civilians killed, 37,000 wounded and virtually the entire city destroyed. The bombing was "strategic" only in the now-current euphemistic sense.
Although the film that follow portrays accurately enough the miserable state of Germany in 1946, the patronising and arrogant tone of the victorious is far from pleasant. The British, who had sold to the world such a modestly noble view of themselves (as though there as no such thing as an Empire) during the difficult days of the war, rather let the mask slip once the tables had definitively turned.
Another misleading claim in the film concerns the Krupp industrial empire which in fact the British and their US allies took great care to maintain intact (while bombing civilians at the end of the war thy were often carefully avoiding bombing factories and installations they thought would be important to them after the war. It is true that Alfred Krupp was arrested and tried for war-crimes but he was amnestied and freed in 1951 and the company remained in the hands of the family until the recession of the 1960s. Just as responsible for killing British soldiers as Hitler and Göring, eh? If, as William Hartnell intones, "by killing they grew rich", by keeping a low profile, they stayed that way. But then Hartnell did not yet have his telephone-box time-capsule in those days and could not foretell in 1946 the bizarrely hypocritical turn that the so-called "denazification" of Germany would take.
These are not the charming, plucky Brits of the early wartime shorts, these are the British who believed themselves specially ordained to rule three-quarters of the globe. Little surprise then that this film was not intended for the general pubic.