''Gestern und heute'' (English: ''Yesterday and Today'') is a 1938 German
Nazi
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propaganda
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short film
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directed by
Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882 – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films he made in the Nazi era.
Life and career
Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stag ...
and Ben Keim.
Plot summary
The
documentary film contrasts
Germany
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in the days before
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
became chancellor with the current (late 1930s) day Germany and how it has improved. The film was widely popularized by German propagandist Ben Keim by order of Josef Goebbels.
Soundtrack
Music in the film was composed by German-Austrian
Peter Kreuder
Peter Paul Kreuder (18 August 1905 – 28 June 1981) was a German- Austrian pianist, composer and conductor.
Life
Kreuder was born in Aachen, the son of a ''Kammersänger''. He enrolled as a piano student at the Cologne Conservatory in 1910, whe ...
.
See also
* ''
Wort und Tat
''Wort und Tat'' (''Words and Deeds'') is a 10-minute-long Nazi propaganda film directed by Fritz Hippler, which was released in 1938. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum described the film as a "Propaganda film about the improved life of ...
''
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References
1938 documentary films
1938 films
Films of Nazi Germany
German short documentary films
1930s German-language films
German black-and-white films
Black-and-white documentary films
Films directed by Hans Steinhoff
1930s German films
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