Uncle Krüger

This is a propaganda film made in Nazi Germany. It was produced in 1941 for Joseph Goebbels and his ministry. Its subject is the South African politician Paul Kruger. The film follows his struggle against the British and his defeat at the end of it. The Boer War is the ground it stands on. History is not really what it is after. Britain at that moment was the one enemy Germany still faced. The British are drawn as monsters from beginning to end. Queen Victoria is shown with a drink in her hand. Cecil Rhodes is a schemer. An officer made up to look like Winston Churchill runs a concentration camp. A massacre in that camp is the ending. Anyone watching now should keep in mind whose hands made those scenes. It was the most expensive German production up to that date. Emil Jannings and Werner Hinz appear in the hundred and thirty five minute film, a German production Hans Steinhoff finished in 1941.