GREAT WAR HORRORS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 April 1927, Page 5

GREAT WAR HORRORS.

REVEALED TO GERMANS. A REMARKABLE FILM. . / ' Press Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyright. BERLIN, Monday. One of the most" amazing films ever produced, initially screened here tonight, created a great sensation. It is Germany’s official film of the history of the war, covering twenty reels. It consists of actual wartime films taken at tlie various battle fronts by Germany’s best and bravest kinematographers. The film has been assembled in a manner presenting war as a continuous comprehensive story, as written in the hearts and minds of the German people. It reviews the war as they knew and saw it. It suggests that Germany regarded the war as inevitable, and slurs over the invasion of Belgium as nothing to which -Germany’s ex-enemies could take exception. It reveals men being slaughtered like flics, and shows the actual British and French shells bursting in crowded German trenches. The picture shows the agonised faces of actual troops under bombardment. Distraught eyes and open mouths tell their own vivid story. Dim forms are seen writhing, twisting and scarred on the ground. Only piles of corpses lie still. The camera has caught . the -screaming figure of -a man who obviously has lost his reason. -His comrades are seen to seize him and haul him out of the camera’s range. Another singularly vivid picture reveals a soldier, unable to face machine gun fire, throwing himself on the ground, tearing up the earth in a frantic endeavour to find cover for his head. None of these films had previously been seen by the German people. Early mobilisation scenes in London, Paris, St. Petersburg and Yienna, and other centres, are included. Hindenburg and Ludendorff are seen planning the remarkable campaign which resulted in the debacle of T-an-nenberg. Miles of Russian prisoners are shown on the screen. The general effect of the film is to leave the impression that it is the most tremendous argument that could be conceived for the. abolition of war.