“Tran and Helle”- German Propaganda Short about Drinking during Wartime - December 1939 скачать в хорошем качестве

“Tran and Helle”- German Propaganda Short about Drinking during Wartime - December 1939

Tran and Helle was a popular series of propganda shorts in Nazi Germany, aired from October 1939 onwards. The shorts always followed the same basic script: Tran, played by actor Ludwig Schmitz (1884-1954) was portrayed as a gullible, easy to fool character, who would regularly believe British propaganda, while Helle was portrayed as a "good German" who would regulary explain the "truth" (in the Nazi propaganda sense) to Tran. The shorts were only a few minutes long and were usually played in front of newsreels or movies. The series was stopped in Autumn 1940, because it was getting extremely popular and the Nazis feared people could identify with Tran and his anti-Nazi views. This episode from December 1939 deals with the topic of drinking alcohol during wartime. Tran wakes up in a prison cell; not remembering how he got there. He then got a visit from Helle, who told him about all of his drunk shenanigans from last night, and cautioned him to be careful with drinking too much, especially during wartime. - Subtitles made by me.