ABSTRACT
The commentator proudly announced that the Hitler Youth was bending its back to clear away the snow. According to some reports, people consider the extended format to be more successful in that it allows for greater flexibility. Witness the following response, reported in the same SD Report, to the anti-Semitic campaign being whipped up by Goebbels at this time: The pictures showing the arrest of Jews involved in murder were enthusiastically received, and people commented that they were still being treated too leniently. Nazi authorities increasingly began to take the newsreel more seriously even as the propaganda aims of the RMVP became well defined. Throughout 1939 the newsreels had continued in this vein, attempting to prepare the nation psychologically for the coming war by increasing their emphasis on military subjects. In the spring of 1939 they reported on the war in Spain and took great delight in recording the exploits of the Condor Legion.
