Gestern und heute

{{short description|1938 film}}

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| director = Hans Steinhoff

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| music = Peter Kreuder

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| runtime = 11 minutes

| country = Nazi Germany

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Gestern und heute (English: Yesterday and Today) is a 1938 German Nazi propaganda short film directed by Hans Steinhoff and Ben Keim at the Reichspropagandaleitung.

Plot summary

The documentary film contrasts Germany in the days before Adolf Hitler 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.{{cite web|title=Gestern und heute (1938)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247377/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_8|website=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=24 June 2014}}

Soundtrack

Music in the film was composed by German-Austrian Peter Kreuder.

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