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...become a commonplace. Some of us have seen "Blitzkrieg in Westen," and think we know how crushing modern warfare can be. Others have read the newspapers, listened to radio dispatches, viewed the newsreels, and followed every development from crisis to crisis. We are mentally prepared for any eventuality, and whatever occurs will come as no surprise...
Blitzkrieg im Westen, which was offered by the Harvard Liberal Union to a jam-packed New Lecture Hall last night, is significant for the cleverly unpolished effect which camouflages its propaganda. It contains none of the gilt-edged-super-collossal-stupendous-gargantuan approach that Hollywood has geared the American public (and even the Harvard student) to lap up. It would have been much more comforting to the wide-eyed undergraduate if this film had been a faked plug for the Hitler machine. We could have laughed at the gum-drop exploits of some Nazi Robert Taylor. But the swift, systematic...
...danger is that undergraduates who were pumped by Blitzkrieg im Westen will carry away with them, not a calm realization of Germany's grip on the continent, but an abstract fear of Hitler and the forces that are at his command. It is successful propaganda only if it makes us want to turn and run. It boomerangs against Hitler if it makes us realize something of the undramatic, thorough, machine-against-machine character of modern warfare. Preparation against the blitzkrieg, not a paralysis-through-fear, is the lesson we must draw from this film...
Twenty men died making it and government officials all over the world have lost their appetite seeing it, but the Liberal Union nevertheless predicts a full house in the New Lecture Hall for the free showing at 7:30 o'clock tonight of "Blitzkrieg Im Westen...
Filmed by special motion picture photographers in the German army, the movie shows Nazi infantry, tanks, guns and planes smashing all resistance in their blitz conquest of Holland, France, and Belgium. "Blitzkrieg Im Westen" is the sequel to the first spine-chiller, "Baptism of Fire," which came out soon after the invasion of Poland...