This is an entry in a year-long project to post-blog the demobilisation experience for British servicemen at the end of the Second World War. See here for an introduction to the project and here for a brief overview of the demobilisation process.
A Defeated People, the celebrated documentary-maker Humphrey Jennings' new film about conditions in occupied Germany, is reviewed by the Times today in advance of its release in London on Sunday. The paper's views are mixed. "The camera is eloquent and discriminating, and imagination is made the richer by the scenes which show Germans storming the trucks of a train and by the director's insistence on the vast number of people in the British zone who are looking for friends and relatives or who are themselves lost ... there is much that is admirable about A Defeated People and it bursts with good intentions, but, while it makes a parade of answering questions, it really does not do much more more than pose them, and a film of its quality might have found more original symbols than destroyed armaments factories on the one hand and dancing children on another ..."
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