Monday, March 09, 2020

If Day In Winnipeg (1942)

In an attempt to encourage Canadians to fund the World War 2 Victory Loan Program the government made this film showing what life would be like if the city of Winnipeg were to come under the grinding heel of Nazism for a day.
"The local paper, the Winnipeg Tribune, becomes Das Winnipeger Lugenblatt. Nazi troops pull people from tables in a canteen and sit in their places.  A church is closed and a priest arrested; a sign is nailed to the door forbidding religious services there. Nazi soldiers enter a school classroom, take away a nun teacher and wipe words of democracy off the blackboard."



Thanks Bruce!

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