Carl Peters

Carl Peters(1941)

03/21/1941 (US)History, Drama1h 50m
5.0

Overview

National-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900′s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.

Herbert Selpin

Director

Walter Zerlett-Olfenius

Writer

Herbert Selpin

Writer

Ernst von Salomon

Writer