Carl Peters (1941)

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.

Released March 21, 1941 110 min None+

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Keywords: imdb.carl-peters, imdb.19th-century, imdb.german-east-africa, imdb.german-colony, imdb.explorer, imdb.anti-semitic-slur, imdb.propaganda-film + 9 more, imdb.nazi, imdb.tanganyika, imdb.colonialism, imdb.1800s, imdb.africa, imdb.tanzania, imdb.character-name-in-title, imdb.german-overseas, imdb.anti-british