COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“MEIN KAMPF—MY CRIMES.” Sober facts are the basis’ of one of the most enthralling films even screened —“Mein Kampf—My Crimes,” which .will be shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre. Its parade of the facts of the rise of Adolf Hitler makes a film that outstrips all known tragedies. Side by side with the march of a bloody history, one sees the personal side of Nazism in Roehm’s hysterical outburst when he is offered suicide to murder as his means of removal from the party, and again in a tensely dramatic scene of an army officer betrayed. by his own son to the Gestapo for expressing his disapproval of the Russian pact. There are scenes smuggled out of Germany of the Jewish persecution, smashed and daubed shop fronts, burning synagogues, a reconstruction of the sacking of Cardinal Innitzer’s house that illuminate starkly the hooliganism that Hitler fostered “as a spontaneous expression of popular feeling.” Hate, cruelty, oppression, the parade can only head one way —to war. The film ends with an impressive picture of the Allied war machine which is now ranged in the effort to rid Europe of the horrors to which this amazing film bears witness. The associate feature is “Grandpa Goes to Town,” which is a film of tremendous power, and which provides entertainment of a very high class standard.