Hitlerjunge Quex (film)

Hitlerjunge Quex Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend Hitler Youth Quex is a 1933 German film directed by Hans Steinhoff, based on the 1932 novel Hitler Youth Quex Hitlerjunge Quex. The film was shown in the US under the title Our Flag Leads Us Forward.

The Hitler Youth are working together to make fires and cook a hot dinner. They sing patriotic songs, listen to speeches, and shout in unison their support for an awakened Germany. There is no smoking or drinking. In the morning they awake early and run to the lake for a beforebreakfast communal swim. Health, cleanliness, teamwork and patriotic nationalism is the image projected.When Quex returns to his home singing one of the Hitler youth songs, his father, an ardent Communist, beats him and signs him up to become a member of the Communist Party. However, Quex informs the Hitler Youth that the Young Communists are planning to ambush them during a march using guns and dynamite. He becomes a pariah to the Communists, and a hero to the Hitler Youth. His distraught mother tries to kill her son and herself by extinguishing the pilot light and leaving the gas on in their one room apartment at night. She is killed. Quex survives. His father, crushed by what happened, begins to wonder whether his son is right National Socialism may be better for Germany than Communism. ........

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