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Ohm Krger English Uncle Krger is a 1941 German biographical film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Lucie Hflich and Werner Hinz. It was one of a series of propaganda films produced in Nazi Germany attacking the British. The film depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the British during the Boer War.

The film opens with a dying Paul Krger Emil Jannings speaking about his life to his nurse in a Geneva hotel. The rest of the film is told in flashback.Cecil Rhodes Ferdinand Marian has a great desire to acquire land in the region of the Boers for its gold deposits. He sends Dr Jameson Karl Haubenreier there to provoke border disturbances, and secures support from Joseph Chamberlain Gustaf Grndgens. When Chamberlain seeks the support of Queen Victoria Hedwig Wangel and her son Edward, Prince of Wales Alfred Bernau, she initially refuses but changes her mind when informed of the gold in the region. She invites Paul Krger to London, and believes she is tricking him into signing a treaty. ........

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