Review of Glimpses of Western Germany

. . . but there's precious little of that on display in GLIMPSES OF WESTERN GERMANY. By the time that this travel short was filmed, "I-Like-Ike" had been elected the U.S. President as a reward for starving to death about a million German P.O.W.s in retaliation for their having given his American troops so much trouble during World War Two, according to Wikipedia. However, the clowns behind GLIMPSES manage to aim their cameras away from all of these Death Camps. We never learn whether U.S. Taxpayers sprung for a million grave makers (and the translators necessary to commemorate these Gentlemen of Genocide in their own lingo), or if Ike economized by recycling the S.S. ovens. (There's an old saying in Kansas that "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the Fuehrer.") If the contemporary audiences watching this travelogue were thinking of traipsing over to Germany, they surely would have been more interested in touring the site of "Mr. Hitler's" barbecue pit (or Ike's liquidation pens) than in some rhino at the Hamburg Zoo or mannequins "dancing" within a Munich clock tower.