The important role of cinema in the Nazi era seems a natural preoccupation of German filmmakers today; in Images of Germany, directors Bitomsky and Mühlenbrock examine the German Kulturfilme, short subjects which accompanied every feature screening in German cinemas between 1933 and 1945. Specifically designed to edify and inspire the populace on the proper attitude toward a variety of subjects ranging from sports, to work, to race, these Kulturfilme were shot and edited with astounding skill to camouflage propaganda in the poetry of suggestion, movement, and repetition. In the 1930s they carried such optimistic monikers as "We Have No Problems" and "Holiday Fun"; by 1944, more revealing titles such as "The Will to Live" were characteristic. From their incisive compilation of Kulturfilme, Bitomsky and Mühlenbrock extract a shrewd analysis of the Third Reich and its "plebiscite in reverse--a vote of confidence by the government in the people." They allow the films to speak not for, but against themselves, "like agents going over to the other side."