This was released in 1953, eight years after the war ended.
As I watched happy Germans dancing in a 'local wine garden'; I couldn't help but think of the effect it may have had on American veterans, or their widows, orphans and relatives in the audience when this was unexpectedly sprung on them,
Of the more than 16 million Americans who served, 2 million served in Europe, of which there were 552,117 U.S. casualties in the European theater of operations. Of those, 104,812 were killed in action.
I believe this would have brought back too many bad memories to too many people in the audience, and was ill-advised.
Review of In the Valley of the Rhine
