Carl Peters is a 1941 German historical drama film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Hans Albers, Karl Dannemann, and Fritz Odemar.

[3] The parliamentarians, who are all depicted as Jews,[4] refuse to accept this explanation, demonstrating the alleged dangers of democracy, constitutional monarchy, and all other political systems in which the Fuhrer principle is ignored.

[5] This film is intended to provoke renewed anger over the Versailles Treaty: as the Kaiser's German colonial empire, the third largest in existence at the time, had been divided up between the victorious Allies after World War I.

Ironically, though, the British colonial officials are depicted far more sympathetically than the civil service and elected politicians of the German Empire, who fired Carl Peters.

Back in Berlin, however, Peters must answer to the German people's elected representatives in the Reichstag and to respond to accusations of brutality by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).