When she realizes how the capital of the great industry magnates had caused the war in the first place, Guste resigns and begins cleaning houses for a living.
[5] Although the censors did criticize several points in the plot, like presenting the Proletariate worker Paul as rather passive, Maetzig and Waterstradt refused to make any amendments.
[6] The director also told he was influenced by Bertolt Brecht's disapproval from his last picture, Marriage in the Shadows, which the latter described as "utter kitsch", and wished to avoid making an overly didactic movie.
[9] Film scholars Miera and Antonin Liehm considered the ending of Girls in Gingham as "schematic", claiming that it foreshadowed the propagandistic style of his next work, The Council of the Gods.
[15] Sabine Hake noted that while doing so in moderate style, the picture certainly promoted a Socialist message;[16] Michael Geyer argued that it portrayed the Marxist-Leninist interpretation of German history, explaining the great events of the 20th century in this fashion.