A squad of police officers break into a thatched hovel and evict the family, throwing a young child to the floor.

As the son of an infamous Irish nationalist, he has been educated at St Edwards College, a school run by British teachers.

[1] In this film, as in Der Fuchs von Glenarvon, the British are depicted as brutal and unscrupulous but no match for the "earthy" Irish race.

[6] A British officer, for instance, abandons an Irish sergeant on the battlefield, taking the last water bottle with him, and is later shown winning a VC.

[7] It lacks, however, the cruder propaganda of later films, such as Carl Peters and Ohm Krüger, when Hitler had given up hope of making peace with Great Britain.