The Red Terror (German: GPU) is a 1942 Nazi propaganda[1] film directed by Karl Ritter.
[2] Olga Feodorovna, a Baltic German, saw her family massacred by the GPU.
Joseph Goebbels ordered UFA GmbH to start production on four anti-Soviet films in 1941.
Andrews Engelmann came up with the idea for The Red Terror and wrote the script with Karl Ritter and Felix Lützkendorf.
[5] The film was approved by the censors on 17 July 1942, and premiered in Berlin on 14 August.