 Nazi rabble rousers stormed screenings of the film in Germany, often  releasing rats or stink bombs into the theaters, as the wounds of  defeat in the First World War still ran deep. This led to the film  ultimately being banned by the Nazi party. It wouldnt receive  proper screenings in Germany until 1956, though it did play to  packed houses in 1930 in neighboring Switzerland, France and the  Netherlands with special trains and buses being laid on to transport  Germans to screenings.