 Similar support therefore was fomented with the use of film to depict Baltic and Volga Germans as persecuted by the Bolshevists, such as the films "Frisians in Peril", "Flüchtlinge", and "The Red Terror".The creation of the film was based on pictures by the artist Otto Engelhardt-Kyffhäuser, who in January 1940, on Heinrich Himmler's orders, took numerous sketches when he accompanied a trek of resettlers from Volhynia.The indoor shots ran from 2 January to the middle of July 1941 in the Wien-Film studios at the "Rosenhügel" in Liesing, at Sievering Studios and the Schönbrunn Palace gardens in Vienna.