Hitler's Children - Education for Death

[bigfootedfred]

Old production, very intresting however.

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Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi is an animated short film produced by Walt Disney and released on January 15, 1943 by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Clyde Geronimi and principally animated by Ward Kimball. The short is based on the non-fiction book of the same name (ISBN 0-374-98905-2) by American author Gregor Ziemer. The cover of that book appears as the short's title card.

The film features the story of Little Hans, a German boy born and raised in Nazi Germany, who is educated to become a merciless soldier.
At the beginning of the film, a German couple prove to a Nazi supreme judge that they are of pure Aryan blood and agree to give their son, whom they name Hans at the approval of the judge, into the service of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. They are given a copy of "Germany's bestseller," Mein Kampf by the judge as a reward for their service to Hitler. There then follows the only extended comical section of the cartoon, the tone of which is very light compared to the rest of the film. The audience is told that as Hans grows, he hears a distorted version of Sleeping Beauty depicting Hitler as the knight in shining armor rescuing Sleeping Beauty, a huge obese Valkyrie representing Germany, from a wicked witch, representing Democracy. Thanks to this kind of distorted children's story, Hans becomes greatly fascinated with Hitler as he and the rest of the younger members of the Hitler Youth give a portrait of Hitler dressed as a knight the Hitler salute.
In the following segment the audience sees Hans sick and bedridden. His mother prays for him, knowing it will only be a matter of time before the authorities come and take him away to serve Hitler, a Nazi officer bangs on the door to take Hans away, but his mother says he is sick and needs care. The officer orders her to heal her son quickly and have him ready to leave, implying if Hans does not get well, he will be euthanized. He orders her not to do anything more to him that will cause him to lose heart and be weak, explaining that a soldier must show no emotion, mercy, or feelings whatsoever. Hans eventually recovers and resumes his "education" in a school classroom, where Hans and the rest of his classmates, after giving portraits of Hitler, Göring, and Goebbels the Hitler salute, watch as the teacher draws a cartoon on the blackboard of a rabbit being eaten by a fox, prompting Hans to feel sorry for the rabbit. The teacher, furious over the remark, orders Hans to sit in the corner wearing a dunce cap. As Hans sits in the corner as punishment, he hears the rest of the classmates "correctly" interpret the cartoon as "weakness has no place in a soldier" and "the strong shall rule the weak". This sparks Hans to recant his remark, and agrees that the weak must be destroyed.
Hans then takes part in a book-burning crusade, burning any books that oppose Hitler, replacing the Holy Bible with Mein Kampf and the crucifix with a Nazi sword, and burning a Catholic Church. Hans then spends the next several years "Marching and heiling, heiling and marching!" until he reaches his teens still "marching and heiling" until he becomes the "Good Nazi" embroiled in hatred towards anyone else who opposes Hitler, "sees nothing but what the party wants him to see, says nothing but what the party wants him to say, and he does no more than the party wants him to do."
In the end, Hans and the rest of the soldiers march off to war only to fade into rows of graves. Thus Hans's education is complete. "The education... for death."

[Enemy of the State]

Interesting indeed, but ironic, considering this is a propaganda video itself.

[bigfootedfred]

Interesting indeed, but ironic, considering this is a propaganda video itself.

Get things in my inbox, this was one of them.
The general message of the peice is the germans are indroctinating the youth, while at the same time doing essentially the same thing.

Theres one ive been looking for by Diseny that i havent been able to find, saw it years ago, had Stalin portrayed as this kind of, fat jolly uncle type.

[Enemy of the State]

Theres one ive been looking for by Diseny that i havent been able to find, saw it years ago, had Stalin portrayed as this kind of, fat jolly uncle type.

I'm not sure this is it, but similar. Disney was nothing but a propaganda machine during the war. Rather hypocritical, not nearly as bad as the German propaganda machine, but still.

[Lord Tomyris]

Roflmao seen these both before, so proud!

But what about this, starring our very own Donald Duck:

[Dr. Croccer]

I'm not sure this is it, but similar. Disney was nothing but a propaganda machine during the war. Rather hypocritical, not nearly as bad as the German propaganda machine, but still.

Even more curious because Disney himself was a fervent anti-Communist and supposedly had sympathies for the Nazis.

[Dr. Croccer]

05.35

Herr Goebbels is watching you :wub:.

[Bovril]

Whilst this video is a little...sensational, it stillmakes me wonder what German intellectual and cultural life would have been like if the Nazis had remained in power for half a century.

[Pickle_mole]

Whilst this video is a little...sensational, it stillmakes me wonder what German intellectual and cultural life would have been like if the Nazis had remained in power for half a century.

I would be very interesting

[Bovril]

The Japanese got the disney treatment as well:

[manofarms89]

notice how the ones against Germany make fun of the Nazi ideals, while the one aginst Japan was more against the Japanese ethnicity.

[Dr. Croccer]

notice how the ones against Germany make fun of the Nazi ideals, while the one aginst Japan was more against the Japanese ethnicity.

That correlates with the fact that many Japanese-Americans were interned, including women and children.

A lot of Americans were German or of German descent, the majority in fact, so mocking German ethnicity wouldn't be too welcome. It was rare in the US in both WWII and WWI but anti-German hatred based on ethnicity was massive in Britain and France, mainly in WWI, to the point where they started wrecking German shops and removed banners from the Teutonic knights from the chapels and ''German Sheppards'' being called ''Alsatians'', to make them sound less German.

[Lord Tomyris]

That correlates with the fact that many Japanese-Americans were interned, including women and children.

A lot of Americans were German or of German descent, the majority in fact, so mocking German ethnicity wouldn't be too welcome. It was rare in the US in both WWII and WWI but anti-German hatred based on ethnicity was massive in Britain and France, mainly in WWI, to the point where they started wrecking German shops and removed banners from the Teutonic knights from the chapels and ''German Sheppards'' being called ''Alsatians'', to make them sound less German.

Hehe, and of course renaming the Royal Family to 'Windsor' from 'Saxe-Coburg Gotha'!

[Deep_Red]

Hehe, and of course renaming the Royal Family to 'Windsor' from 'Saxe-Coburg Gotha'!

Which is still funny!
The Germans themselves have been ruled by Austrians for long, so...^^

[Ältester der Motten]

Which is still funny!
The Germans themselves have been ruled by Austrians for long, so...^^

This has never been the case. Ever since the German nation existed (which isn't quite so long), it has been ruled/ administrated by Germans, and of course Americans*, English, French & Russians for a while.

To consider Austrians as a completely separate nation is a rather new idea, and I would ask you to consider this.



*This was a very good thing to happen.

[Stavroforos]

They kindasorta mock the Germans because of their tough sounding language it seems, but that's about it.

Funny stuff. Also funny how I could think of a few people on these boards who would fit well into that classroom.

[Aldgarkalaughskel]

Old production, very intresting however.

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Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi is an animated short film produced by Walt Disney and released on January 15, 1943 by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Clyde Geronimi and principally animated by Ward Kimball. The short is based on the non-fiction book of the same name (ISBN 0-374-98905-2) by American author Gregor Ziemer. The cover of that book appears as the short's title card.

The film features the story of Little Hans, a German boy born and raised in Nazi Germany, who is educated to become a merciless soldier.
At the beginning of the film, a German couple prove to a Nazi supreme judge that they are of pure Aryan blood and agree to give their son, whom they name Hans at the approval of the judge, into the service of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. They are given a copy of "Germany's bestseller," Mein Kampf by the judge as a reward for their service to Hitler. There then follows the only extended comical section of the cartoon, the tone of which is very light compared to the rest of the film. The audience is told that as Hans grows, he hears a distorted version of Sleeping Beauty depicting Hitler as the knight in shining armor rescuing Sleeping Beauty, a huge obese Valkyrie representing Germany, from a wicked witch, representing Democracy. Thanks to this kind of distorted children's story, Hans becomes greatly fascinated with Hitler as he and the rest of the younger members of the Hitler Youth give a portrait of Hitler dressed as a knight the Hitler salute.
In the following segment the audience sees Hans sick and bedridden. His mother prays for him, knowing it will only be a matter of time before the authorities come and take him away to serve Hitler, a Nazi officer bangs on the door to take Hans away, but his mother says he is sick and needs care. The officer orders her to heal her son quickly and have him ready to leave, implying if Hans does not get well, he will be euthanized. He orders her not to do anything more to him that will cause him to lose heart and be weak, explaining that a soldier must show no emotion, mercy, or feelings whatsoever. Hans eventually recovers and resumes his "education" in a school classroom, where Hans and the rest of his classmates, after giving portraits of Hitler, Göring, and Goebbels the Hitler salute, watch as the teacher draws a cartoon on the blackboard of a rabbit being eaten by a fox, prompting Hans to feel sorry for the rabbit. The teacher, furious over the remark, orders Hans to sit in the corner wearing a dunce cap. As Hans sits in the corner as punishment, he hears the rest of the classmates "correctly" interpret the cartoon as "weakness has no place in a soldier" and "the strong shall rule the weak". This sparks Hans to recant his remark, and agrees that the weak must be destroyed.
Hans then takes part in a book-burning crusade, burning any books that oppose Hitler, replacing the Holy Bible with Mein Kampf and the crucifix with a Nazi sword, and burning a Catholic Church. Hans then spends the next several years "Marching and heiling, heiling and marching!" until he reaches his teens still "marching and heiling" until he becomes the "Good Nazi" embroiled in hatred towards anyone else who opposes Hitler, "sees nothing but what the party wants him to see, says nothing but what the party wants him to say, and he does no more than the party wants him to do."
In the end, Hans and the rest of the soldiers march off to war only to fade into rows of graves. Thus Hans's education is complete. "The education... for death."

This is a very retarded propaganda video that shows a genuine lack of knowledge about Nazi Germany.

[manofarms89]

This is a very retarded propaganda video that shows a genuine lack of knowledge about Nazi Germany.

since when did propaganda equal knowledge?

[Kogen]

since when did propaganda equal knowledge?

'Propaganda' means to distribute political information. It can be entirely fact or otherwise. It is like saying "since when did a book equal knowledge?'. I would suggest you get a dictionary.

As for the video... it is obviously wrong. These were used to get American children to hate their enemies. It is not different than the message they are trying to show people.

[Stavroforos]

'Propaganda' means to distribute political information. It can be entirely fact or otherwise. It is like saying "since when did a book equal knowledge?'. I would suggest you get a dictionary.

As for the video... it is obviously wrong. These were used to get American children to hate their enemies. It is not different than the message they are trying to show people.

Yeah, "Germans don't believe in democracy and make out with fat chicks" is the same message as "You are the only race capable of leading the world, and all other races are our slaves."