Education for Death

Education for Death The Making of the Nazi is an animated propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released on January 15, 1943, by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by Clyde Geronimi and principally animated by Ward Kimball. The short is based on the nonfiction book of the same name by American author Gregor Ziemer.

At the beginning of the film, a German couple proves to a Nazi supreme judge that they are of pure Aryan blood and agree to give their son, whom they name Hans at the judges approval, into the service of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. They are given a copy of Mein Kampf by the judge as a reward for their service to Hitler their passport contains spaces formore children a hint that the couple is expected to produce a large family for the Fatherland.This is followed by 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 up, he hears a distorted version of Sleeping Beauty depicting Hitler as the knight in shining armor rescuing Sleeping Beauty, an obese Valkyrie representing Germany, from a wicked witch who may be Maleficent representing democracy. The narrator sarcastically comments that the moral of this story seems to be that Hitler got Germany on her feet, climbed onto the saddle, and took her for a ride. Thanks to this kind of distorted childrens story, Hans becomes fascinated with Hitler as he and the rest of the younger members of the Hitler Youth give a portrait of him dressed as a knight the Hitler salute. ........

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