A propaganda piece about the occupation of post-Nazi Germany and what led to WWII.A propaganda piece about the occupation of post-Nazi Germany and what led to WWII.A propaganda piece about the occupation of post-Nazi Germany and what led to WWII.
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- TriviaA number of sentences from the narration of this movie were sampled in the 1987 single "Don't Argue" by Cabaret Voltaire.
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Narrator: Don't let it fool you. You are in enemy country. Be alert. Suspicious of everyone. Take no chances.
Narrator: The German lust for conquest is not dead. It's merely gone undercover.
Narrator: Guard particularly against this group. These are the most dangerous: German youth.
Narrator: They were brought up on straight propaganda.
Narrator: Don't argue with them. Don't try to change their point of view.
Narrator: You will not argue with them. You will not be friendly. You will be aloof. Watchful and suspicious. Every German is a potential source of trouble.
Narrator: They cannot come back into the civilized fold just by sticking out their hand and saying, "I'm sorry". Don't clasp that hand. It's not the kind of a hand you can clasp in friendship.
Narrator: Trust none of them. Some day the German people might be cured of their disease: the super-race disease, the world-conquest disease. But they must prove that they have been cured, beyond the shadow of a doubt, before they ever again are allowed to take their place among respectable nations.
- ConnectionsEdited into Hitler Lives (1945)
Dr Seuss's script shows a far uglier side to his persona than the cat in the hat. The film is essentially a crass (though I fear successful) attempt to entrench racist ideas about Germany in the American soldiers sent after Germany's WWII defeat. Germans are portrayed as inherently evil human beings. American Soldiers are warned to be on their guard that those wily Germans are likely to slap their lederhosen and drink beer and be merry in the hope that their essential evil and cruelty might go unnoticed. The audience is left in no doubt that to fraternise with a German is to succumb to the trickery of the most irredeemable despicable evil that human nature could offer. Nazism is not political but an inevitability of the German race.
Watch this film and think about Muslim fundamentalists on TV. Or think about the Grinch.
- davidhawkey
- Apr 2, 2004
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- Runtime13 minutes
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