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Related: About this forumHitler's Children Disney Education For Death Cartoon (1943)
(From YouTube) "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 by American author Gregor Ziemer.
Notice the parallels between "the making of a Nazi" and right-wing/conservative Republican/Teabagger beliefs today.
Some observations:
1. Birth certificate proving the baby is pure Aryan. Sound familiar? Substitute American for Aryan and apply to voter I.D. and President's birth certificate.
2. Couple wants to name their son Hans A verboten list of names is checked. Sound familiar? Remember what Teapublicans said about "Barack Hussein?
3. Wicked witch threatens sleeping princess who is saved by prince. Wicked witch is democracy, princess becomes Germany, and the prince is Hitler. Sound familiar? Just substitute prince with Citizens United, and princess with America.
4. Mother is worried about sick child because of the oppression of the unfit Sound familiar? Replace rabbit with poor people, unemployed, immigrants, homeless, etc. (see Lesson in "natural history"
Lesson in natural history (543)
Overview--
Rabbit is devoured by wolf. Boys empathy favors the poor rabbit. Teacher and class are shocked. The lesson is reinforced:
1. World belongs to the strong and the brutal
2. Rabbit is a coward and deserves to die.
3. No room for weaklings
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Hitler's Children Disney Education For Death Cartoon (1943) (Original Post)
KansDem
Sep 2012
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formercia
(18,479 posts)1. And Mittens gets upset when we call them Nazis
Gott mit Uns =God is with us.
dembotoz
(16,856 posts)2. wow--thanks for posting
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)3. Thanks for posting
this has many applications in today's world
and-justice-for-all
(14,765 posts)4. Not surprising coming that anitsemite Disney..nt
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)5. K&R - The similarities are striking, but we've known that for a long time.