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at 10 Apr 2006: 12:08

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3120097557830667999

I can't believe how crappy this is. I skipped through some parts just because it is so boring, it's no wonder they put no credits on it.

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Ras_bunny at 10 Apr 2006: 12:21

Nice!  XD  You gotta love how military propaganda knew no limits back then,  using friggin cartoon characters an stuff.  LOL  Just beautiful. 

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at 10 Apr 2006: 16:34

I love this.  It always a beautiful thing to see a cartoon character doing or saying something it isn't supposed to or doing something out of character. I lmfao when I heard Donald duck say "heil Hitler". I especailly love this because I hate disney and this is the type of stuff that proves that Disney wasn't always lolipops, smiles and fun.

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at 10 Apr 2006: 17:42

It's a crappy bootleg copy of an Oscar winning 1943 cartoon with the credits cut off. The real thing is on the Disney Treasures "On the Front Lines" DVD set.

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Raven at 10 Apr 2006: 18:08

I'm not sure if I'd call this propaganda. More of a satire on propaganda, as well as a moral booster (the Nazi party is almost synonymous with propaganda). It was very popular during the war, to go to the cinemas and see both a news reel on the progress of the war, as well as animated dramatizations meant to be a morale booster.

You have to consider the times. People were scared. They were troubled. These were hard and difficult times, with a war that was threatening to tear the entire world apart. A lot was at stake. Cartoon characters were there to show these events in a different light, to entertain, and at the same time, console and raise the spirits of both the service men and the civilians.

The only thing that somewhat irks me are the racial caricatures at the beginning of the short. However, they're fairly prevalent even today, in shows like Cartoon Network's "Minoriteam."

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at 10 Apr 2006: 19:30

There's another one here...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2857278388843745235

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at 10 Apr 2006: 19:56

It's only propaganda if the enemy produced it. If your own country produced it, then it's "patriotism".

And a Japanese rubbing elbows with Nazis? It kind of contradicts the "master race" thing, doesn't it.

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at 11 Apr 2006: 01:28

>>7
Yeah, but they wanted people to hate the Japanese too.  Only hating the germans was half the battle. ^_^

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Laowin at 11 Apr 2006: 02:02

Actually Hitler admired the Japanese and their efficiency and war-waging skills, he called them "Yellow Aryans"
They were rather buddy-buddy with Hitler.

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at 11 Apr 2006: 02:15

>>9

That was real life Hitler.  I think we're talking about "Doody Head" Hitler as portrayed in the cartoon. :)

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Laowin at 11 Apr 2006: 02:26

>>10
Shhhhh. I'm trying to show off my 'massive' knowledge of History 12.

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at 11 Apr 2006: 03:50

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>>7
Remember people it was called "the axis of evil" back then to just like it is called the "axis of evil" now. The only difference is back the the axis consisted of Germany,Italy and Japan. Now it is Iran, N. Korea and formally Iraq/Where ever Osama lived at.

Even thought Disney never really made "propaganda" they did make the other one with was I think called "A life of death" or something like that which featured a German boy and the nararater would talk about what would happen and what was happening. I thought the funniest part of that was when he was in school and he felt sorry for rabbit and was punished for it. Then after words he was all "I hate the rabit, it deserved its death!"

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at 11 Apr 2006: 21:09

"Education for Death" wherein the boy is taught Aryan propaganda in order to be a proper nazi. I'ts Disney's counter-propaganda film, and emotionally pretty strong stuff.

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kai#oYghx6mQzU at 11 Apr 2006: 21:30

that was hilarios...

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Anonymous#ns1dgrrSJ. at 12 Apr 2006: 16:53

Gah! Dangit. Okay, out of curiosity I went and actually looked up the definition of propaganda, and I was way off. I thought that propaganda was a kind of attempt to educate people from a single point of view, often extremist in nature. Turns out the word for that is indoctrination. Propaganda's bigger, and it's basically... well here.

#1 The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
#2 Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Propaganda

Not trying to cut anyone here, but I had a response typed up that would have been a whole lot of egg on my face, so I hope this helps someone else dodge that bullet too. ^_^;;

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at 13 Apr 2006: 03:57

I always prefered Daffy's, myself.
"Methersphchmits!!!! A whole meth of methersphchmits!"

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Juberu at 13 Apr 2006: 22:02

One, that was hilarious.
Two, the first thing I thought was "Don't mess with Donald!"
>>16
*snicker*

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Juberu at 13 Apr 2006: 22:02

One, that was hilarious.
Two, the first thing I thought was "Don't mess with Donald!"
>>16
*snicker*

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Juberu at 13 Apr 2006: 22:02

One, that was hilarious.
Two, the first thing I thought was "Don't mess with Donald!"
>>16
*snicker*

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