A young German boy is indoctrinated into conforming with the Nazi social mindset.A young German boy is indoctrinated into conforming with the Nazi social mindset.A young German boy is indoctrinated into conforming with the Nazi social mindset.
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- Germania
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- Father
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- German Mother
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- Adolf Hitler
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- Democracy the Witch
- (archive sound)
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- German Boy
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- German Boy
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- German Boy
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- Little Hans
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- German Boy
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- Magistrate
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- Director
- Clyde Geronimi(uncredited)
- Writers
- Gregor Ziemer
- Joe Grant(uncredited)
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- TriviaAlong with Der Fuehrer's Face (1942) Disney once said that this film will never be released again in any format. However, both films have been released on a DVD set chronicling the studio's WWII films in 2004.
- Quotes
[last lines]
[the Hitler Youth boys march in formation]
Narrator: Marching and heiling, heiling and marching, Hans grows up. In him is planted no seed of hope, laughter, tolerance or mercy.
[the boys morph into teenage brown-shirts]
Narrator: For him, only marching and heiling, heiling and marching as the years grind on.
[the brown-shirts become armed German soldiers]
Narrator: Manhood finds him still heiling and marching. But the grim years of regimentation have done their work; now he's a good Nazi. He sees nothing but what the party wants him to see, he says nothing but what the party wants him to say, and he does no more than the party wants him to do. And so, he marches on with his millions of comrades, trampling on the rights of others... for now his education is complete. His education... for death.
[the soldiers change into a row of graves]
- Alternate versionsThere is an Italian DVD edition of this movie, distributed by DNA Srl. The movie was re-edited with the contribution of the film history scholar Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available in streaming on some platforms.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Disney Family Album: Milt Kahl (1984)
The tone of most of the cartoon is pretty grim. How many others can you name that prominently feature a book-burning?
A boy is born to a German family. Much of the film is in German (!) -- high quality German too, by the way -- with English voice-over. A name must be chosen for the boy, once the parents have proven their Aryan ancestry, naturally. The chosen name can't be on the proscribed list, those Old Testament prophets so offensive to Aryans.
There is a comic interlude where Germany's saviour, Hitler in silver armour, rescues Germany from the evil witch, Democracy. Germany is personified by an unusually stout Brünnhilde from Wagner's Ring cycle, who sings the words "Heil Hitler" to the tune of the Valkyries' cries of "Heiaha" from Act III of "Die Walküre". This is an opportunity as well to parody that famous Nazi painting -- by whom I don't recall -- of Der Führer wearing a glorious suit of shining steel as did the chivalric heroes of yore. (The one where Hitler looks like an extra from Boorman's "Excalibur".)
We see the boy being indoctrinated into cruelty by his teacher at school. Then the boy happens to fall sick. That's not allowed in Nazi Germany; a German "soldat" does not get sick. That scene is very well animated. It reminded me of the endearing Darling family in "Peter Pan" (1953), not coincidentally directed by Clyde Geronimi too.
Eventually the boy does become a "soldat", one of a long line of interchangeable soldier faces, much like the row of gleaming boots in "Battleship Potemkin".
The soldiers march neatly in line over the brow of the hill, where they perform their final designated service to the Führer, by turning into a row of crosses.
Nothing terribly funny about this one, folks. For that, you'd need Donald Duck remakng Charlie Chaplin in "Der Fuehrer's Face" (1943).
- Varlaam
- Aug 21, 1999
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- The Story of One of Hitler's Children as Adapted from: Education for Death - The Making of the Nazi
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- Runtime10 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1