Title: The Nazis strike /
Authors: Capra, Frank, 1897-1991.; Litvak, Anatole, 1902-1974; Amos Vogel Annenberg School of Communications Collection (Harvard Film Archive)
Publisher: The War Department, Special Services Division, S.O.S,
Year: 1942
Subjects: Hitler, Adolf,; Churchill, Winston,; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.; World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Europe, Eastern.; Battles.; Armed Forces in motion pictures.; Propaganda; Demonstrations Germany Nuremberg.; National socialism; Germany Politics and government; Germany In motion pictures.; Poland History
Abstract: This documentary produced by the U.S. Department of War explains Hitler's plans for the conquest of Poland, Austria and Czechoslovakia (the heartland of Asia) as part of a strategy to gain control of the world's labor and raw materials. the filmmakers freely combine reenactments of Genghis Kahn's invasion of Europe with extensive Nazi footage of the siege of Warsaw and Danzig, and the firing squads and executions that followed. The film includes images of the American Nazi party meeting in Madison Square Garden as well as images of Adolf Hitler taken directly from Leni Reifenstahl's Triumph of the Will. "High pitched propagandistically inflamed oratory, the massed bands and banners, the rhythm of goose steps and drums, the sentimentality of old German songs, and the shots of old Nuremberg linking the new regime to the national past." Amos Vogel