In time of war, it's typical,
sometimes even useful,
to demonize your enemy.
We still see this today,
whenever a dictator or despot
comes to power anywhere in the world.
Caricatures and jokes,
not always in the best of taste,
rise to the forefront because it's our way
of relieving aggression.
So it was in World War ll.
Some people feared Adolf Hitler.
Others mocked him.
The Disney staff came up with the idea for
a cartoon to be titled,
Donald Duck in Nutzi Land.
Giving the All-American duck a nightmare
that he was living
in a country run by Nazis.
The title changed when a song
written for the cartoon
by Oliver Wallace became a runaway hit,
in a now classic recording
by Spike Jones.
It then became essential
to change the name of the cartoon
to Der Fuehrer's Face.
It's easy to see
why the film was so popular.
It's very, very funny.
Reducing the serious tenets
of Hitler's Nazism
to slapstick absurdities.
And it gave audiences a chance to think,
as Donald does, about the freedoms
they might have taken for granted.
Am I glad to be a citizen
of the United States of America!
Der Fuehrer's Face, directed
by Jack Kinney, won the Academy Award
as Best Animated Short Subject of 1943.
When der Fuehrer says
We is the master race
We heiI! HeiI!
Right in
der Fuehrer's face
Not to love der Fuehrer
Is a great disgrace
So we heil! Heil!
Right in
der Fuehrer's face
When Herr Goebbels says
We own the world
and space
We heil! Heil!
Right in
Herr Goebbels' face
When Herr Goering says
They'll never bomb
this place
We heil! Heil!
Right in
Herr Goering's face
Is we not
the supermen?
Aryan pure supermen
Ja, we is the supermen
Super-duper supermen
Is this Nutzi Land
so good?
Would you leave it
if you could?
Ja, this Nutzi Land
is good
We wouldn't leave it
if we could
We bring the world
to order
HeiI Hitler's
new world order
Everyone
of foreign race
Will love
der Fuehrer's face
When we bring
to the world disorder
When der Fuehrer says
we is the master race
We heil! Heil!
Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler.
So we hei! Heil!
Heil! Heil!
Heil Hitler!
Shut up!
Heil Hitler!
Heil Hirohito!
Heil Mussolini!
Ohh, heil.
Oh, boy, oh, boy.
Am I hungry.
Oh, boy, oh, boy.
I'm so hungry.
Ahh.
Here!
Improve the mind!
HeiI Hitler!
When der Fuehrer says
we is the master race
Yeah, yeah, yeah! Heil!
Keep stomping!
Welcome,
workers of Nutzi Land!
What a glorious privilege
is yours...
to be a Nutzi...
to work 48 hours a day
for der Fuehrer.
When der Fuehrer says
We heil! Heil!
But still
we work like slaves
While der Fuehrer brags
And lies and rants
and raves
We heiI! HeiI!
And work
into our graves
Heil Hitler!
Heil Hitler!
Heil Hitler!
Get to work!
Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!
Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!
Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!
Heil Hitler!
Heil Hitler!
When der Fuehrer yells
"I got to have
more shells"
We heil! Heil!
For him
we make more shells
If one little shell
should blow him right to-
We'll heil! Heil!
And wouldn't that
be swell
Heil Hitler!
Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!
Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!
Heil Hitler!
Is this not wonderfuI?
Is not our Fuehrer glorious?
Heil Hitler!
Heil Hitler!
What's that you say,
schweinhund?!
Heil Hitler!
Heil Hitler.
Ohhhh.
Attention, workers!
Through the kindness
of der Fuehrer...
now comes the vacation
mit pay!
Ach, the beautifuI Alps...
mit the birds...
und the beautifuI scenery.
Not forgetting to build up
the body...
so we can work harder
for der Fuehrer!
Heil Hitler.
One, two, three, heil!
One, two, three, heil!
And now
the vacation is over...
by speciaI decree
of der Fuehrer.
Heil Hitler!
You have been chosen
to work... overtime!
Ohhhh.
Hey! We need more shells!
Faster! Faster!
Shells! Shells!
More shells!
Faster! Faster!
We need more shells!
Faster! Faster! Faster!
I can't stand it!
I can't stand it!
I'm going mad!
Stop! Stop! Stop!
Uhh! Blblblbl!
Blblblblblbl!
Heil!
When der Fuehrer says
we is the master race
We heiI! HeiI!
Right in der Fuehrer's face
Not to love der Fuehrer
is a great disgrace
So we heiI! Heil!
Right in der Fuehrer's face
Heil Hit-
Oh, boy!
Am I glad to be a citizen...
of the United States
of America!
Ohh!
Not to love
der Fuehrer
Is a great disgrace
So we heil! Heil!
Right in
der Fuehrer's face
So we heiI! Heil!
Right in
der Fuehrer's face