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It is funny when you think what they were thinking...
Cooperpal 2 years ago
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"In death as in life, I defy the Jews who caused this
last war [WW II], and I defy the powers of darkness which they
represent. I am proud to die for my ideals, and I am sorry for
the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why." (William
Joyce's [Lord Ha Ha] last words just before Britain executed
him for anti war activism in WW II).
Moodester 2 years ago
Yes and I love the fact that Capra distilled the true need for a film to fight off the Aristocracy of Europe at the time that saw America as a mixed race "mongrel" nation of unwashed halfbreeds -- America is an "idea", not a nation of one race as were the Nazis and their "Aryan" ideals.
Cooperpal 2 years ago
Too funny.
starstuff 2 years ago
Yeah, Capra was a gifted comedic director turned dead serious when the Nazi threat kicked the whole world into fear.
Some of his fellow directors like George Stevens could not bring themselves to direct another comedy after touring the camps in Germany at the end of the war.
Being Aryan or not was a big deal. You could be put in a concentration camp if you just looked Jewish. Scary not funny!
Cooperpal 2 years ago
I totally agree. This Aryan bullshit sure got an awful lot of people in trouble. Perhaps millions of people, as it should be stated. Jewish, Gypsies, Catholic, Gay, and others that didn't quite fit the 'Nazi German ideal' were incinerated as though they were garbage. The 'funny' part was when our American 'mongrels' ,as you put it, prevented that war from achieving its goal.
starstuff 2 years ago
Yeah and so...what does that have to do the video at all? The propaganda films were made to convince the reluctant, reinsure the ones on "our" side and inspire the masses.
Hence why their called propaganda films.
RedLipstickGalore 3 years ago
Actually, much of why Capra was called upon to make the WHY WE FIGHT series was to first, give the Allied Soldier the reason he was fighting. The second reason was that Leni Reifenstahl's Nazi propaganda films were very successful in engendering Anti Semitism and the glory of the Aryan Nazi Man -- Capra knew this and had screened the German propaganda films and made the WHY WE FIGHT series to counteract the Nazi propaganda machine.
Cooperpal 2 years ago
My grandfather told me the day after pearl harbor, men lined up for MANY blocks at the recruiters office!!!
The movies came LONG after all these men had signed up.
sirjames45 4 years ago 4