Lambeth Walk: Nazi Style - by Charles A. Ridley (1941)

This film short is called "Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style" and was made by Charles A. Ridley in 1941. He re-edited existing footage of Hitler and Nazi soldiers (taken from the propaganda film "Triumph of the Will") to make it appear they were marching and dancing to "The Lambeth Walk". He used the music because members of the Nazi party had called the tune "Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping". The re-edit was distributed uncredited to newsreel companies in the US and UK. Made 60+ years before YouTube, it is regarded as one of the first political remix videos.


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[Applemask]

The very first You Tube Poop. 

[StanTheRecordMan]

This is finally the best version of it on youtube.

Source Wikipedia: The film so enraged Joseph Goebbels that reportedly he ran out of the screening room kicking chairs and screaming profanities.

Keep up the good sense of humour :)

[TashkentFox]

Proof everyone was doing the Lambeth Walk in 1938, courtesy of footage from 1934 =P

[Marius Gabriel]

Even made a mock of they are terrifying



[MAZZ0Murder]

I know this is replying to a year old comment, but having just remembered this video today, I was about to say the same thing XD

[therealjoebloggs]

Shoulda taken film of the Grenadier Guards and done the same thing, for Heaven's sake! Guess Li'l Joe didn't have much of a sense of humor. (I'd actually like to see if anyone would have the nerve to dub "British Grenadiers" over goose-stepping German soldiers-- it's good goose-stepping music, let's be honest.)

[Martin Harman]

During the second world war, resistance fighters in the occupied allied countries of France, Belgium and so on would break into the projection rooms of cinemas, tie up the projectionist (who often was a willing participant!) and lace up this film and others like it on the second projector, stop the regular film, set this one running and scarper. The idea was to show to the occupied population that the resistance was active in their area and raise morale.

[StillKindashort]

Ahahahaha anything that would piss Goebbels off that much is fantastic. I can picture that weasel faced bastard throwing a tantrum. XD

[mutopis]

Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels apparently ran out of a screening room in a rage after viewing it.

[youngfreak32]

Message to Goebbels: in this case, humour is the best defence.

[Ryoushi Anschauer]

Nice of Handsome Adolf to keep time for the boys in black. I can see we Goebbels was a tad put out

[James Hong]

1941- The date of the first Youtube poop