Hitler Lives (1945 propaganda)

Hitler Lives (also known as Hitler Lives?) is a 1945 short documentary film directed by Don Siegel. It won an Academy Award in 1946 for Documentary Short Subject. It warns that the defeated German population still contains Nazi supporters and that the world must stay ever vigilant against the prospect that a new Hitler will arise within Germany. The film combines dramatized content mixed with archive footage.

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• ww2
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• nazi
• allied
• germany
• wwii
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• academy
• award

[YamiBarai21]

americans are gay

[YamiBarai21]

A video filled with jealousy and envy, because AMERIKA is the most "peaceful" NATION IN THE WORLD who "hasn't invaded" no countries since 1945

[YamiBarai21]

Deutschland über alles mann!!!! AVE MAL CAESAR!!!! SCHWARZES SONNE!!!

[CurtHowland]

The only thing this film gets right, is that WW2 was just WW1 part 2.

[RMMHS4RP]

@anarchteacher Raico is great on the atomic bombings. I'll check out the article you mention next chance I get. Thanks.

[888music]

The hypocritical Feds: They go after Hitler who killed millions while supporting Stalin who killed ten of millions. They "liberated" eastern Europe from Hitler only to give it to Stalin. Meanwhile, sending Americans to get killed in an unnecessary war and depriving the survivors of liberty.

[anarchteacher]

@RMMHS4RP Your analysis is exactly on-target. See Dr. Ralph Raico's illuminating article,"Nazifying the Germans," available online, which futher develops this point.

[wkmac2]

This film has been remade several times since 1945' but the "evil-doers" updated.

[RMMHS4RP]

@anarchteacher By starting German history in the era of Bismark, the film is able to depict Germans as inherently authoritarian, ruthless, and lacking a refined culture. It overlooks 1) all the great German poets, philosophers, composers, and theologians from before that time, and 2) the fact that before Bismark, Germany was politically decentralized, relatively peaceful, and united only by a common intellectual culture. All Germany's victims are potentially capable of the same crimes.

[anarchteacher]

This Academy Award winning documentary is an excellent example of post-WWII, pre-Cold War propaganda (the target is a revitalized and aggressive Germany, not an expansionist and totalitarian Soviet Union). It is very effectively produced, incorporating a powerful emotional narrative with many seering images familiar to theater audiences of the day who had been exposed to Frank Capra's celebrated Why We Fight series. The strident tone and delivery is often seen in today's DHS propaganda efforts.