Der Fuehrer's Face (1943)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

The greatest movie ever!

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Basic propaganda, using an icon, Donald Duck, to demean Adolph Hitler. In this one, our Disney duck finds himself part of the Nazi military industrial complex. Sacrificing everything for the Reich and having to continually salute the awful Fuerher. He works in a munitions factory, screwing on bomb parts and being assaulted by his superiors. Of course, this would have been used to make Americans feel good about their role in WWII. Hirohito and Mussolini are referred to. There was still a lot of war left when this was made. It is based on the Spike Jones song of the time. Donald is perfect as he frantically tries to conform until he becomes a ranting mess. Significant only for its timeliness.

During the 1940's, Disney was putting out quite a few of war propaganda films. This Academy Award Winning Donald Duck short is an incredible piece of animation that id, genuinely, really good.It mocks the Nazi party, by showing Donald Duck struggling to fit in and work for the Nazi with their low food source and the hours and hours of hard work they enforce upon others. There's even a line in which a Nazi announces that they're going to work for 48 hours a day (really clever line).It's genuinely really funny and clever, as well as being beautifully animated and extremely effective with it's anti-Nazi message.It's also a cartoon that I feel everyone should experience based on how purely weird and surreal it is seeing Donald Duck being a Nazi. Watching Donald salute a picture of Adolf Hitler after walking through his swastika filled home is wonderfully weird and surreal. It's messed up seeing such an iconically wacky and classic cartoon character suddenly hate Jews so much.Great short

The comment contains spoilers. Be warned.As we all know, back during the days of World War 2 media was used to promote the state and discredit the enemy. This cartoon clearly was made for this purpose.It starts with a Nazi (Or Nutzi as they are called in this short) marching band singing how they 'Heil in Der Fuehrer's Face'. Then we find Donald Duck, a citizen of the Nutzi state. After being rudely woken up by the band he a forces out a 'Heil Hitler'. After a breakfast consisting of a slice of stale bread, we (the audience) find that Donald does not enjoy life as a Nutzi.Donald begins his job, screwing on the heads of shells. He is told be his superiors that they expect '48 hours a day' of work from their citizens. With only a few seconds of vacation and a compulsion to salute photos of Hitler under pain of death, it is not long before Donald starts to descend to madness. The Nutzi state is taking its toll. It is then we find it has been a dream all this time and that Donald is in fact a proud citizen of the USA.Clearly the message given in this animated short is that the Nazis are cruel to even their own.Overall is is an interesting piece of film and worth watching if you can find it.

I once heard that Disney's marketing department was concerned about how Mickey Mouse was depicted in 1995's Runaway Brain, because Mickey's brain was switched with an evil brain, making Mickey a rampaging villain in the cartoon. I wonder what they would think if they had to market Der Fuehrer's Face with Donald Duck wearing a Nazi uniform and, at one point, resembling Hitler. Of course, this isn't the real Donald (as it wasn't the real Mickey in Runaway Brain); it was all a bad dream for Donald. However, the image alone of Donald in `Nutzi Land' is somewhat shocking.Nevertheless, Der Fuehrer's Face exhibits some of the greatest gags I've seen in any cartoon. In Donald's nightmare, he has to do some odd exercises that contort his body into a swastika-like shape. His cuckoo clock bird looks like Hitler as he comes out of the clock doing a Heil Hitler salute. And poor Donald is forced to work in an ammunition factory where he has to salute Hitler every time he sees his picture, which is about after every other ammunition shell. It's just so surprising to seeing Hitler and the Nazis being made fun of in this way, in a cartoon no less, you can't help but laugh.Finally Donald wakes up in his red, white, and blue pajamas and is relieved to see his Statue of Liberty souvenir and realizing he's always lived in the `good, old United States of America.' This cartoon is really quite a sight to see. It makes fun of the enemy, gives people a good laugh, and displays some great patriotism. A great cartoon, in my opinion, even if it borders on controversial nowadays. It's a product of its time, and it's just a fine piece of entertainment.My IMDb Rating: 10/10