The Walt Disney Company turns 100 this year, so each month IllusiveKen is looking back at its landmark films to better understand the Mouse House - and the film industry it's helped define. This month: Der Fuehrer’s Face:
Not to love the Fuehrer is a great disgrace,Many of the worst man-made events that ever occurred were not the product of evil geniuses. Instead they were the product of a parade of idiots and lunatics, incoherently flailing their way through events, helped along the way by overconfident people who thought they could control them.—Tom Phillips
People know this now, and they knew it at the time. But some people really like the idea of being superior to others—who wish against all their kindergarten wisdom that it could just once be okay to be mean to other people for no coherent reason. Some people desire with their whole being that the human condition and the arc of justice would bend toward them being inherently right and worthy, and others being inherently wrong and inferior. And those folks just can’t stop thinkin’ ‘bout Nazis.
Going into “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” you should know that it features Donald Duck repeatedly shouting “Heil Hitler!” and throwing around Nazi salutes, dressing like a Nazi , and goose-stepping at gunpoint. You should know the Japanese caricatures are as bad as you imagine. But it’s all a dream. Donald awakens in his star-spangled PJs to find himself a citizen of the U.S. of A., and so thankful for it. It’s bizarre, surreal slapstick—and as deeply disrespectful to Nazis as you hope. For almost everybody alive today who isn’t aware of it, it must seem unbelievable to think that at one point Donald Duck was starring in anti-Nazi propaganda. But it was much of what Disney was producing at the time, even if the company doesn’t seem to want to talk about it now.
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