US propaganda film: racial/religious prejudice

Identifier
irn1001195
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2269
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference

Scope and Content

Dramatizes, by animation, the mixing of "Dr. Hitler's purge medicine" (consisting of racial and religious prejudice) by Nazi propangandists. Efforts to see this "purge" tonic in the US are shattered on the rock of American tolerance.

Note(s)

  • Distributed by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry See Story 962, Film ID 913 for a similar version of "Weapon of War" with different titles.

Subjects

  • PROPAGANDA
  • JEWS
  • CARICATURES
  • RACE
  • HITLER, ADOLF
  • UNITED STATES
  • RACIAL SCIENCE

Genre

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