Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
The second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and the Nazis as its latest incarnation.
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Title: The Nazis Strike Summary: The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war. Directed by: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak Actors: Production Company: The War Department Release Date: 1943 (USA) Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1 In this installment of the Why We Fight propaganda film series, we see the events of Nazi Germany's diplomatic and military acts of international aggression. One by one, we learn of the Nazi's consistently underhanded and relenting violation of every promise of peace and exploitation of their foes's attempts of appeasement until the invasion of Poland September of 1939 which led to Britain and France finally taking an armed stand against Hitler.
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- Director
- Frank Capra
- Starring
- Edvard Beneš, Neville Chamberlain, Clementine Churchill, Winston Churchill, Galeazzo Ciano, Édouard Daladier, Walter Huston
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