Analysis Of Clyde Geronimi's Education For Death: The Making Of The Nazi

Death in the Making In war there are countries try to convince others to join their ideal or cause. These propaganda are used war to persuade citizens to help in the war effort. This idea of propaganda is true for World War II, as many countries involved were in a total war where they needed as much support as possible. Due to the war, various German propaganda were created to make villains of the allies and convince others to join the Reich. Though Germany was not the only ones to create propaganda, but all the countries involved, including America. One of the propaganda to come out of America was a short film produced by Walt Disney and directed by Clyde Geronimi called Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi released in 1943. This short

Within these texts you can see how Nazi Germany breed soldiers in a way that would eventually lead to their death. This ideal can be seen in Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi near the end of the short film when Hans is grown up and marching with the Nazi army and the narrator says “With his millions of comrades trampling on the rights of others; for now his education is complete, his education for death (Geronimi, Education for Death). Along with the narration comes imagery of all the soldiers becoming tombstones to emphasize the vast number of needles death. This imagery and narration together brings sadness to the enemies as people see that the children are grown up to be this way and in-turn wish to save them. Similar themes can be found in All the Light We Cannot See with that of the death of Werner. Werner died when he was being healed in an allied medical camp and began walking out “But Werner has crossed the edge of the field, where he steps on a trigger land mine set there by his own army three months before, and disappears in a fountain of earth” (Doerr 483). Werner’s death by stepping on his own army’s landmine along with how silent and insignificant the death was directly reflects the ideas of the Nazi regime of expendable soldiers. These texts through different means are able to convey the same idea of meaningless killing of their own soldiers. Nazi Germany cared not for the wellbeing and life of their own soldiers and instead used the children as collateral for their ideas. The children were created this way by their upbringing in Hitler Youth schools that emphasized and instilled Nazi ideas into them. These teachings led many German children ignorant and lacking knowledge which led them to become blank slates for Germany to