War Languages Propaganda films and speeches in WW2

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War LanguagesPropaganda films and speeches in
WW2

• Vesa Matteo Piludu

University of Helsinki Department of Art Research
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World War 2. German propaganda Anti-Semitic

• BBC Document from WW2. Jews are not wanted here.
  / "Juden! Sind hier unerwuenscht.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vNGNyc_LlJhsfeature
  related
• Heinrich Himmler Speech - Jewish Extermination
  Orders (secret speech for the SS)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v7_XS3Xra0Xsfeature
  related
• Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler's speech to the
  SS officers responsible for carrying out the
  wholesale extermination of the European Jews.
  Delivered in Poznan, Poland on October 4,
  1943.The text of the speech scrolls in both the
  original German and its English Translation.

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Mussolini a Pro-American speech in 1929and a
typical fascist mass propaganda speech in 1939

• Mussolini's Speech in English (1929 Fox Movietone
  Newsreel)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vtTXhez2mNmM
• Mussolini says (Roughly transcribed)"I am very
  glad to be able to express my feelings to the
  American nation. Friendship which Italy looks to
  millions of citizens who from..... from Pacific
  to Atlantic..... United States is very deeply
  rooted in our hearts.This feeling created by
  mutual interest in preparation of an even
  brighter era in the life of both nations. I agree
  - the wonderful energy of the American people and
  I feel....... my fellow citizens who are working
  to make America great.I salute the great
  American people, I salute the Italians of America
  who unite in the love of the nation."
• MUSSOLINI SPEECH REGGIO CALABRIA 1939, Istituto
  Luce
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vBezn89c-Geg

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Capras Prelude to War

• Prelude to War was the first film of Frank
  Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series,
  commissioned by the pentagon and George C.
  Marshall. It was made to convince American troops
  of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers
  during World War II.World War II is introduced
  in black and white terms, with Henry Wallace's
  quote "This is a fight between a free world and a
  slave world" pictorialized with the "free world"
  of the Allies as a brightly-illuminated planet
  and the "slave world" of the Axis Powers as a
  planet deep in shadow.It examines the
  differences between democratic and fascist
  states, using footage from Axis propaganda films
  including Triumph of the Will, but with different
  narration designed to support the Allied
  cause.It is mentioned that after the Nazis
  smashed opposing political parties and labor
  unions, they turned their attention to
  persecution of Christians - in one scene a
  stained glass window is shattered by a brick to
  reveal a "Heil Hitler!" poster behind

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Prelude to war

• The Axis aim of total world conquest, as shown in
  Prelude to War.The Axis is depicted as seeking
  total world conquest. An animated map first shows
  Mussolini's ambition to re-create the Roman
  Empire, complete with the Mediterranean as "Our
  (the Italians') Sea", then Japan's ambition -
  described in the Tanaka Memorial (Its
  authenticity is still a matter of dispute) - to
  conquer Manchuria, China, Indochina, Siam, Burma,
  the East Indies, India, Australia, New Zealand
  and Russia east of Lake Baikal, before moving
  east to crush the United States. The Nazis are
  shown as first claiming Europe, then moving east
  through Iraq and Iran into India, then south to
  conquer Africa. Once this is accomplished, the
  Nazis would cross the Atlantic Ocean from Dakar
  to Brazil - meeting up with the Japanese who have
  crossed the South Pacific. Simultaneously, the
  Nazis would cross the North Atlantic Ocean from
  Scandinavia into Canada, meeting the Japanese
  forces (pejoratively referred to as Germany's
  "buck-toothed pals") crossing from Siberia. The
  combined Axis armies then overrun the United
  States.

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Prelude to War

• Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the
  Imperial Japanese Navy is shown making a speech
  which is deliberately mistranslated (as in other
  US World WaWhen war comes between Japan and the
  United States, I shall not be content to merely
  occupying Guam, the Philippines, Hawaii, and San
  Francisco. I look forward to dictating the peace
  to the United States in the White House at
  Washingtonr II propaganda) as "." - this is
  followed by a scene showing the "conquering Jap
  army" marching down Pennsylvania Avenue in
  Washington DC, as the narration alludes to
  Japanese atrocities in Nanking, Hong Kong and
  Manila.

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Prelude to war

• It also points out that while they claimed to
  lack raw materials, they were able to build
  enormous war machines. The Nazi Wehrmacht is
  mentioned to have "30 Panzer divisions, 70
  motorized divisions and 140 infantry divisions".
• The film notably takes the position that the war
  started on September 18, 1931 with Japan's
  invasion of Manchuria, which is covered towards
  the end of the film along with Mussolini's
  invasion of Ethiopia.
• The animation showing a Japanese dagger
  plunging into Manchuria is re-used in The Battle
  of Russia, The Battle of China and War Comes To
  America.
• Prelude to War won the 1942 Academy Award for
  Documentary Feature

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Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" World War II
Propaganda Series

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vyBUKRAE2O9c
• A document on Capras Propagandas documents
• This is a short, but favorable, presentation
  discussing Frank Capra's World War II propaganda
  series entitled "Why We Fight." This series of
  films was funded by the United States government
  and used to condition the American military and
  public to accept the war.The majority of
  Americans wanted no part of another European
  conflict. Behind the scenes though the Roosevelt
  administration was steering the country towards
  war.

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Why We Fight

• Why We Fight "Prelude to War" (ca. 1943) 1/6 10
  min
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vvrwT2K3SwGkfeature
  PlayListpE1FF98DF99AFCBA6index0
• Why We Fight "Prelude to War" (ca. 1943) 2/6 10
  min
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vmDulUKcmYvIfeature
  PlayListpE1FF98DF99AFCBA6index1
• (03) Why We Fight "Prelude to War" (ca. 1943)
  3/6 10 min
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vi-ZqjG2RdMgfeature
  PlayListpE1FF98DF99AFCBA6index2
• (04) Why We Fight "Prelude to War" (ca. 1943)
  4/6
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vPyYG3ryqfc4feature
  PlayListpE1FF98DF99AFCBA6index3
• (05) Why We Fight "Prelude to War" (ca. 1943)
  5/6
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vGzXK-SxsIYofeature
  PlayListpE1FF98DF99AFCBA6index4
• (06) Why We Fight "Prelude to War" (ca. 1943)
  6/6
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vSuhtljNOdO0feature
  PlayListpE1FF98DF99AFCBA6index5