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Historic Anti-Nazi Parody Film Still Amuses

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New to me.

It's kind of addictive like Gangnam Style.

Until it's not.

Give it a go!

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/12/_lambeth_walk_nazi_style_the_goofy_anti_nazi_parody_video_that_enraged_goebbels.html

In 1940, an enterprising official at the British Ministry of Information put together this video, “Lambeth Walk—Nazi Style.” The official, Charles A. Ridley, edited parts of Leni Riefenstahl’s 1934 propaganda film Triumph of the Will to make it appear as though Nazi soldiers and Hitler were doing the Lambeth Walk.

The gag was all the sweeter because a Nazi Party member had publicly denounced the dance in 1939 after the craze caught on in Berlin, calling it “Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping.”

It's got a touch of the roots of Mel Brooks, The Producers, I think.

Have you noticed that totalitarian groups try to ban or restrict music and dance, just in case it's used to lampoon them.

I remember this from when I was young, often shown on a UK TV programme 'All our Yesterdays' (1960's I'm not that ancient).

All the more impressive because of the technology used to create it, scissors and acetate glue :)

"I don't want to know why you can't. I want to know how you can!"

  • 2 weeks later...

"It's got a touch of the roots of Mel Brooks, The Producers, I think."

​Shouldn't that be the other way round?

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"It's got a touch of the roots of Mel Brooks, The Producers, I think."

​Shouldn't that be the other way round?

I am not saying Mel Brooks influenced Lambeth Walk—Nazi Style if that's how you read it as that's impossible.

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