Hitler Lives (1945)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Writer:

Saul Elkins (writer)

Release Date:

29 December 1945 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Short

Plot:

This short, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas live on in the German people...

Plot Keywords:

German | WWII | Hitler | Europe | German History

Awards:

Won Oscar.

Cast

Knox Manning

...

Narrator (voice)

Also Known As:

Hitler Lives?

Runtime:

17 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #11226)

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Someone at Warner Brothers discovered a rule that any film done by the army could be shown to the general public if the soundtrack was replaced by a new one. So the original narration was removed and replaced by a new one; contrary to popular belief, it was the short that won the Oscar, not Theodor Geisel, who had written the script for the original short.

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Awful film about German attitudes in Late 1945

This film won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short in 1945, and I believe it is the worst film ever nominated for an Oscar. This was a War Department film produced for our occupation troops in Germany, at a time when they were not allowed to even speak to a German. The premise is that there are still thousands (millions?) of Nazis out in the population, and we must keep them from letting another Hitler lead Germany. With a message like that for our troops, it's a wonder that the(West)Germans were our allies in the cold war. The film is available on videotape, under the title "Your Job in Germany", from International Historic Films in Chicago and is very rarely shown on Turner Classic Movies..