The Nazis Strike
| The Nazis Strike | |
|---|---|
Film (Hitler at the Office of War Information | |
| Distributed by | War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry |
Release date |
|
Running time | 41 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Nazis Strike is the second film of
Heartland Theory
 | This article contains too many or overly lengthy quotations. (July 2022) |
Hitler's plan for
In the Middle Ages a plague of slavery descended on the world. From the wilds of Mongolia rode a mighty army of fierce horsemen, led by Genghis Khan. Burning, looting, pillaging... the barbarian horde swept across Asia and Eastern Europe. Genghis Khan controlled most of the world of the thirteenth century. Adolf Hitler was determined to outdo him, and conquer all the world of the twentieth century.
Set up at Munich was an institute devoted to the little-known science of geopolitics, vaguely defined as "the military control of space". Germany's leading geopolitician, a former general, Karl Haushofer, was head man. He has gathered together more information about your home town than you yourself know.
To the German geopolitician, the world is not made up of men and women and children, who live and love and dream of better things. It is made up of only two elements – labor and raw materials. The geopoliticians' job was to transform Hitler's ambition to control these elements into cold, hard reality.
On their map our planet is neatly divided into land and water. Water forms three quarters of the Earth's surface, land only one quarter. And in that one quarter of the Earth's surface lies the world's wealth, all its natural resources – and the world's manpower.
Control the land and you control the world – that was Hitler's theory. This all-important "land" the geopoliticians now break up into two areas – one the Western Hemisphere, which together with Australia and all the islands of the world including Japan, comprises one third of the total land area. The other area, which consists of Europe, Asia, and Africa, makes up the other two thirds. This supercontinent, which they call the "World Island", is not only twice as large as the rest of the land area, but also includes seven eighths of the world's population.
The heart of this "World Island" comprises Eastern Europe and most of Asia. This they call the "Heartland", which just about coincides with the old empire of Genghis Khan.
Hitler's step-by-step plan for world conquest can be summarized this way:
Conquer Eastern Europe and you dominate the Heartland.
Conquer the Heartland and you dominate the World Island.
Conquer the World Island... and you dominate the World.That was the dream in Hitler's mind as he
stood at Nuremberg.
Fifth column activity
The next focus of the film is the "softening-up" of the Western democracies by using fascist organizations such as the
Germany then begins its territorial expansion with the first target being
Invasion of Poland
The film concludes with the
The extreme disparity between the two sides is emphasized. The Germans have 5,000 modern
That suggests that its makers learned the details of the Polish campaign largely from
Overall, the movie gives the false impression that Polish Army to be ineffective and even pathetic and to do no damage to the Germans.[1] The film also alleged widespread collaboration with the invading Germans but does not specify from whom.[1]
The Germans are forced to stop at the
The film makes no mentions of the Soviet invasion of Poland and its battles at the Polish border forces or that the Soviets broke their own non-aggression pact with Poland.[1] Soviet atrocities against Poland are omitted as well.[1]
.gif)
The film then notes that Hitler turns west to finish off Britain and France, which have declared war on Nazi Germany, rather than risk a two-front war, which leads to the third part of the installment dealing with the German invasion of Western Europe. The film concludes with the quote by Winston Churchill from his speech to the Allied delegates in 1941:
- "What tragedies, what horrors, what crimes has Hitler and all that Hitler stands for brought upon Europe and the world! it is upon this foundation that Hitler [...] pretends to build out of hatred [....] a new order for Europe. But nothing is more certain than that every trace of Hitler's footsteps, every stain of his infected, and corroding fingers will be expunged, purged, and if need be, BLASTED from the surface of the earth. Lift up your hearts, all will come right. Out of depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind."
Criticism
Polish-American historian Mieczysław B. Biskupski gave a harsh review, calling it "a conglomeration of patriotic exhortation, crackpot geopolitical theorizing, and historical mischief making."[1] Noting that the film was more than inaccurate but an intentional attempt to falsify certain facts about the war, particularly by misportraying the Soviets,[1] it casts the Poles in the role of failure and the Soviets in the role of guiltless saviors to serve a clear ideological role of justifying the Anglo-American alliance with the Soviet Union.[1]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8131-2559-6. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
External links
- The Nazis Strike National Archives and Records Administration — via: YouTube
- The Nazis Strike is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
- The Nazis Strike at IMDb
