In this episode of Primary, Erin and Vinnie visit America's favorite cartoon duck in the nightmare of all nightmares, complete with a song you'll be mortified to get stuck in your head. The 1942 Walt Disney short "Der Fuehrer's Face" gives us a glimpse into American World War II propaganda and let's us take… Donald Duck at his word. Is that really Donald Duck saluting Hitler? How are there so many swastikas? Is Donald Duck going to be ok?

Citations

The Primary Sources

• Der Fuehrer's Face. Directed by Jack Kinney. Performed by Clarence Nash and Billy Bletcher. United States: Walt Disney, 1942. January 4, 2011. Accessed August 1, 2018.https://youtu.be/bn20oXFrxxg.

Secondary/Additional Sources

• Crow, Jonathan. "Dr. Seuss Draws Anti-Japanese Cartoons During WWII, Then Atones with Horton Hears a Who!" Openculture.com. August 20, 2014. Accessed August 1, 2018http://www.openculture.com/2014/08/dr-seuss-draws-racist-anti-japanese-cartoons-during-ww-ii.html.

• Kozlov, Vladimir. "Oscar-Winning Donald Duck Short About Nazi Germany Taken Off Russia's List of Extremist Material." The Hollywood Reporter, July 21, 2016. Accessed August 1, 2018.https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscar-winning-donald-duck-short-913151.

• "New U.S. War Songs: One Establishes a Legend, Another Mocks the Nazis." LIFE, November 2, 1942, 43-45. Accessed August 1, 2018.https://books.google.ca/books?id=JkAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA44&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false.

• Quinn, Shannon. "10 Disney Propaganda Cartoons From World War II." Listverse.com. February 5, 2017. Accessed August 1, 2018.https://listverse.com/2017/02/05/10-disney-propaganda-cartoons-from-world-war-ii/.

• "Spike Jones (Bluebird 11586)." Billboard, September 24, 1942, 63, 66. Accessed August 1, 2018.https://books.google.com/books?id=MQwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT62&dq=%22Der%20Fuehrer's%20Face%22%20Victor%20Records&pg=PT62#v=onepage&q=%22Der%20Fuehrer's%20Face%22&f=false..

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “World War II: Key Dates.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. Accessed on 1 Aug 2018.https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/world-war-ii-key-dates.