Education for Death

Not to be confused with Death education.

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi
Directed byClyde Geronimi
Written byJoe Grant
Based onEducation for Death: Sparky The Making of the Nazi
by Gregor Ziemer
Produced byWalt Disney
Narrated byArt Smith
Music byOliver Wallace
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • January 15, 1943 (1943-01-15)
Running time
10 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • English (narrator)
  • German (characters)

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi is an American animated anti-Nazi propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released on January 15, 1943, by RKO Radio Pictures, shown in theaters with Fighting Frontier. The film is directed by Clyde Geronimi and principally animated by Milt Kahl, Ward Kimball, Frank Thomas, and Bill Tytla.[2] The short is based on the non-fiction book of the same name[3] by American author Gregor Ziemer. The film features the story of Hans, a boy born and raised in Nazi Germany, his indoctrination in the Hitlerjugend, and his eventual march to war.

  1. ^ "EDUCATION FOR DEATH (A)". British Board of Film Classification. February 25, 1943. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 153. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  3. ^ Gregor Ziemer (1941). Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi. ISBN 0-374-98905-2