Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Richard Dominguez Just want to make clear my rating is based on color, animation and the cohesiveness of the story. I without a doubt find it very disturbing that Disney would use the very same tactics in this cartoon to indoctrinate us (against Germans) as the cartoon clearly depicts the Germans used on their children (against Americans) ...

gangstahippie Rated NR(probably would be PG if not banned) Quebec Rating:G Canadian Home Video Rating:G(should be PG)Education for Death is one of the many World War II Nazi propaganda films.While most of them at the time featured famous cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse, this doesn't really feature any famous cartoon characters.It was released by Disney however.The film is 10min long and is basically about a young German boy and how he becomes a Nazi.There is one funny scene in this film where it shows the sleeping beauty fairy tale and portrays Hitler as the prince, however the princess is really fat and Hitler has a hard time carrying her.Its the only humorous scene in an otherwise very serious and dramatic cartoon.The film starts off with a husband and wife registering their newborn baby.It then shows the boy in school learning to love Hitler and hate the weak.It then shows how the young boy becomes a Nazi full of hatred which eventually leads to his death as well as the death of plenty of other Nazi soldiers.Since this is propaganda, most of the film is very unrealistic.First of all,Hitler's reign of power was not that long and the film shows the kid turning into a Nazi over presumably a 20 year period of time.Anyway Education for Death is a powerful and disturbing cartoon with one funny moment.If you can find it, watch it.

Robert Reynolds Forget anything you may have come to expect from Disney if and when you see this short. There is nothing cute here. The animation is excellent, is very grim and stark and very chilling. It is the most deathly serious animated short I have seen produced by a studio based in the United States. The only one I've ever seen that may match it is Balance, a German short made almost fifty years later. Education For Death is a short you won't easily forget once you've seen it and it's a shame that The Mouse hasn't seen fit to release it on a DVD along with things like Victory Through Air Power, Der Fuehrer's Face, Reason and Emotion, New Spirit and other works Disney made as a part of the war effort during World War II. An excellent production that deserves to be in print and seen. Most highly recommended.

Varlaam Is this the scariest Disney wartime cartoon? Of the very few I've seen, it is.The tone of most of the cartoon is pretty grim. How many others can you name that prominently feature a book-burning?A boy is born to a German family. Much of the film is in German (!) -- high quality German too, by the way -- with English voice-over. A name must be chosen for the boy, once the parents have proven their Aryan ancestry, naturally. The chosen name can't be on the proscribed list, those Old Testament prophets so offensive to Aryans.There is a comic interlude where Germany's saviour, Hitler in silver armour, rescues Germany from the evil witch, Democracy. Germany is personified by an unusually stout Brünnhilde from Wagner's Ring cycle, who sings the words "Heil Hitler" to the tune of the Valkyries' cries of "Heiaha" from Act III of "Die Walküre". This is an opportunity as well to parody that famous Nazi painting -- by whom I don't recall -- of Der Führer wearing a glorious suit of shining steel as did the chivalric heroes of yore. (The one where Hitler looks like an extra from Boorman's "Excalibur".)We see the boy being indoctrinated into cruelty by his teacher at school. Then the boy happens to fall sick. That's not allowed in Nazi Germany; a German "soldat" does not get sick. That scene is very well animated. It reminded me of the endearing Darling family in "Peter Pan" (1953), not coincidentally directed by Clyde Geronimi too.Eventually the boy does become a "soldat", one of a long line of interchangeable soldier faces, much like the row of gleaming boots in "Battleship Potemkin".The soldiers march neatly in line over the brow of the hill, where they perform their final designated service to the Führer, by turning into a row of crosses.Nothing terribly funny about this one, folks. For that, you'd need Donald Duck remakng Charlie Chaplin in "Der Fuehrer's Face" (1943).