Hollywood Enlists! by Ralph Donald

Author:Ralph Donald
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
Published: 2012-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Their Disdain for Us

The thirteenth Satanism propaganda statement is “the enemy shows disdain for us as a people, and for our institutions.” A typical example comes from Black Dragons, in which Nazi Dr. Melcher calls all democracies “archaic.” Plus, his surgically altered spies seem willing to believe their own propaganda, assuming the investigations into their various acts of sabotage will die down, because Americans are “foolish and lax.” Similarly, in This Land Is Mine, Nazi commandant Von Kellar (Walter Slezak) maintains that “nothing can stop us from winning the world,” and that America will fall because it contains many self‑serving Quislings who will aid the Germans when they arrive, “just as they did in Europe:” Von Kellar’s disdain of the United States and England is characterized in this line: “America is a charming cocktail of Irish and Jews. Very spectacular, but very childish. And England? A few old ladies wearing their grandfather’s leather britches.”

The Japanese also have high opinions of themselves, compared to their enemies. In Bombardier, the Japanese have just taken captured American airmen into an adjoining room and shot them. The men scream as they are killed. A ferret-faced little Japanese major turns to Buck and the Sarge, whom they have spared for the present, expecting them to reveal secret information rather than join their fellow airmen. With an air of superiority and grinning malevolently, he declares: “Japanese do not scream.” Of course, in a film like this, a line like that begs an “oh, yeah?” answer. So later, when Buck and the Sarge kill their captors and Buck escapes in a flaming truck, he runs over some Japanese soldiers, each of whom screams louder and in higher-pitched voice than did the murdered Americans. This is followed by a medium close‑up of Buck, who grins in satisfaction at having proven the Japanese officer a liar.

In The Purple Heart, after the Chinese governor gives false testimony against the American flyers and is killed by his son, the judge comments to the foreign press that the Chinese “are barbarians who will strike down their own flesh and blood, if the price is high enough.” Later, two foreign correspondents discuss the Japanese hatred of all non‑Japanese. One says, “To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are bel­ligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies—they draw a very fine distinction.”

Despite the fact that the Nazis consider residents of conquered countries “subjects of the Reich,” they are not exempt from German disdain. In Edge of Darkness, the Nazi sergeant calls a Polish actress forced to accompany a German lieutenant to Norway as his mistress a “Polish sow.” Of course, the woman calls the sergeant a “swine.” Later in the picture, as previously mentioned, a German soldier who raped a Norwegian woman is killed by her father. The father, wishing no reprisals on his behalf, hands himself over to “justice.” But the German commandant declares, “The life of one Norwegian is not worth the life of a German soldier.

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