# Was Walt Disney a fascist? (April 12, 2005)

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**Created:** [August 7, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-walt-disney-a-fascist-april-12-2005/630764 "2012-08-07T18:04:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![madkaugh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@madkaugh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madkaugh)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-walt-disney-a-fascist-april-12-2005/630764/1 "2012-08-07T18:04:50Z")

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> One of the more curious charges against Disney was that he was a secret Nazi. A few white supremacist groups still cherish this notion. Their best evidence is a misreading of the short film “Der Fuehrer’s Face” (1943), in which Donald is seen in a Nazi uniform, swastikas and all. In the end we find out it’s all a nightmare, but that doesn’t dissuade the racists.

More than ‘It’s a dream’, “Der Fuehrer’s Face” was an _anti_-Nazi propaganda cartoon. The entire cartoon can (still?) be viewed on YouTube, and the song was a hit for Spike Jones. [http://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=der+fuehrer%27s+face&oq=der+fuhrer%27s+face&gs\_l=youtube.1.0.0i10l10.33245.36979.0.45868.2.2.0.0.0.0.110.219.0j2.2.0…0.0…1ac.XQhiRRF-SFs](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=der+fuehrer%27s+face&oq=der+fuhrer%27s+face&gs_l=youtube.1.0.0i10l10.33245.36979.0.45868.2.2.0.0.0.0.110.219.0j2.2.0...0.0...1ac.XQhiRRF-SFs)

Additionally, Disney studios made other wartime propaganda films and training films for the war effort:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt\_Disney’s\_World\_War\_II\_propaganda\_production](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney's_World_War_II_propaganda_production)

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Walt\_Disney’s\_World\_War\_II\_productions\_for\_Armed\_Forces](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney's_World_War_II_productions_for_Armed_Forces)

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-walt-disney-a-fascist-april-12-2005/630764/2 "2012-08-08T00:27:53Z")

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Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Boards, **madkaugh** , an interesting post. When you start a thread, however, it’s helpful to other readers to also provide a link to the column in question – saves searching time and keeps us on the same page. In this case: [Was Walt Disney a fascist? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1623/was-walt-disney-a-fascist)

No biggie, you’ll know for next time, and, as I say, welcome!