Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Aspen Orson There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

Robert J. Maxwell It spells out the moral message in an entertaining and sometimes amusing way, with just about the right balance.The narrative follows the path of little Hans, born to a sympathetically drawn normal German family whose Aryan ancestry the state has validated.In school the children are told a story about a fox chasing and eating a rabbit. And the uniformed teacher with the massive jaw and gravelly voice asks what they think of the characters in the fairy tale. Hans opts for feeling sorry for the poor hare. He's excoriated and sent to the corner until eventually he yields to pressure from his peers and his authority figures and becomes a true Nazi, "educated for death."The scenes are vivid and clever. There are sly hints of The Ride of the Valkyries from Wagner. The caricatured portraits of Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels are funny as hell, as well done as anything by any current political cartoonist.And the narration is perfectly correct in arguing that learning begins at birth -- not just in Nazi Germany but everywhere. That's why our boy babies wear blue and girl babies wear pink.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi" is a 10-minute movie by Disney from 1942, the years of World War II. Propaganda was actually truly common back then, especially in animated short films. However, it is rather rare that this is not included in films with very famous cartoon characters ("Blitz Wolf", "Der Fuehrer's Face"), but that characters appear that only appear in this film here. This would be Hans. We follow his path from a little boy to a fully-grown man and soldier. As usual with Disney, there is comedy in here, but this one also has great drama and tragedy. We find out how the Nazis deal with the sick and weak, we find out about their take on un-Aryan art (music in this case) and about many other of their approaches. Hitler must have hated this film if he saw it. The final shot is a very moving one. The narrator in here basically translates the German dialogs by the cartoon characters, so it's easy to understand if you are not a German native. A really good cartoon and I highly recommend it to everybody with an interest in 20th century history and animation. Thumbs up.

TheOtherFool Short animation flick follows the early years of 'Hans', who has the bad luck of being born in Hitler Germany. He's brainwashed into becoming a nazi, and ultimately dies at the battlefield, as thousands of his fellow Germans did.With first viewing you think Disney's thought on nazi-Germany (which is portrayed as a fat, ugly and gullible woman) is a bit too simplistic and one-dimensional, but in the end, when you think of it, it's more of a sad story about the young kid than one of hatred towards the nazi's.The animations are amazing and the content (with what we know how) grim, dark and scary. Hard to rate this, but I'll give it a 7/10. Be sure to catch this if you can.

TomWills I'll keep it simple. This is a portrayal of one of the cutest children in all of Disney as he is educated to hate and death by Nazi propaganda. Effectively bone chilling, this hateful cartoon served its purpose to motivate Americans to consider their moral superiority gleaned from a free education system.