Really Surprised!

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

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) ...

This propaganda short directed by Clyde Geronimi for Walt Disney productions remains very impressive today.If it has been made for children,they must have had bad dreams in the night.It begins with a curious treatment of "sleeping beauty" (which was transferred to the screen in 1959) :a beautiful prince (guess who) kills the wicked witch (democracy) ,wakes the princess (Germany) from her slumber and breaks the spell.Then at school you are taught that ,like in the nature,only the strong survives .When you are a young man,your only role is to become a strong soldier ,to be just a part of a machine .In the last pictures,the soldiers look like robots marching on to war.This cartoon is not legend:it is fact .Just have a look at a sequence of one of Leni Riefenstahl's movies .

Watching this film for the first time, I was completely unprepared as to just how scary and graphic this film was going to be. I can see why this film is still banned and not allowed to be shown on television- it shows all Germans as horrible, hateful beasts, which isn't true. The scene in which the Bible changes into a copy of Mein Kamph and the crucifix changes into a sword and a swastika is especially frightening. It is an interesting film, however, it should only be viewed by older people, as it would frighten young children. If you manage to find a copy, see it; but be forewarned: make sure the toddlers are out of the room.

While most of Disney's cartoons are funny, this one was quite serious. It tells of how a boy named Hans is abducted into the Nazi way of life starting from kindergarten when he learns the familiar story of Sleeping Beauty only he learns the Nazi version of it where the wicked witch is democracy and Sleeping Beauty is German. I bet you can probably guess who the prince is. Later Hans is taught that the weak don't deserve to live and that Germans are the master race. I think Walt Disney depicts the evils of Nazism quite well in this short. The outside world was probably quite shocked about this when they saw it. An innocent child being brought up to be a Nazi who says nothing but what others want him to say, to think only the way others want him to think, and to do only what others want him to do. To top it all off, having to support Der Fueher (Hitler) and dying in battle just for him. Isn't that pathetic? The narrator says "By now Hans has completed his education. His education for death!" He was right about that too. This is quite a touching story and I think that everyone should get the chance to see it. Unfortunately this short is not "politically correct" enough to be aired on the Disney Channel or Toon Disney. I hope that one day Disney will show these rare cartoons on TV. You're probably wondering where I saw this cartoon. Well, I own a video of rare Disney shorts that I got from a collector.