History NightmareFuel / EducationForDeath

* The simple fact this film was ''[[RealismInducedHorror based on reality]]''. Other Disney villains are scary, but at the end of the day, they're just fictional. [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Evil witches that can make poison apples]] [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty and transform into giant dragons]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} mountain demons]] don't exist, so there's no reason to be afraid of them except in nightmares. Nazis? They were and at the time of the film ''are'' very much real. And more broadly, groups of people who hate and want to kill different groups of people just for existing will ''always'' be real (until [[SinisterMinister Claude]] [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Frollo]] came along many years later). [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Humans are the real Disney villains]] indeed.

** There's also the fact that the Nazi regime was ''[[HarsherInHindsight even worse]]'' in RealLife than as depicted in the movie, which makes no explicit mention of their antisemitism and their genocidal hatred towards all groups of ''undesirables''. The closest we get are some small-coded hints such as Jewish names being on a list of forbidden names for German children. And in 1945, just two years after the short was released, the Nazi regime resorted to using ChildSoldiers as the Allies poured into Germany. This, combined with the fact that Hans would have been twelve at the oldest in 1945 to be born under Nazism, paints [[DeathOfAChild an even darker picture of his fate]]...

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Heil Hitler!" said the Nazi officer to a distraught mother caring for her gravely ill child.]]

** There's also the fact that the Nazi regime was ''[[HarsherInHindsight even worse]]'' in RealLife than as depicted in the movie, which makes no explicit mention of their antisemitism. The closest we get are some small-coded hints such as Jewish names being on a list of forbidden names for German children. And in 1945, just two years after the short was released, the Nazi regime resorted to using ChildSoldiers as the Allies poured into Germany. This, combined with the fact that Hans would have been twelve at the oldest in 1945 to be born under Nazism, paints [[DeathOfAChild an even darker picture of his fate]]...

* The simple fact this film was ''[[RealismInducedHorror based on reality]]''. Other Disney villains are scary, but at the end of the day, they're just fictional. [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Evil witches that can make poison apples]] [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty and transform into giant dragons]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} mountain demons]] don't exist, so there's no reason to be afraid of them except in nightmares. Nazis? They were and at the time of the film ''are'' very much real. And more broadly, groups of people who hate and want to kill different groups of people just for existing--and teach their children to be hateful, too--will ''always'' be real (until [[SinisterMinister Claude]] [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Frollo]] came along many years later). [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Humans are the real Disney villains]] indeed.

* The simple fact this film was ''[[RealismInducedHorror based on reality]]''. Other Disney villains are scary, but at the end of the day, they're just fictional. [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Evil witches that can make poison apples]] [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty and transform into giant dragons]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} mountain demons]] don't exist, so there's no reason to be afraid of them except in nightmares. Nazis? They were and at the time of the film ''are'' very much real. And more broadly, groups of people who hate and want to kill different groups of people just for existing will ''always'' be real (until [[SinisterMinister Claude]] [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Frollo]] came along many years later). [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Humans are the real Disney villains]] indeed.

* The simple fact this film was ''[[RealismInducedHorror based on reality]]''. Other Disney villains are scary, but at the end of the day, they're just fictional. [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Evil witches that can make poison apples]] [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty and transform into giant dragons]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} mountain demons]] don't exist, so there's no reason to be afraid of them except in nightmares. Nazis? They were and at the time of the film ''are'' very much real. And more broadly, groups of people who hate and want to kill different groups of people just for existing will ''always'' be real (Until [[SinisterMinister Claude]] [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Frollo]] came along many years later). [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Humans are the real Disney villains]] indeed.

* The simple fact this film was ''[[RealismInducedHorror based on reality]]''. Other Disney villains are scary, but at the end of the day, they're just fictional. [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Evil witches that can make poison apples]] [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty and transform into giant dragons]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} mountain demons]] don't exist, so there's no reason to be afraid of them except in nightmares. Nazis? They were and at the time of the film ''are'' very much real. And more broadly, groups of people who hate and want to kill different groups of people just for existing will ''always'' be real (Until [[SinisterMinister Claude]] [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Frollo]] came along many years later).

* The simple fact this film was ''[[RealismInducedHorror based on reality]]''. Other Disney villains are scary, but at the end of the day, they're just fictional. [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Evil witches that can make poison apples]] [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty and transform into giant dragons]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} mountain demons]] don't exist, so there's no reason to be afraid of them except in nightmares. Nazis? They were and at the time of the film ''are'' very much real. And more broadly, groups of people who hate and want to kill different groups of people just for existing will ''always'' be real.

* The simple fact this film was ''[[RealismInducedHorror based on reality]]''. Other Disney villains are scary, but at the end of the day, they're just fictional. [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Evil witches that can make poison apples and turn into]] [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty giant dragons]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} mountain demons]] don't exist, so there's no reason to be afraid of them except in nightmares. Nazis? They were and at the time of the film ''are'' very much real. And more broadly, groups of people who hate and want to kill different groups of people just for existing will ''always'' be real.

* The simple fact this film was ''[[RealismInducedHorror based on reality]]''. Other Disney villains are scary, but at the end of the day, they're just fictional. [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Evil witches]], [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty giant dragons]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} mountain demons]] don't exist, so there's no reason to be afraid of them except in nightmares. Nazis? They were and at the time of the film ''are'' very much real. And more broadly, groups of people who hate and want to kill different groups of people just for existing will ''always'' be real.

* The simple fact this film was ''[[RealismInducedHorror based on reality]]''. Other Disney villains are scary, but at the end of the day, they're just fictional. [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Evil witches]], [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty giant dragons]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} mountain demons]] don't exist, so there's no reason to be afraid of them except in nightmares. Nazis? They were and at the time of the film ''are'' very much real. And more broadly, groups of people who hate and want to kill different groups of people just for existing will always be real.

* The simple fact this film was ''[[RealismInducedHorror based on reality]]''. Other Disney villains are scary, but at the end of the day, they're just fictional. [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Evil witches]], [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty giant dragons]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} mountain demons]] don't exist, so there's no reason to be afraid of them except in nightmares. Nazis? They were and at the time of the film ''are'' very much real. And more broadly, groups of people who hate and want to kill different groups of people just for being what they are will always be real.