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[[caption-width-right:300:So ve "Heil! Heil!" right in Der Fuehrer's Face!]]

->''Vhen der Fuehrer says, "Ve ist der master race!"\\
Ve "Heil! Heil!" right in der Fuehrer's face!\\
Not to love der Führer is a great disgrace,\\
Ve "Heil! Heil!" right in der Fuehrer's face!''

''Der Fuehrer's Face'' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1943]] WartimeCartoon by the Creator/WaltDisney Studios, starring WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. It was directed by Jack Kinney and released on January 1, 1943, as an anti-Nazi propaganda movie for the American war effort. Originally called "Donald Duck in Nutzi Land", it was retitled when the theme song by Oliver Wallace became a BreakawayPopHit as performed by Music/SpikeJones.

The short depicts Donald as an oppressed citizen of "Nutzi Land", TheThemeParkVersion of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany where almost everything is shaped like a swastika or an allusion to Hitler. He soon finds himself forced to work 48 hours every day to produce shells for the Fuehrer's war effort. Eventually he goes mad from stress, only to wake up home in America, relieved that his previous experience was AllJustADream.

The film won the 1943 UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Animated Short Film, and was the only Donald Duck cartoon to win an Oscar. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMTLMPcyprg Click here to watch the short film for yourself.]]

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* AdolfHitlarious: Hitler is mocked throughout the cartoon, concluding with his face getting pelted with an overripe tomato, and behind each "heil!" of the song is a [[BlowingARaspberry raspberry.]]
* AllJustADream: When it looks like "Nutzi Land" just can't get any worse, Donald wakes up and finds himself in his American home, much to his relief.
-->'''Donald:''' Oh, boy, oh, boy! Am I glad to be a citizen of the United States of America!
* AssemblyLineFastForward: Donald works on an assembly line screwing the tops onto bombs, which gets progressively harder and faster. To make matters worse, photos of Hitler randomly appear on the line, which Donald must salute. He is eventually driven to madness when the line increases to double-time.
* BeyondTheImpossible: One of the biggest indicators that "Nutzi Land" isn't even real is the 48-hour workday imposed on munitions personnel.
* BlackMarketProduce: As a citizen of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's breakfast consists of wooden bread, aroma of bacon and eggs, and coffee from a single bean he keeps locked in a safe and tied to a string so he won't lose it.
* BlowingARaspberry: Does this after each "HEIL!"
** The BBC banned British artists from performing "Der Fuehrer's Face" live because they considered raspberry blowing obscene. The solution: kazoos.
** The cartoon's version of the song has the brass band play a loud ''"bwomp"'' note in place of the raspberries.
* BodyHorror: A rare PlayedForLaughs version: Donald's tail becoming a hand that salutes Hitler.
* CampGay: Just watch the UsefulNotes/HermannGoring-clone swing his hips when he sings about Aryan "super-''duper'' Supermen!" (And those eyelashes...) Along with him getting repeatedly poked in the ass with a trombone slide.
* CompanyCrossReferences: The wishing Hitler would be sent to hell by one little shell? It actually happened in a prior Disney cartoon! Watch the opening sequence of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joVLPWGiHUY Stop That Tank]]!
* CountingToPotato: Donald's alarm clock has a swastika where the number 12 should be, and goes off at that time.
* CuckooClockGag: Donald Duck has a "Nutziland" cuckoo clock with a bird resembling UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler doing the Nazi salute. The duck [[RingRingCrunch throws a boot at it]] in response.
* CurseCutShort: Part of the song goes:
-->Vhen der Fuehrer yells, "I gotta have more shells!"\\
Ve "Heil! Heil!" For him, ve make more shells.\\
If one leetle shell should blow him right to-- [[SoundEffectBleep *CLANG!*]] ''(Donald bumps into a much bigger bomb)''\\
Ve "Heil! Heil!" And vouldn't zhat be svell?"
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: To the values of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany. Also, to the values of America at the time--seeing that an American icon, Donald Duck, is working for Der Fuehrer in Nazi Germany.
* DisneyAcidSequence: When Donald is driven to madness, he has one of these toward the end of the short.
* DrivenToMadness: Donald, toward the end due to working overtime, which leads to the Disney Acid Sequence.
* {{Eagleland}}: When Donald [[AllJustADream wakes up]], he is wearing pajamas with stars and stripes, his room is decorated in red, white, and blue, and he even has a small Statue of Liberty in the window. Donald kisses the statue in relief to realize that he lives in the USA. Definitely Flavor 1, though justified since of course this was a wartime propaganda cartoon.
* FacelessGoons: The Himmler drummer has his face obscured by his stahlhelm.
* FacialProfiling: Just as offensive than the Nazi imagery (but garnering far less attention these days) are the briefly-seen caricatures of Emperor Hirohito and Hideki Tojo. This was standard in wartime cartoons, of course, and other cartoons from the same era contained even more of this sort of thing.
* FascistButInefficient: Nutzi Land. The random portraits of Hitler (which must be saluted individually) and constant changing of the line does not make for a work environment in which much actually gets done. Many shells get past Donald with their tops unscrewed, and the amount only increases as Donald's workload gets more and more ridiculous. Donald's [[PovertyFood incredibly unsatisfactory breakfast]] and [[ImprovisedClothes paper uniform]] further imply that the overall economy is not in good shape.
* ForeignCussWord: One Nutzi calls Donald a "Schweinehund"[[note]]incorrectly spoken as "schweinhund"[[/note]], what many Americans seem to think is the German equivalent of "son of a bitch", but actually a much milder (and more rarely employed) swearword that means "Pig-dog" when translated literally. He also calls him a "verdammte Esel", or a damned jackass.
* HailToTheThief: The title song pays extremely mocking "respect" to [[AdolfHitlarious Hitler]].
* HypocriticalHumor: When the Japanese sousaphone player clarifies the question, "Is ve not the Supermen?" with an "[[AsianSpeekeeEngrish Ahryan, pure-a Supamen?]]" This is a joke on how in RealLife, Hitler had styled the Japanese 'honorary Aryans'.
* ImpossibleTask: Donald Duck is given the "privilege" to work "48 hours a day for der Fuehrer".
* ImprovisedClothes: Donald's Nutzi uniform is made of ''paper''.
* IrisOut: The film concludes with the iris closing on Donald, only to open again and reveal a caricature of Hitler for one last chorus of "Der Fuehrer's Face". Hitler's face [[TakeThat then gets]] [[ProducePelting pasted with a ripe tomato]], and the dripping juice spells out "TheEnd".
* LiteralAssKicking: Donald gets his rear end kicked several times by various Nutzi jackboots.
* NaziProtagonist: Donald. Thankfully, it turns out to be a dream.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Axis oompah band features caricatures of Joseph Goebbels, Herman Göring, Hideki Tojo, and UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini.
* NoSwastikas: Inverted. EVERYTHING in this cartoon has a swastika on it, including a fire hydrant, a telephone pole, and [[GoofyPrintUnderwear one soldier's underwear.]]
** Hell, even the ''clouds and trees'' are shaped like swastikas.
** Donald's house is shaped ''exactly'' like [[VisualPun Hitler's face]], a pun on "lebensraum" or living space, which referred to Germany taking over and forcibly colonizing Europe.
** When Donald is given a "vacation", he is forced to do aerobics ''in the shape of the swastika''.
--->"Vun, two, zree, HEIL! Vun, two, zree, HEIL! Vun, two, zree, HEIL! Vun, two, zree, HEIL!"
** Averted in the ending, with Donald waking up from the nightmare and glad to find himself in the good old U.S.A.
* PatrioticFervor: Presented as a bad thing for Nutzi Land and a good thing for {{Eagleland}}.
* PoirotSpeak: "Into the clothes get!"
* PovertyFood: Living conditions in Nutzi Land are so poor that Donald has to subsist on wooden bread (which has to be sliced with a saw), a single coffee bean he keeps tied to a string, and a bacon-and-egg-flavored perfume, all of which has to be kept in a locked safe.
* ProducePelting: The film concludes, fittingly, with a caricature of Hitler's face being pelted by a ripe tomato. Its dripping remains spell out "TheEnd."
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The opening credits quote Music/RichardWagner's "Meistersinger Overture", no doubt satirically as [[HitlerAteSugar the Nazis admired Wagner's music]].
* PuttingOnTheReich: The Axis oom-pah band, with Goebbels, Göring, Himmler, Hideki Tojo and Benito Mussolini.
* RingRingCrunch: Donald is woken by his alarm clock, which he angrily smashes.
* RussianReversal: During the DisneyAcidSequence, an anthropomorphic shell appears banging on the heads of several Donalds as they go down an assembly line, instead of the other way around.
* ShownTheirWork: The bit where Donald gets sent on "vacation" is a parody of Strength Through Joy, a Nazi German governmental organization that aimed to boost German morale and productivity by providing the masses with leisure activities (including vacations).
* SigilSpam: Swastikas are everywhere in Nutzi Land.
* SoundEffectBleep:
-->"When the Fuehrer yells, 'I gotta have more shells!'\\
We [[BlowingARaspberry Heil! Heil!]] For him we make more shells!\\
If one little shell, should blow him right to--" [[LampshadeHanging *CLANG!*]]
* SquashedFlat: During the DisneyAcidSequence, a version of Donald is shown getting stepped on by a walking shell (complete with "honk" sound effect).
* StealthPun: The last two "heil"s in the cartoon are followed by a tomato "hurl"ed at a picture of Hitler's face. The words "Heil" and "hurl" sound very similar to each other in the stereotypical New York City (particularly Brooklyn) accent at the time.[[note]]This is better known as the [[Film/TheThreeStooges "Soitently!"]] accent and, in linguistics, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English#Coil%E2%80%93curl_merger coil-curl merger]].[[/note]]
* TakeThat: The title "Der Fuehrer's Face" alludes to the omnipresence of Hitler portraits in Nutzi land, but also evokes "into your face!".
* TheEnd: Spelled out by the drippings of a [[ProducePelting ripe tomato]] thrown at Hitler's face.
* ThoseWackyNazis: The butt of most of the humor, making the point that it sucks to be them.
* VillainSong: The introductory number performed by the Axis oompah band with Herman Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Hideaki Tojo, and UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini. All together now: "Ve heil! Heil! Right in [[TitleDrop der Fuehrer's face]]!"
** TheVillainSucksSong: The title song gets reprised as one later in the cartoon. Also note that the Music/SpikeJones's cover of the song only used the lyrics from the opening number praising Hitler, but Jones's ironic performance took it into HailToTheThief territory instead of a straight-up VillainSong.
* WartimeCartoon: An UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-winning example.
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: When Donald wakes up from his dream, he's wearing pajamas resembling the American flag.
* YellowPeril: The focus is on the Nazis, but Emperor Hirohito and Hideki Tojo get brief cameos. They look exactly as you'd expect them to in a cartoon like this.
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