Today's "RALLY" Tribute: British Nazi Satire

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"Hitler & the Gestapo Hep-Cats" Doing the Lambeth Walk, 1941. When Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister saw this film short he was so enraged that he reportedly ran out of the room kicking chairs and screaming profanities. The British Ministry of Information made the parody with edited footage of Leni Riefenstahl’s classic 1935 Nazi propaganda film 'Triumph of the Will.' A Nazi Party member had declared in 1939 that the popular new English dance, the 'Lambeth Walk' then taking hold in in Berlin, to be 'Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping.' The Danish Resistance had the film played in cinemas in WWII. https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/lambeth-walk-nazi-style-1942/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Will

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1. More on the Lambeth dance parody film,

Clip. Movie, 1937-39 showing the popular dance based on the zany, Cockney strut manner of walking and named for the Lambeth neighborhood of London.
Working class Lambeth was known for its musical and artistic traditions; the home of William Blake, Somerset Maugham, Charlie Chaplin, David Bowie, and many other notables. I've been there briefly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambeth

People should see "Triumph of the Will" (1935) classic Nazi propaganda film that clips of were used to make the Lambeth satire. *Scenes of the serious Nazi film can't be watched on YouTube due to the material.

The Nazi propaganda film partly influenced Charlie Chaplin's 1942 satire and anti Nazi film, "The Great Dictator." Hitler, who thought Chaplin was Jewish put him on the list. Chaplin worked and lived in the Lambeth neighborhood of London when young. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Will

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2. K&R! Great find!

Thanks for posting!