Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike

1943 · 42 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 1,005 VOTES · DIR. Anatole Litvak, Frank Capra

Overview

The second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and the Nazis as its latest incarnation.

Dialogue Timeline — 476 lines

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00:01:26 National Socialism Will reshape the World Adolf Hitler
00:03:26 Burning, looting, pillaging.
00:04:46 And in that 1/4 of the earth's surface, lies the World's Wealth.
00:06:40 ..and you dominate the World lsland.
00:08:03 He Was Waiting to soften up his victims, keep them from uniting.
00:09:27 Right in Madison Square Garden, U.S.A.
00:11:04 For those Who don't like it you don't eat.
00:12:34 ..designed to make man stop thinking and blindly obey
00:14:55 Hitler had his Siegfried Line, he had his equipment...
00:16:18 It Was merely only a full-scale invasion test and Hitler rode in triumph...
00:17:41 the portion of Czechoslovakia bordering Germany.
00:18:51 Some people We knoW of German decent think this is a lot of hogWash.
00:20:26 ..announced that Russia Was ready to back...
00:21:56 ..of the desire of our two peoples never to go to War With one another again.
00:23:21 ..in our time.
00:24:40 the Germans hoped they could lull Russia into a false sense of security.
00:26:07 ..even Worse.
00:27:15 From a military standpoint, the Poles Were hopelessly outclassed...
00:29:57 ..destroying communications, radio stations, poWer plants...
00:32:14 ..to the Polish capital.
00:33:45 ..for just such purposes and set into position around WarsaW.
00:35:51 For the Nazi master race theory calls for the complete Wiping out of the...
00:37:59 ..for Hitler thought impossible, Was anything but.
00:39:34 But nothing is more certain...

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed476
Dialogue density11.3 lines / min
First line00:01:26
Final line00:39:34

Production Record

DirectorAnatole Litvak, Frank Capra
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,005