But it was the Jones version that soldiers would sing to boost morale, blowing raspberries right in der Führer‘s face. The cartoon, which features Donald Duck having a nightmare that he lives in Germany under the Nazi regime was made in an effort to sell war bonds.

It was a major radio hit. Der Fuehrer's Face is a 1943 American animated anti-Nazi propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, created in 1942 and released on January 1, 1943 by RKO Radio Pictures. Wallace arranged it as an oompah band opener for a Donald Duck cartoon, which put the unintelligible fowl in a nightmarish place called Nutsiland. It takes real talent to be perfectly silly.

Comic bandleader Spike Jones (not the Jonze with a z) and his City Slickers turned the big band on its head, playing truly zany parodies of well-known tunes. This featured in the 1943 Disney animated propaganda short film Der Fuehrer's Face. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlFBSRrSR0]. Before the short was released, the song was recorded and made popular by the late Spike Jones and his City Slickers. His big break came in 1942, when “Der Fuehrer’s Face” hit the airwaves, poking fun at the Nazis at the height of World War II. Oliver Wallace wrote the song for a Disney project during a time when the studio was a major cog in the war-propaganda machine. "Der Fuehrer's Face " was without a doubt Disney's most popular wartime accomplishment in the 1943 animated short of the same name.

Our critics pick the most extraordinary English-language popular recordings since the beginning of TIME magazine in 1923. The cartoon — filled with caricatures of Axis power figures and effeminate jokes that wouldn’t pass in our politically correct times — came out in 1943 and replaced the birdaphone rasps with bleats of tuba. Oliver Wallace wrote the song for a Disney project during a time when the studio was a major cog in the war-propaganda machine. All rights reserved. His big break came in 1942, when “Der Fuehrer’s Face” hit the airwaves, poking fun at the Nazis at the height of World War II. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film , the only Donald Duck film to receive the honor.

But it was the Jones version that soldiers would sing to boost morale, blowing raspberries right in der Führer‘s face. The cartoon, which features Donald Duck having a nightmare that he lives in Germany under the Nazi regime was made in an effort to sell war bonds.

It was a major radio hit. Der Fuehrer's Face is a 1943 American animated anti-Nazi propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, created in 1942 and released on January 1, 1943 by RKO Radio Pictures. Wallace arranged it as an oompah band opener for a Donald Duck cartoon, which put the unintelligible fowl in a nightmarish place called Nutsiland. It takes real talent to be perfectly silly.

Comic bandleader Spike Jones (not the Jonze with a z) and his City Slickers turned the big band on its head, playing truly zany parodies of well-known tunes. This featured in the 1943 Disney animated propaganda short film Der Fuehrer's Face. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlFBSRrSR0]. Before the short was released, the song was recorded and made popular by the late Spike Jones and his City Slickers. His big break came in 1942, when “Der Fuehrer’s Face” hit the airwaves, poking fun at the Nazis at the height of World War II. Oliver Wallace wrote the song for a Disney project during a time when the studio was a major cog in the war-propaganda machine. "Der Fuehrer's Face " was without a doubt Disney's most popular wartime accomplishment in the 1943 animated short of the same name.

Our critics pick the most extraordinary English-language popular recordings since the beginning of TIME magazine in 1923. The cartoon — filled with caricatures of Axis power figures and effeminate jokes that wouldn’t pass in our politically correct times — came out in 1943 and replaced the birdaphone rasps with bleats of tuba. Oliver Wallace wrote the song for a Disney project during a time when the studio was a major cog in the war-propaganda machine. All rights reserved. His big break came in 1942, when “Der Fuehrer’s Face” hit the airwaves, poking fun at the Nazis at the height of World War II. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film , the only Donald Duck film to receive the honor.

But it was the Jones version that soldiers would sing to boost morale, blowing raspberries right in der Führer‘s face. The cartoon, which features Donald Duck having a nightmare that he lives in Germany under the Nazi regime was made in an effort to sell war bonds.

It was a major radio hit. Der Fuehrer's Face is a 1943 American animated anti-Nazi propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, created in 1942 and released on January 1, 1943 by RKO Radio Pictures. Wallace arranged it as an oompah band opener for a Donald Duck cartoon, which put the unintelligible fowl in a nightmarish place called Nutsiland. It takes real talent to be perfectly silly.

Comic bandleader Spike Jones (not the Jonze with a z) and his City Slickers turned the big band on its head, playing truly zany parodies of well-known tunes. This featured in the 1943 Disney animated propaganda short film Der Fuehrer's Face. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlFBSRrSR0]. Before the short was released, the song was recorded and made popular by the late Spike Jones and his City Slickers. His big break came in 1942, when “Der Fuehrer’s Face” hit the airwaves, poking fun at the Nazis at the height of World War II. Oliver Wallace wrote the song for a Disney project during a time when the studio was a major cog in the war-propaganda machine. "Der Fuehrer's Face " was without a doubt Disney's most popular wartime accomplishment in the 1943 animated short of the same name.

Our critics pick the most extraordinary English-language popular recordings since the beginning of TIME magazine in 1923. The cartoon — filled with caricatures of Axis power figures and effeminate jokes that wouldn’t pass in our politically correct times — came out in 1943 and replaced the birdaphone rasps with bleats of tuba. Oliver Wallace wrote the song for a Disney project during a time when the studio was a major cog in the war-propaganda machine. All rights reserved. His big break came in 1942, when “Der Fuehrer’s Face” hit the airwaves, poking fun at the Nazis at the height of World War II. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film , the only Donald Duck film to receive the honor.

But it was the Jones version that soldiers would sing to boost morale, blowing raspberries right in der Führer‘s face. The cartoon, which features Donald Duck having a nightmare that he lives in Germany under the Nazi regime was made in an effort to sell war bonds.

It was a major radio hit. Der Fuehrer's Face is a 1943 American animated anti-Nazi propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, created in 1942 and released on January 1, 1943 by RKO Radio Pictures. Wallace arranged it as an oompah band opener for a Donald Duck cartoon, which put the unintelligible fowl in a nightmarish place called Nutsiland. It takes real talent to be perfectly silly.

Comic bandleader Spike Jones (not the Jonze with a z) and his City Slickers turned the big band on its head, playing truly zany parodies of well-known tunes. This featured in the 1943 Disney animated propaganda short film Der Fuehrer's Face. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlFBSRrSR0]. Before the short was released, the song was recorded and made popular by the late Spike Jones and his City Slickers. His big break came in 1942, when “Der Fuehrer’s Face” hit the airwaves, poking fun at the Nazis at the height of World War II. Oliver Wallace wrote the song for a Disney project during a time when the studio was a major cog in the war-propaganda machine. "Der Fuehrer's Face " was without a doubt Disney's most popular wartime accomplishment in the 1943 animated short of the same name.

Our critics pick the most extraordinary English-language popular recordings since the beginning of TIME magazine in 1923. The cartoon — filled with caricatures of Axis power figures and effeminate jokes that wouldn’t pass in our politically correct times — came out in 1943 and replaced the birdaphone rasps with bleats of tuba. Oliver Wallace wrote the song for a Disney project during a time when the studio was a major cog in the war-propaganda machine. All rights reserved. His big break came in 1942, when “Der Fuehrer’s Face” hit the airwaves, poking fun at the Nazis at the height of World War II. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film , the only Donald Duck film to receive the honor.