Peace by Adolf Hitler

Series

Series Name

The March of Time 7th Year

Issue

Issue No.

4

Date Released

Oct 1941

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Peace by Adolf Hitler

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1 / 1

Summary

The March of Time synopsis: "Peace - by Adolf Hitler", the latest March of Time reviews the tragic story of all "peace" pacts made by Hitler since his rise to power as the German Fuehrer, documenting its pictorial record of Hitler’s broken promises with exclusive pictures from inside Nazi-dominated Europe. The film first surveys the life of the British people today, the continuous work of their Army, Navy and Air Force, the calmness and determination of the civilian population, the growing confidence that ultimate victory will come more quickly now that American and is beginning to count as a vital factor. But as the R.A.F. strikes harder and deeper into Germany, and the German army faces a long and bitter campaign in U.S.S.R., a German peace offensive is rumoured in England and the United States.

This new propaganda offensive, the film reveals, is designed to achieve a negotiated peace that would leave Hitler master of Europe, and rich with the spoils of war. In America this peace move has some support amongst isolationists. Nazi-sympathisers, and others who are earnestly devoted to the ideal of peace but not fully cognizant of the peril of dealing with Hitler. No conqueror, The March of Time points out, has ever exploited more shrewdly than Hitler the technique of systematic falsehood and betrayal. In taking over each of the fifteen countries he has conquered to date, Hitler has loudly reiterated that Germany seeks only peace. From the German march into the demilitarised Rhineland and Hitler’s subsequent declaration that he had no territorial demands to make in Europe, the film follows Hitler’s routine line of action from the conquest of Austria, to the attack on Soviet Russia. On each occastion appeasers have taken Hitler at his word, have repeately allowed him to prepare for further conquest and have themselves eventually succumbed to his war machine. Peace - by Adolf Hitler is a clear-cut warning against making any peace with a victorious Hitler. And today, in the case of the United States, in spite of the activities of isolationists and pro-Nazis, the American people are united in their resistance to any Nazi propaganda and in their determination to refuse any peace offer which may be made by Adolf Hitler, but, in the words of Wendell Wilkie, "will not rest nor falter until Adolf Hitler and all that he stands for is forever banished from this earth".

Researcher Comments

This story was included in Vol.7 No.13 of the US edition.

Keywords

Politics and government; Foreign relations; War and conflict

Written sources

Documentary News Letter   Vol.2 No.10 October 1941, p189.
Fielding, Raymond. The March of Time 1935-1951 (New York, 1978)   p271.
The March of Time Promotional Material   Lobby Card, Used for synopsis

Credits:

Production Co.

Time Inc.