In this episode, we watch Hans Westmar so you don’t have to—an incoherent piece of Reich cinema that rewrites street violence, demonizes “cosmopolitan” Berlin, and ends with a Communist literally converting his raised fist into a Hitler salute.
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New Episode of Fascism on Film
The Nazis made comedies, romances, even musicals—none of them harmless. We break down Hitler’s Hollywood and the propaganda hidden in plain sight.
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New Episode of Fascism on Film!
Beneath the smoke, the piano, and the Hollywood glow, Casablanca is anti-fascist propaganda with a heartbeat.
A story about finding your conscience when the world’s on fire.
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New episode of Fascism on Film!
Everyone Loves to Hate a Nazi: Inglourious Basterds
We unpack Tarantino’s “movie about WWII movies,” from Hans Landa’s menace to Shoshanna turning cinema into a weapon—we ask what it means to cheer when the villains burn.
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François Truffaut’s The Last Metro is set inside a Paris theater under Nazi occupation. Every character is faced with a choice of how to survive. #fascismonfilm #fascism #filmhistory #truffaut #lastmetro #filmsky #moviesky
New Episode of Fascism on Film Podcast!
In The Last Metro, Truffaut shows how art survives fascism. Above the stage, they perform for the crowd; below it, they fight to stay alive.
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Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943)
In Vichy Casablanca, rounding up “the usual suspects” — liberals, refugees, anyone with the wrong papers — passes for justice. Fascism uses procedure for persecution.
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Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943)
In 1942, Rick’s “I stick my neck out for nobody” echoed America’s prewar mood — and a French collaborator approves.
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Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) schools us on the underlying ideology of fascism — the use of force.
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Hans Westmar (Franz Wenzler, 1933)
An Antifa group attacks a fascist in the street. But this isn’t resistance. It’s Nazi propaganda, recasting fascists as innocent victims of left-wing violence.
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Black Legion (Archie Mayo, 1937)
In 1937 Hollywood knew what fascism looked like.
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New Episode of the Fascism on Film Podcast!
Fritz Lang’s 'The Testament of Dr. Mabuse' was the first film banned by the Nazi Joseph Goebbels, who feared its depiction of chaos, hypnosis, and control might undermine the methods of the new regime.
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The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915)
In the film, the demand for equality is framed as a threat. Griffith depicts Black citizens calling for rights and land as chaos and disorder, turning multiracial democracy into the villain.
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New Episode of Fascism on Film Podcast
In this episode of the Fascism on Film Podcast, we discuss Joseph Losey’s 1976 masterpiece Mr. Klein, set in Nazi-occupied France.
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Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943)
No matter where you are, the usual suspects list always seems to start with the same people.
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933)
“This film was made as an allegory to show Hitler’s processes of terrorism. Slogans and doctrines of the Third Reich have been put into the mouths of criminals in the film.” Fritz Lang
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New Episode of the Fascism on Film Podcast!
Jean Renoir’s This Land Is Mine (1943) turns a Hollywood wartime drama into a story about fear, conscience, and the quiet choice to resist.
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Hans Westmar (Franz Wenzler, 1933)
This Nazi propaganda drama casts leftists as the villains. In this scene, workers rally against fascist terror, but the film frames antifascism itself as a street-level threat to order and national unity.
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None Shall Escape (André de Toth, 1944)
A Nazi officer, convicted of war crimes, issues an ominous warning.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Anatole Litvak, 1939)
After years abroad, a German-American woman describes her unsettling return to Germany.
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Hitler’s Children (Edward Dmytryk, 1943)
An American schoolgirl discovers a trick to fighting Nazis.
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Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943)
Conrad Veidt as Major Strasser — the Nazi who cancels laughter to hide his fear of it.
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Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973)
Fellini’s satirical staging of a Blackshirt rally shows townsfolk parading through the streets, chanting Fascist slogans.
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Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943)
In his darkest moment, Rick (Humphrey Bogart) envisions an America sleeping while the threats of fascism and heartbreak loom.
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The Last Metro (François Truffaut, 1980)
Sometimes seeing the hatcheck at a restaurant is enough to make you think about dining elsewhere.
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Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
The face of a ring opens to reveal a secret message, the Cross of Lorraine — a symbol of French resistance.
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The Last Metro (François Truffaut, 1980)
After 853 days in a cellar during the Nazi occupation of France, a Jewish man steps into the light. Spray-painted over German propaganda, a “V” for Victory combined with the Cross of Lorraine, the emblem of French resistance and liberation.
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Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935)
Throughout the film, Riefenstahl and her cameramen repeatedly return to this infinity mirror composition, which gives the impression of endless Nazis arrayed across time and space.
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The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915)
Imagine a president coming right out and endorsing a group of masked vigilantes bent on instilling fear and enacting violence against people for the color of their skin.
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