The Nazis Strike

Released in 1943, it introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and the Nazis as its latest incarnation.

From the wilds of Mongolia rode a mighty army of fierce horsemen, led by Genghis Khan.

Set up at Munich was an institute devoted to the little-known science of geopolitics, vaguely defined as "the military control of space".

To the German geopolitician, the world is not made up of men and women and children, who live and love and dream of better things.

Hitler's step-by-step plan for world conquest can be summarized this way: Conquer Eastern Europe and you dominate the Heartland.

That was the dream in Hitler's mind as he stood at Nuremberg.The next focus of the film is the "softening-up" of the Western democracies by using fascist organizations such as the Belgian Rexists, the French Cross of Fire, the Sudeten German National Socialist Party of Konrad Henlein, the British Union of Fascists, and the German American Bund.

He then uses his Sudeten "stooges" under Henlein to "soften up" Czechoslovakia and to annex the Sudetenland with the help of a Britain and France, which are desperate to avoid war.

Hitler's use of the concept of self-determination as a justification for these annexations is ridiculed by reference to prominent German Americans thoroughly loyal to the Allied cause, such as Admiral Chester Nimitz, Henry J. Kaiser, Wendell Willkie and Senator Robert Wagner.

The film concludes with the quote by Winston Churchill from his speech to the Allied delegates in 1941: Polish-American historian Mieczysław B. Biskupski gave a harsh review, calling it "a conglomeration of patriotic exhortation, crackpot geopolitical theorizing, and historical mischief making.