''Plan for Destruction'' is a 1943 American
short
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propaganda film
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directed by
Edward Cahn. It looks at the
Geopolitik
Geopolitik is a branch of 19th-century German statecraft, foreign policy and geostrategy.
It developed from the writings of various German philosophers, geographers and thinkers, including Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), Alexander Humboldt (1769- ...
ideas of the ex-
World War I
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professor, General
Karl Haushofer
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, who is portrayed as the head of a huge organisation for gathering information of strategic value and the mastermind behind
Adolf Hitler
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's wars and plans to enslave the world. The film was nominated for an
Academy Award
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for
Best Documentary Short.
Cast
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Lewis Stone
Lewis Shepard Stone (November 15, 1879 – September 12, 1953) was an American film actor. He spent 29 years as a contract player at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was best known for his portrayal of Judge James Hardy in the studio's popular '' Andy ...
as himself - Commentator
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Frank Reicher
Frank Reicher (born Franz Reicher; December 2, 1875 – January 19, 1965) was a German-born American actor, director and producer. He is best known for playing Captain Englehorn in the 1933 film ''King Kong''.
Early life
Reicher was born in Mu ...
as Karl Ernst Haushofer
*
George Lynn as Rudolf Hess
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1943 films
1940s short documentary films
Black-and-white documentary films
1943 short films
American short documentary films
American World War II propaganda shorts
American black-and-white films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films
Films directed by Edward L. Cahn
Documentary films about World War II
1940s English-language films
1940s American films
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