''Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk'' is a 1942 short propaganda film by Charles A. Ridley of the UK Ministry of Information. It consists of edited existing footage taken from

Leni Riefenstahl Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, photographer and actress known for her role in producing Nazi propaganda. A talented swimmer and an artist, Riefenstahl also became in ...

's ''

Triumph of the Will ''Triumph of the Will'' (german: Triumph des Willens) is a 1935 German Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. Adolf Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his na ...

'' to make it appear as if they were dancing to the dance style

The Lambeth Walk "The Lambeth Walk" is a song from the 1937 musical '' Me and My Girl'' (with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay). The song takes its name from a local street, Lambeth Walk, once notable for its street mark ...

. The film was distributed uncredited to newsreel companies.

Alternative titles

The film has many alternative titles: * ''Hoch der Lambeth Valk'' * ''Germany Calling'' * ''Hitler Assumes Command'' * ''Lambeth Walk'' * ''Hoch Der Lambeth Walk'' * ''Hoch der Lambeth Valk: A Laugh-Time Interlude'' * ''Lambeth Walk – Nazi Style'' * ''Hitler Doing the Lambeth Walk'' * ''Schichlegruber – Doing the Lambeth Walk'' * ''Gen. Adolf Takes Over'' *''Panzer Ballet''

Background

was becoming popular in Berlin. In a speech that achieved attention in 1939, a speech about "revolution of private life" (one of the next big tasks of National Socialism in Germany), a member of the Nazi Party declared it "Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping". The name "Schichlegruber" derives from Adolf Hitler's father

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, who was illegitimate and originally named Alois Schicklgruber after his mother,

Maria Schicklgruber Maria Anna Schicklgruber (15 April 1795 – 6 January 1847) was the mother of Alois Hitler, and the paternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler. Family Maria was born in the village of Strones in the Waldviertel region of the Archduchy of Austria. ...

Reception

The film reportedly enraged

Joseph Goebbels Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the ''Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 19 ...

to the degree that he ran out of the screening room kicking chairs and screaming profanities. Members of the

Danish resistance The Danish resistance movements ( da, Den danske modstandsbevægelse) were an underground insurgency to resist the German occupation of Denmark during World War II. Due to the initially lenient arrangements, in which the Nazi occupation autho ...

would raid theatres and force the projectionists to show the film, among others. As a humorous mashup that satirizes its original footage, the film shares similarities to 21st century

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, particularly that of the post-2006 YouTube Poop.

References

Adam Green.
Lambeth Walk – Nazi Style (1942)
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, 20 June 2012. Schichlegruber - Doing the Lambeth Walk (1941) Release Info
, imdb.com. Retrieved 1 March 2020.

External links

*
Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style
on YouTube * {{Internet Archive short film, id=1942-01-07_Gen_Adolph_Takes_Over, name=Gen. Adolf Takes Over 1942 films British World War II propaganda films British black-and-white films