Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike (1943)
Genre : War, Documentary
Runtime : 42M
Director : Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Synopsis
The second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and the Nazis as its latest incarnation.
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