Movie: Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike

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Edvard Beneš
Edvard Beneš

Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain

Clementine Churchill
Clementine Churchill

Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill

Galeazzo Ciano
Galeazzo Ciano

Édouard Daladier
Édouard Daladier

Walter Huston
Walter Huston

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1943-01-01

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    6.3

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