Reason and Emotion (Walt Disney Academy Awards) is another film that attempts to help Americans at home understand how Germany became entranced under the influence of Hitler and Goebels and how they themselves can resist such propaganda. The film depicts what damage can be done when individuals allow their reasoning and common sense to be overtaken by their emotions. As the narrator speaks images of newspapers with contradictory and emotionally charged, titles flash back and forth. The film is meant to show how headlines and news creates chaos if individuals allow themselves to believe everything they hear. The narrator explains how Adolf Hitler preys upon those who let fear and emotion rule them. The cartoon cuts to an animated Hitler controlling Germans through fear, hate, sympathy, and pride. The film ends with reason and emotion being told that they must work together with reason ruling over one's actions while emotions are to be focused on staying positive in the fight ahead.
Der Fuehrer's Face is one of the most popular propaganda cartoons produced by Walt Disney. The short film starts out with Wallace’s song playing in the background while a comical band of Nazi "super-duper supermen" perform. Disney pokes fun of Hitler’s Germany by depicting Donald eating breakfast by only spraying the scent of bacon and eggs onto his breath and dipping a single coffee bean into his cup of water. Hitler had promised the Germans great wealth and vast stores of food. Disney and the Army knew this and wanted to depict the Germans living in a land that was hollow of all the wonderful promises that Hitler made. Producers of the cartoon also wished to show that the working conditions of the factories were not as glorious as Hitler was making them sound in his speeches. Donald is worked continuously with very little compensation and time off. Though it seems Donald goes crazy he soon wakes up from his nightmare and is forever thankful for being a citizen of the United States of America.