Was Walt Disney a Nazi?

[@StepBackHistory]

American history gets ever weirder and more interesting. Watch some more discussions of American history and culture here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmGae2N_oMydf8k

[@gojirabeaver9105]

Step Back History do a video on if Ronald Dahl was a Nazi

[@TheRezro]

It should be noted though that Disney behawior wasn't in fact uncommon or seen as out of order in his times (nowadays is other story). I generally tend to compere him to Lovecraft (a person witch clinical xenophobia who refuted many of his previous claims later in his life). For example also other companies were responsible for making propaganda cartoons also containing even larger amount of racism (Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry) when Disney himself was known to be a huge fan of Uncle Remus (fictional but still black character). Also there is huge difference between supporting Nazi party before and after war. Before the war people didn't know about death camps and were commonly ignoramus about they intentions. Disney company in fact tend to be more respectful then most of corporations. So in end did that was wrong? Yes, but do his bad reputation is justified? Not really.

[@tenhirankei]

He changed it from Mortimer to Mickey? That screams anti-Semitic!

[@jackgladder9724]

why might Disney hold those views? Surely an intelligent man like Disney had rational behind them

[@MythologywithMike]

Fun fact- It was actually Disney's wife who came up with the name Mickey Mouse. She hated Mortimer and pestered her husband to change it. Thankfully he did because Mickey has a much better ring than Mortimer.

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

...I like the name Mortimer better...

[@Erri_17]

Mortimer Goth disagrees.

[@ZooxMaze]

I heard "driectly" from Mickey Rooney, himself - in one of his biographical interviews, that it was HE, who Walt Disney named "Mickey Mouse" after...

[@JesusVelociraptor]

I prefer Mortikai.

[@JesusVelociraptor]

Oh so this chanell is wrong, and useless. Thanks.

[@WoodstockProd]

“[Disney] is as much a part of American culture as apple pie, burgers, and for profit medicine.” Ha! Fake laugh hiding real pain!

[@humanchannel7825]

@Matthew Neddeau I bet you do

[@glorytotheaprdeathtotheufl7917]

I wrote a scientific paper once on American Propaganda during WW2, and lets just say that Disney played a surprisingl big role in it.

[@TheRezro]

As does Werner, Marvel, DC and Hanach Barbera..

[@TheRezro]

@Uni BlackSister It isn't that that Disney deliberately did try spread propaganda. Most media companies were simply obligated to produce it at the time.

[@kamseeseverything1549]

Cos it's the SAME dude.

[@Ttegegg]

I mean what did you expect. Is the biggest war in human history

[@peckishparrot1041]

@@TheRezro marvel wasnt even made yet what are you on about

[@gadyariv2456]

Walt Disney Didn't create Mickey Mouse, Ub Iwerks did, he did almost all the work in Disney's early cartoons. Ub Iwerks designed the iconic character of Mickey Mouse and animated him, while Walt Disney the smart businessman took the credit and the money.

[@taylor3557]

Gad Yariv Disney created the character. Iwerks drew him

[@superquantumunitintelproce5222]

@@taylor3557 then his wife renamed him

[@kathrynthompson230]

Walt did draw Mickey/Mortimer. After wanting to make cartoons, Ub Iwerks helped make it real.

[@GoodmansGhost]

Ub Iwerks did a lot of work on Mickey, but he wasn't the sole creator. He just refined Disney's original mouse designs to arrive at the final look for Mickey.

[@JoelRiter]

You mean like how Steve Jobs came up with the idea of a personal computer but the Woz did all the work? Or how Stan Lee came up with the Marvel super hero concepts but Jack Kirby did all the actual work? Wow, it's almost like it's more profitable to steal from people and take credit.

[@iammrbeat]

Remember that time we went to Disneyland? Er, I mean, across the street from it?

[@StepBackHistory]

That I do

[@lillycline1414]

Oh hey

[@dennisyoung4631]

Not since childhood. Could not afford it as an adult, and later - 30 plus years ago - moved about a thousand miles north.

[@robbietorkelsonn8509]

I did, in Paris, huge disapointment to European standards

[@phillipherrera8447]

The Sherman brothers were Jewish. Everyone who writes condescending reports about Walt Disney seems to ignore inconvenient facts such as this.

[@Emilykrabappel]

Thank you for saying this.

[@TheDigitalApple]

Wasn’t X Atencio also Jewish?

[@teppichfliesestaubknauel5044]

This is literally the disney version of: I have female friends therefor I cannot be a misogynist.

[@petercdowney]

What's more, I do believe that Disney's current CEO Bob Iger is Jewish.

[@browsertab]

In 1938, a month after Kristallnacht, Disney personally welcomed Nazi director Leni Riefenstahl to his studios. In Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (the most thorough biography of the mogul), Neal Gabler explores the rumors but argues that Disney practiced tolerance in his home life. “There is some dispute whether the same spirit of tolerance extended to the studio, but of the Jews who worked there, it was hard to find any who thought Walt was an anti-Semite.” Believability: Gabler posits that the charges stemmed less from personal behavior and more from Disney’s association with the very anti-Semitic Motion Picture Alliance, which the CEO founded after a particularly bitter labor dispute in 1941. Even if he wasn’t personally anti-Semitic, Gabler allows that Disney “willingly, even enthusiastically, embraced [anti-Semites] and cast his fate with them.”

[@ArynWellspring]

Walt did not make a “handful” of Alice Comedies before moving on to Mickey. You skipped right over Oswald.

[@alexcarter8807]

Plus if you look around you can find some truly mind-bending Japanese animation largely based on Japanese folk tales etc. It's great stuff and we're talking 1920s so they were right up with Disney if not a bit ahead.

[@ArynWellspring]

@@alexcarter8807 Did you mean to comment this here?

[@starmaker75]

Well to be fair a lot of people were rasict and antisemtic during those times, many didn’t know the horrors of what the nazis would entailed(- does this ring any bells, cough single ethnic state supporters-). But on the other hand supporting the radical rasict is still very bad even in that times, it just that during that time, it was more likely to be rasict.

[@TheRezro]

It should be noted that many people at the time weren't aware that it was wrong (there is real case of black musician befriending KKK clan what lead to its closure). That is why racism today is a different story then back then.

[@honeyasonja522]

Feel sorry for the murderous racist rapist slavers and their offspring..... Says Nobody Ever S/b noted ✔

[@agfromdai.e3806]

That doesn't make it right

[@cysterforever1861]

Unkn0wn_289 I don’t understand that either

[@mikeblair2594]

@@TheRealUnkn0wn_289 $$$$$$$$$ clear enough?

[@MiMayonGo]

No, he accually hate those. He even made an anti nazi propaganda films

[@jackmonaghan8477]

Also, Disney was so right-wing he refused to lower the flag at Disneyland on the day JFK was assassinated and had a strained relationship with his workforce that resulted in a 1941 strike. And on the Capitalist side of things, we can see Michael Eisner and Bob Iger (and probably Bob Chapek if he becomes CEO next year) have pretty much picked up where Uncle Walt left off.

[@stacyjennings7087]

The reason why they didn’t lower the flag is because the all the flags at Disney world are fake, they don’t have the correct number of stars on them .they did that so they wouldn’t have to lower the flag every day

[@rotwang2000]

Disney was delusional in that he thought he was the greatest possible boss, viewing himself like some benevolent "Uncle overlord" and that his way was fair and that people truly loved him in return. When people were finally tired of working for peanuts he saw it as a personal insult and could not admit he might have been exploiting his employees, so he took the conclusion that some outside agitators must have been setting up people against him. It all stems from his relationship with his dad and some deep craving for love and recognition. That's why he became an artist at first and continued to delude himself he was making art that made everyone love him even after he had become one of the biggest businessmen in the US thanks to the tireless work of his brother Roy who was a tireless and talented organizer and made the Disney empire possible. If Disney had gone in alone we might have a few cartoons here and there and a story of one bankruptcy after another.

[@sailorbychoice1]

@@rotwang2000 It is easy to forget that he was paying his people what was considered _the going rate_ at the time, it isn't like there was another animator who was paying twice or three times what Disney paid, and Disney had chained his animators to their desks. The Unions were actively working against him because they were trying to overturn the entire structure. It's a matter of _the way of doing business_ was changing in the industry. Change takes time and often hurts.

[@rotwang2000]

@@sailorbychoice1 There were a ton of issues, and even if it's the going rate it still paid peanuts by most standards. Like some of his animators said, they were only marginally making more than the guys who slapped paint on sets, or never got anywhere near the going rate for say artwork in general. Disney may have meant well and may have genuinely believed he took good care of his people, and even if the wages were standard, what he did afterwards was pretty iffy at best, he refused to listen to grievances, convincing himself it was all one big communist plot and that nobody in their right mind would even think about being disrespectful of the mouse unless they had been brainwashed by Moscow. He hid his hatred of anyone behind "patriotic" organizations that were out to ruin the lives of anybody who dared to even show a social conscience ...

[@sailorbychoice1]

@@rotwang2000 But if you own a house painting business and you can hire people for $12.00 per hour, nearly everyone will pay their people $12 per hour. Employers don't just decide to pay everyone $20 per hour out of the kindness of their hearts, they pay the going rate. And it wasn't like his artists came to him and said, "we need a little more money here..." The Unions came in and took over the workforce and demanded more than what he was making. I don't care who you are, you can't make money if you are forced to spend more than you make. There were a great many businesses that closed because their employees Unionized and drove them out of business, and put everyone out on the street. The Unions didn't care because the higher ups in the Unions were often working for the Socialist Ideal which meant getting rid of the Capitalists and redistributing their wealth.

[@jaojao1768]

Have you ever heard about Carl Barks? Fun fact: Carl Barks was born the same year as Disney, but died in 2000

[@StepBackHistory]

Haven't heard of him.

[@jaojao1768]

Step Back History he was a animator for Disney who later became extremely popular in Europe for his Donald Duck comic books

[@djaevlenselv]

Never heard of Carl Barks!? He's only one of the world's greatest comic authors.

[@Literally-Brian]

Step Back History he created Scrooge McDuck

[@v.k.rt.m.6030]

@@jaojao1768 (C/K)arl (M/B)ar(ks/x)?

[@matucomedes]

Disney likes to pitch Walt as a progressive to its workers lol.... They didn't tell us any of this in "traditions" lml

[@TheRezro]

He was progressive for his times.

[@milascave2]

therezro: no, he wasn't.

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

@@TheRezro citation needed

[@TheRezro]

@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat After you give my for the opposite. Walt hated unions, but at the time everyone did consider them as outposts of communism. At the same time Disney did hire large number of minorities and they did have creative impact on they products. When for reminder Werner at the time make things like Censored Eleven, yet people try vilify Disney for some reason. And that with transparently stretched arguments like crows in Dumbo and Song of the South (what again was progressive work at the time). It is hypocritical. 0_0

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

@@TheRezro union membership was actually fairly high by u.s. standards from the 30's to the early 70's. Unions were certainly hated by a large number of people (not coincidentally wealthy business owners in particular) but membership during this time was generally considered one of the highest points in American history. The crowd in dumbo are a literal play on jim crow (seriously it's practically their name). This not obscure nor is it heavily commented on in the movie. They are a surface level caricature and you really should know exactly why if you know anything about American race relations. Jim crow was still a major thing when Dumbo was released. Song of the south may as well be retitled "paternalistic slavery: the movie" and, given that we are on a history KZbin channel, I shouldn't need to explain why that depiction is wrong. This one is sadly probably the most forgivable as even some of the younger people (not just racist grandparents) seem to genuinely believe this, even though all historical evidence points to the vast majority of enslavers (as more recent history books are calling slave owners) being horribly abusive, at best. Also, as the video we are commenting under points out, Walt never denounced the nazis for the whole antisemitism thing and participated in political organizations that amounted to basically just antisemitism, despite living well past the holocaust. Just because he wasn't the most racist cartoonist for his time doesn't mean he wasn't racist.

[@NobodyNewsNetwork]

Walt Disney played the role of Hitler. Disney's propaganda was not limited to cartoons.

[@rgsenerman]

Yep, thank u..... OPERATION PAPERCLIP

[@marcr9541]

Meryl Streep is not related to Walt Disney. Disney's grand niece supported Streep's criticism of Walt.

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

I met a Greenpeace member who was adopted by a relative of Disney.

[@rockstarsharma53]

No .... No he wasn't there were many Jews who worked as film director's for him and he even fired someone for being anti Semitic

[@TheRezro]

He was more a anti-communist. It is also possible that like Lovecraft he changed worldview over time.

[@Emilykrabappel]

And two of Disney’s song writers, the Sherman brothers, were also Jewish

[@jasperbistro2157]

LOL of course Meryl Streep is related to Walt Disney

[@raymondfrye5017]

Meryl Streep?...related to Disney?...How so?

[@damenwhelan3236]

@@raymondfrye5017 I guess The cia killed them to keep it a secret.

[@loveycat5474]

Walt's wife suggested he call him Mickey Mouse.

[@ssatva]

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[@StepBackHistory]

Damn, you got me convinced. I should take a lookie loo

[@merbst]

Now do Henry Ford!

[@ofbelair67]

Hitlers lifesized portrait of Henry Ford behind his desk lmao

[@damenwhelan3236]

Streep is NOT Disney grand niece. Abigail Disney is. Abigail and Streep both publically denounced Walt Disney for his racism and antisemitism. They're not the same person.

[@DammitBobby]

This channel has great things coming in its future. Keep up the good work

[@StepBackHistory]

Cheers!

[@willmickel71]

Anyone claiming Walt Disney was a Nazi is running a propaganda campaign.

[@koichidignitythief7429]

Most of their sources come from Family Guy jokes.

[@bobcatt2294]

What is a NAZI? You hear it used all the time. Who created the name?

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

Walt Disney was a right bastard

[@schizoidboy]

One thing to keep in mind two of the most vicious racist groups, the Nazis and the Klu Klux Klan, didn't initially side completely with one another. In fact one Nazi propaganda poster showed a monster wearing a Klan hood on it representing the allied powers, and after the war not many Klansmen wanted any sort of connection with the Nazis because of the war. This did change but it points to the differences that existed between the groups despite their apparent similarities in ideologies (although it should be pointed out that Nazi ideology is based on a form of National Socialism which might be very different than the original Klan's political views.) I'm just hearing about Disney being at the Bund here for the first time, this needs to be confirmed, and chances are the FBI, which tracked everyone famous in those days, would have a file on Disney, especially during the WWII. It should be kept in mind that during WWII the military had control of the animation studios at the time and could approve or disapprove of what was being made. If they felt Disney, which was not the powerhouse in those days - Bugs Bunny was starting to become the major American character of the time, was not on their side they would have noted it somewhere in their files. Moreover, there were British agents also poking around Hollywood at the time, including the writer of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl who was working on a film about Gremlins with the Disney studios. Dahl was an invalidated Airman at the time but he was also spying for the British especially in Hollywood, and if he also felt that Disney was friendly towards the Nazis he was bound to report it to his handlers in England... Incidentally I saw Victory Thru Airpower and this was probably one of the reasons Germany got bombed into submition during the war. Before bombing were more punitive rather than strategic and the cartoon makes the best argument for using bombers as weapons of strategy rather than just terror bombing. Disney had views that were common for his time but not to our own. He was more a capitalist but not a Nazi. People forget you could be an anti-Semite but not sympathetic to the Nazis. If he was anti-Semite it might have had more to do with his religious upbringing than anything Hitler was shoving out. Something else the House UnAmerican Activities group also investigated the Bunds as well as the Communists before the war, and the FBI also monitored them as well. They might have targeted Communists - who were looking to overthrow America as well as the Nazis, but they certainly weren't trying to put the Bunds in power, who were always small compared to the rest of the American population - they never totaled more than eight thousand members or even less.

[@GEEZYEA777]

The KKK has a local authoritarian aspect to them. Whereas Nazi was more totalitarian. That’s why the differences exist but let’s not be mistaken. Nazi admired America and their playbook they implemented on natives. If a klansman didn’t like Nazism it was moreso a personal issue considering the standard stance during that era was pretty much neutral on Nazism or to follow suit behind the original Nazis (America).

[@newbloomwon]

Didn’t some former Nazis help design Disney Land? That’s what the book Fast Food Nation mentions.

[@gameboypunk660]

Didn't some former nazis build our space program

[@pierregibson6699]

@@gameboypunk660 and Most of the current Fortune 500 companies

[@alexanderfrankel8841]

And nasa

[@averysillyman69420]

I love how you’re wearing a Lucio shirt while talking about this.

[@maxchapman6961]

A sign of true intelligence

[@lmckeenan]

What is Lucio?

[@averysillyman69420]

@@lmckeenan black guy

[@Ivvyfay]

@@lmckeenan Video game character.

[@A5AP_SWEATSHIRT]

Also very wrinkled

[@neurotransmissions]

I remember the first time I watched Disney propaganda in a class on the World Wars and thinking it was a joke. Nope! Just Disney doing animations for the war effort. Wild!

[@TheRezro]

Like also Werner and many others.

[@milascave2]

neuro: In those days, everybody had to support the war. My father told me how, when the USA entered WW 2, people started writing a newspaper asking why comic strip character Joe Palooka had not joined the military. The newspaper had to explain that the strip was done two weeks in advance. Then, with no transition, Joe Palooka was suddenly fighting in the jungles of the Pacific.

[@SindyxLotus]

So he was an anti-semite. Hmm, guess American Dad! is more accurate than I thought.

[@marianotorrespico2975]

Sindy --- Correct.

[@awg-9213]

@Sindy. family guy did a beauty on this

[@curtisthomas2670]

Was fairly common among big business elites of the time, eg Ford, one reason probably being the perceived connection between Jevvs and hated socialist worker's unions.

[@mikeblair2594]

@@curtisthomas2670 Or any unions. Look up between two wars season one and watch the episode on Henry Ford. Its on the KZbin channel "Time ghost". They spell out a lot of bullshit that went on in that era.

[@mynardomacaraig2697]

Walt Disney had a lot of Jewish friends including other Hollywood big shots. This whole thing looks like blatant, poorly researched character assassination.

[@JohnStanworth]

Hating them and not wanting them to take over his company to promote communist/ woke ideology are two, seperate things.

[@alexcarter8807]

@@JohnStanworth Communist? Don't threaten us with a good time.

[@FedorSteeman]

I had no idea Walt Disney's influence on USA was so grim! :-O

[@TheRezro]

Still they far from the worst.

[@harrysonofbob]

Was it?

[@jimmybuffet4970]

Meryl Streep is not related to Disney.

[@himanshubansla97]

Fun fact, its not the Swastika, stop maligning the Hindu symbol of peace, call it the Christian Hakkenkruez as Nazis did.

[@rgsenerman]

Look up OPERATION PAPERCLIP to see Disney's affiliation and look for yourself.

[@andthatsshannii]

Meryl Streep isn’t Disney’s grandniece. She was just supported by his grandniece, Abigail Disney.

[@mikhailabunidal9146]

No,he wasn't a Nazi

[@grassdungeon8433]

Sure had the beliefs of one

[@makubegysman6160]

5:25 that's where we reach the topic

[@whatisthis1491]

Like ford, the answer is yes he was

[@wolf2912]

Compared to Ford Disney is a angel

[@mickeyrube6623]

5:35 "one thing he never criticised, was their anti-semitism..." I don't know. In "Education of Death", there is a scene where a German woman wants to name her child "Hans". The Nazi official points to a verboten list of names. Franklin and Winston top the list, for obvious reasons, but the rest of the list are obvious hebrew name, in origin at least. Names like David are common enough among christians, but Miriam and Amos? I mean c'mon.

[@MercyS26]

FACT: Thursday is the most unless day of the week and it stands in my way to Friday. BETTER FACT: Step Back History videos being released on Thursday is the only thing keeping me from making Thursdays disappear forever. Definitely my favorite new channel to have subscribed to in 2018.

[@StepBackHistory]

Well damn if this comment didnt make my morning

[@Phrenotopia]

That band Fishbone I mentioned in the livestream wrote a very relevant song called "Fight the Youth". Check it out! :-)

[@Vic35102]

Disney does not like Jews he also did not like black people He called the dwarfs Derogatory names he asked a girl who worked in the art department if she was Jewish

[@gandalflotr2898]

This why I gonna pee his mosoleum

[@RamnaViaz]

You forgot the part where he was given a spider mech body and tried to eat Elian Gonzalez just to be shot in the head by Fidel Castro.

[@StepBackHistory]

Is this some glorious movie I never saw?

[@RamnaViaz]

Step Back History it's from the adult swim show robot chicken, look it up, it's on KZbin, search walt Disney robot chicken.

[@CB-he8if]

Excellent content. Thank you for this.

[@bills1967]

My dad, uncles and aunts remember reading a lot of topolino(Topolino is Mickey Mouse’s name in Italian) comics back in Somalia. My uncle is still has contact with his pen pal from Verona to this day.

[@SunflowerSocialist]

Walt Disney and I are both Kansas City natives

[@bigsuz]

I like these new groupings under categories. Even if I don't know what the topic is or why I should care, these taxonomies are hard to do and reflect well on your ability as a historian to ground these things in a reality we can see from our present POV.

[@BoomTribeEntertainment]

I always wondered why Mickey said hot dog. Now it makes sense

[@Pfhorrest]

"I'm so sick of talking about Nazis." -- Be careful you don't follow the History Channel's path: History -> Hitler -> Hurrr. I can't imagine you ever getting to the hurr stage ("I'm not saying it's aliens, but..."), but it sounds like you're almost halfway into the Hitler stage. ;)

[@StepBackHistory]

+Pfhorrest I wouldn't do it if we didn't apparently just decide to give fascism another try

[@milascave2]

pforrest: Some people called it "The Hitler Channel." But that was when Nazis were mostly history, not current events.

[@solrac4512]

Pfhorrest made a video on Roswell

[@koichidignitythief7429]

@@milascave2 I get what you mean but quit acting like Nazis just now started coming back just because Trump was elected. I swear stuff like this happens every time a Republican becomes president and then everyone forgets about it once a Democrat comes to power. White Supremacy has been around forever, period, and it's not going to completely go away. We just need to be aware of its constant presence.

[@v.k.rt.m.6030]

@@koichidignitythief7429 funny how we say this but Ex-Nazis ran West Germany, which was funded by NATO.

[@crittercam9565]

Pharoah had Jews working on his set too.

[@brendanfletcher5216]

Hi, fellow Canadian and I love your stuff. Unfortunately, I believe you've mispoken. Meryl Streep is not Walt Disney's grandniece. Instead, after Meryl Streep ranted an indictment of Walt Disney and his racism, Disney's neice Abigail Disney spoke out and confirmed the bigotry of her great uncle.

[@honeyasonja522]

And now the kkkrazy lazy girl lies on Kobe Bryant for some attention..apple didnt fall far from the rotted tree we 👀 see..predictable.

[@deadendkid1968]

Ub Iwerks was the artist that gave us Mickey...I lived a block away from the ruins that was his studio in KC...

[@martymcfly4654]

If he did hate Jews then it's kinda ironic cause I swear since his passing they've had two Jewish ceo's Micheal Eisner and Bob iger correct me if I'm wrong about them being Jewish

[@lucastruesdale6658]

Meryl Streep is not related to Disney I like 2 articles saying it but her family tree says different

[@bfdavdb]

Fun fact it was actually Disney’s mother-in-law who came up with the name Mickey after telling Walt that Mortimer is not an appealing name

[@wolf2912]

That was his wife

[@podemosurss8316]

5:06 Well, that book was written by Sir Arthur Harris, commander of the RAF Bomber Command, so I guess Churchill already knew.

[@katrinamarina4692]

walt's wife thought mickey was a better name. Mortimer kind of an unusual mouth full.

[@elcabbage2306]

Fantastic video as always, Triston! I would gladly volunteer to help in some way if only I had those pesky qualifications or education 😜 keep it up, man, I watch every new video that comes out because I just look through my subscription feed 🤙

[@ottodachat]

I heard when Walt hired his brother Roy to be an administrator or producer of the studio, his first day on the job, he told his staff, "get rid of the Jews!" ? I recently was told of this by a film collector. .

[@northwestnightmaresenterta9917]

Sounds like a big pile of bullshit as Walt had numerous Jewish people on his head animation team.

[@dragonmaster613]

What is your source for claiming Merrill Streep is related to Disney?

[@kristiaiaian]

I am studying Walt Disney in school right now, this actually helped me out!

[@B-Bigbawz]

"Why do they have to become relevant again?" no idea

[@coolguysam11200]

Disney’s gonna sue Walt Disney for using the name Disney without Disney’s permission

[@lulul0l039]

Somehow I can't get over how that one TV-program I saw as a kid apparently lied about the cryogenic stashing of Walt Disney's body. Nazi sympathy/antisemitism I knew about, but this... I often entertained myself with idea of Disney being resurrected in future and being shocked by bombardment of new moral standards. Edit: Someone citing diary's or personal letter's content at him would be pretty raw and hella confusing. "Whose Twitter and how do they know about that?!"

[@StepBackHistory]

Sorry about your loss... of a frozen walt disney brain.

[@lulul0l039]

@@StepBackHistory 👌😂 Yeah, It's rough, but I guess I have to accept it

[@jesebsp]

before the holocaust museum became permanent, they had a temporary installation. they had a room showing animation and other videos created by jews. there was one that was basically a rough draft for disney fantasia. same music set to animation. after watching your video and another talking about disney meeting with nazis, it really raises my first thought when seeing the movie at the museum... did disney rip this off.

[@silhouette9108]

It played an ad for Kissimmee Florida before this video haha

[@Disco.Wizard]

Have always loved this channel and also 12Tone, had no idea he did the theme music though that's cool!

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

This comment section certainly has a lot of garbage.

[@josephwilliammarek9566]

Marvel fans are glad Disney bought Fox, because it brought almost all the Marvel characters under one roof.

[@kristiaiaian]

You just gained a new subscriber... C:

[@StepBackHistory]

+sirK welcome aboard!

[@FedorSteeman]

Looks like Phrenomythic's comment was auto-marked as possible spam...

[@Phrenotopia]

Fedor Steeman Yup.

[@ethanweeter2732]

Evidently Mortimer was too Yiddish for Walt. 🤦‍♂️

[@freekashyyyk896]

Love the lucio shirt!

[@StepBackHistory]

Cheers!

[@alexcarter8807]

Anti-Semitism was mainstream until amazingly recent times in the US.

[@wolf2912]

Manny want to forgett that before holucast manny people hated jews

[@evanwilson2465]

That's not true! Walt Disney was never a nazi.

[@Luke-sl1yv]

Yeah he was

[@evanwilson2465]

Disney was never an anti-semite. It was a rumor! They 've been lying to us all along!

[@evanwilson2465]

No! He wasn't! You're saying stuff that's not true!

[@tritonics3118]

@@Luke-sl1yv This isn't even nazi supporting , they were making fun of thier enemy by making episodes of them.

[@anonymous36247]

Steamboat Willie was the first with synchronized sound. The galloping gaucho was Mickey's first appearance

[@darnfrick3354]

Disney Employees: "Hail Hydra!"

[@JesusVelociraptor]

Dude, that's my hairline, I am 29. What do I do? Go bald and get ripped? Rogaine shit? Nothing!?

[@jamespanciotti3960]

you can use copy written material if you are commenting on. see the fair use doctrine.

[@thebrinksf69]

Summary: No

[@tylersguide]

Luci - oh - oh - oh my god i didnt realize walt disney was a nazi...

[@timothywalsh866]

Haha. There was a Disney ad on this video

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

"Der Fuhrer's Face" was also a hit song for a time after the release of the cartoon, which goes to show how shit the popular music scene was back then. The more things change, huh? Also, most of the caricatures were of the racist variety, not just the Japanese, though it's important to note that the Japanese had the absolute worst wartime type-casting of the war - they were basically dehumanized to a ridiculous degree. Also notable about this - unlike most propaganda of the time for the US, the Disney cartoons actually played up stereotypes of the Germans as well as Italians and Japanese - you wont see a lot of other bits of US propaganda doing that, for the obvious reasons that the Germans and Americans of the time weren't so different and a LOT of powerful Americans were in touch with their German ancestry to various degrees.

[@ERASEREPLACEPLACE]

When I was in school. a transfer student told me that Disney made differences between the dog "Pluto" and the dog "Goofy" on purpose. Pluto was supposed to be a regular dog while Goofy was alleged to personify a Jewish person as being a dog that is able to walk on two legs. Still haven't found any significant proof that that this Pluto/Goofy notion is true in any way true though. When this tale is repeated as truth I just get a sense that there's a lot of "personal projection" going on.

[@alexcarter8807]

Transfer students can be weird. I had one tell me that she's always understood the theme to The Beverly Hillbillies to go "shootin' at some Jews" when it's "shootin' at some food". It took some urging on my part to get her to realize it isn't worded that way.

[@bigrigJim]

I know a lot of Jews in the U.S. , and trust me they are experts at playing the "victim card" .

[@markmenning1804]

I don't know about what you are saying here

[@diggLincoln]

Hitler was Walt Disney same person

[@RiggsBF]

Nope, only one of those 2 used that scary metric system.

[@Durrutitv]

It's a little known fact that Snow White's production title was Aryan Tradwife.

[@milascave2]

Another fun fact: every noticed how Mickey Mouse, like other early cartoon charactors such as Felix the Cat, is Black? That's because they were based on the old Minstel shows, featuring white men in black face, which are regarded as racist by pretty much everybody.

[@koichidignitythief7429]

Or because film and animation technology could only make black and white colors they designed them around that?

[@hopedream11]

@@koichidignitythief7429 Mickey Mouse while not directly inspired by blackface nor any racist character mainly, did take heavy influence from the negative stereotypes of African Americans and to a small extent blackface in his character. There is a theory he was directly inspired by Jiagboo a racial caricature of AA's but this is false and was taken out of context as far as I'm aware.

[@sophiawilson8696]

This wouldn't surprise me.

[@martinhg98]

Is ok to be mean agest your enemy in a war.

[@LeighMet]

To buy Fox Disney had to sell off alot of its comunications stuff such as all the Sports channels it had.

[@wuggawuggaspritzelbo]

Why do you hate groups? Is that because of social distancing protocols?

[@trapezeoidthreelobed7683]

The New step is the goose step

[@awg-9213]

some opportunistic rt. winger will prob try to market jack boots and brown shirts fashionable again . just shoot me

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

@@awg-9213 I think it might be some neoconnish Antifa person who will try it

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

What does it say when our childhoods were dominated by constant VHS playbacks of classic animated masterpieces overseen by an anti-Semitic movie mogul before we were even born? Well, for one thing, that we should have been prepared for watching many movies in theaters overseen and overpromoted by a rapist.

[@stanleysessor6993]

It wouldn't surprise me.

[@A.Mayflower127]

Great video but a few minor nitpicks. if Disney didn’t buy Fox the company would have lost 50,000+ jobs. If Comcast bought it they wouldn’t have much use out of the properties since they already produce adult content and art films, the only thing they would need would be X-Men. But Disney has marvel and now they have basically all their characters back also before the purchase they had no Adult content and no Artsy Films (they tried some but it never succeeded). Blu Sky Is the only real thing they don’t need but I mean blu Sky might keep running. So the government and Fox had 3 options. Give it to a company that doesn’t need it (Comcast). Give it to a company that could use it and keep jobs (Disney) or give it to nobody and Fox looses everything. Also Walt Disney is not The Disney Company!!!!!!

[@StepBackHistory]

monopolies don't make you nervous?

[@A.Mayflower127]

Step Back History It’s not a Monopoly, and before Fox Disney had a Monopoly, It’s a Disney Villain released via Hasbro 😂

[@A.Mayflower127]

Step Back History though I really enjoy your videos, I am a huge Disney fan and will defend it with my soul

[@StepBackHistory]

@@A.Mayflower127 fair enough. I just want Hank hill in kingdom hearts

[@A.Mayflower127]

Step Back History Lol! What about a Xenamorph? 😂

[@TheYaq]

his mother was half german

[@yeahbronah6319]

INSANELY SUREAL AND INTERESTING