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Plan for Destruction

Plan for Destruction

6,6 /10 (8 Votes)
1943 EN 22 min

Overview

Plan for Destruction is a 1943 American short propaganda film directed by Edward Cahn. It looks at the Geopolitik ideas of the ex-World War I professor, General Karl Haushofer, who is portrayed as the head of a huge organization for gathering information of strategic value and the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's wars and plans to enslave the world. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Release date

22/04/1943

Votes

8

Popularity

0.6

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

22 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-07-06

⭐ 6

I didn’t love Lewis Stone’s narration here, not least because he kept referring to Britain/British and England/English which always strikes me as lazy writing. That said, though, it’s still quite an interesting assessment of the forward-planning skills of former Imperial general Karl Haushofer (Frank Reicher). Following his defeat in the Great War he took up an academic position that not only facilitated his planning for the future domination of the world by a revitalised Germany but that also provided him with lots of fertile young and impressionable minds to indoctrinate. His former assistan…

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