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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.
Top Cast
Lewis Stone
Commentator
Frank Reicher
Karl Ernst Haushofer
George Lynn
Rudolf Hess
Frederick Giermann
Nazi Radio Announcer
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Rating
6.6/ 10
Release Date
1943-04-22
Runtime
22m
Genres
DocumentaryHistory
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CinemaSerf
6/10
•7/6/2025I 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 skil...