Animation Under the Swastika : a History of Trickfilm in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 / Rolf Giesen and J.P. Storm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Optical lyric and shadow plays: the early history of German animation -- The march of the cigarettes -- Tilo Voss and the development of German sound cartoons -- How Walt Disney became Walter Distler: Snow White for greater Germany -- Global power for German trickfilm -- Puppet films: Starevich, Mecki the hedgehog, the Diehl brothers and Jürgen Clausen, the German "pal" -- An animation pioneer with a non-Aryan background: Wolfgang Kaskeline -- The phenomenology and psychology of cartoons -- Hans Held, troublemaker -- Kurt Stordel and Purzel: a self-proclaimed German Walt Disney and his dwarf -- Towards a German Disney empire -- The futile dream of a German cartoon factory: rise and fall of Deutsche Zeichenfilm G.m.b.H. -- Snow man and weather-beaten melody: Hans Fischerkoesen and Horst Von Möllendorff -- A surprising underwater cartoon from Prague: wedding at coral sea -- Deutsche Wochenshau and the "collaborators" of the Europäischer Zeichenfilm ring -- Bavaria, Munchausen and the town musicians of Bremen -- Animated maps to hail German victories: Svend Noldan -- Classified animation: training the military -- The aftermath: the postwar era of German animation -- The filmmakers: biographies -- Select filmography.