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Mickey: The Story of a Mouse

Hitler thunderingly forbade his people to wear the then-popular Mickey Mousebutton in...

Hitler thunderingly forbade his people to wear the then-popular Mickey Mouse
button in place of the swastika

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Hitler thunderingly forbade his people
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to wear the then-popular Mickey Mouse button in place of the swastika.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
28
Timestamp in Movie
00:46:59
Uploaded
Mar 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Tremolo Productions,ABC News Studios

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Movie Summary

Mickey Mouse is one of the most enduring symbols in our history. Those three simple circles take on meaning for virtually everyone on the planet.
Independence, liberty, freedom. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:06
Independence, liberty, freedom.
But with the wartime shorts that are produced to create morale, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:08
But with the wartime shorts that are produced to create mora...
Mickey's presence in World War II tended to rely on the home front. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:06
Mickey's presence in World War II tended to rely on the...
You see him on support posters, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:13
You see him on support posters,
If you were a child at that point in time or a family, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:10
If you were a child at that point in time or a family,
But you, as a creator, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:07
But you, as a creator,
And so, when wartime came, Mickey was already there. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:06
And so, when wartime came, Mickey was already there.
There was a village in Poland in which the entire village was destroyed by the Nazis. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:07
There was a village in Poland in which the entire village wa...
And there are images left from that village - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:11
And there are images left from that village
And it's a shocking image within the Holocaust museum - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:11
And it's a shocking image within the Holocaust museum
Children in the camps were dressed up in Mickey Mouse costume, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:11
Children in the camps were dressed up in Mickey Mouse costum...
There was actually a comic strip written by someone in the camps, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:13
There was actually a comic strip written by someone in the c...
And at the end, he erases Mickey and says, "Mickey's gone back to America." - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:12
And at the end, he erases Mickey and says, "Mickey'...
Mickey was in the Holocaust because Mickey represented the possibility of escape, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:10
Mickey was in the Holocaust because Mickey represented the p...
And those dictators understood very well that was not what they were offering. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:07
And those dictators understood very well that was not what t...
We kind of have to think of Mickey as, like, before World War II - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:06
We kind of have to think of Mickey as, like, before World Wa...
Come on, Your Highness. Utopia is yours. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:06
Come on, Your Highness. Utopia is yours.
This migration to the suburbs, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:15
This migration to the suburbs,
Walt has a suburban house, has a very set, conservative life, really. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:07
Walt has a suburban house, has a very set, conservative life...
And he's a person now who's gone through nervous breakdowns, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:09
And he's a person now who's gone through nervous b...