Hitler in Havana
"Hitler in Havana" is a classic Cold War call-to-arms portrays Castro’s Cuba as a clear and present danger to the United States. Drawing ominous parallels between Castro and Hitler, the film shows Cuba as a place of concentration camps and firing squads, hell-bent on foreign expansion and...
| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
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| Language: | English |
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INCA
1966
United States |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:dcae96a7-f8f0-4259-9d03-a072437ab3fd |
| Summary: | "Hitler in Havana" is a classic Cold War call-to-arms portrays Castro’s Cuba as a clear and present danger to the United States. Drawing ominous parallels between Castro and Hitler, the film shows Cuba as a place of concentration camps and firing squads, hell-bent on foreign expansion and communist subversion. Produced by the anti-communist organization INCA (Informational Council of the Americas), distributed to southern television markets in the mid-1960s, "Hitler in Havana" spotlights the growing threat of communism throughout the Americas, warning that "World War III may be fought in New Orleans and New York, not Normandy and Naples." But this is more than an alarmist period piece: the film offers rare and unique footage from the early days of Castro’s regime, smuggled into the United States by anti-Castro refugees, including scenes from the Bay of Pigs invasion and its aftermath. |
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| Published: | 1966 |