Nazi Eyes On Canada, part 5: Alameda (starring Orson Welles)
Last chance. Things are not looking up for Canada, which needs every penny you can
spare, every penny beyond basic living expenses, for the War effort.
Every penny is needed to prevent Nazi Eyes On Canada. . .
from becoming Nazi Boots On Canada.
In the conclusion to the CBC’s 1942 series, produced by J. Frank Wills and hosted by Orson Welles, small town newspaper, editor Sam Dornan of Saskatchewan looks up at a Nazi swastika hanging, in 1949, where he and other Canadians had proudly sung “God Save the King” before their tall King and their lovely Queen in 1939.
In 1949, they play “The Horst Wessel Song. . . the song that made a hero out of a beer hall brawler, the song that canonized a gutter rat.”
The men in uniform present in 1939, the men of Canada’s Army, Navy, and Air Force, the men in the scarlet tunics of the Royal Candian Mounted Police, have been replaced by men
of Germany’s Panzer divisions, that overran Canada, and men of the Luftwaffe, who destroyed Canada’s cities from the air, and of the Gestapo, with the heavy hands of murderers.
The veterans of World War I have been replaced by the veterans of the conquest of Poland and France, of England, the United States, and Canada.
Where the radiant Queen once reviewed Canada’s men in uniform, men in the uniform of Nazi Germany now parade for the delight of the Gauleiter of Canada, the spy Colin Ross.
In this rousing finale, one of Canada’s last heroes, the last symbol of Canada’s freedom, faces execution.
(Originally aired on October 25, 1942.)
In case you missed it, Nazi Eyes On Canada, part 4, with Vincent Price.
Nazi Eyes On Canada, part 3, with Quentin Reynolds.
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