Why We Fight Part 3 - Divide and Conquer - 1943 WW2 / Military Documentary - S88TV1

Divide and Conquer (1943) - The campaign in Benelux and the Fall of France. The following background information is from Why We Fight is a series of seven propaganda films commissioned by the United States government during World War II to demonstrate to American soldiers the reason for involvement in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general public to persuade them to support American involvement in the war. Most of the films were directed by Frank Capra, who was daunted yet also impressed and challenged by Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda film Triumph of the Will and who worked in direct response to it. The series faced a tough challenge: convincing an only recently non-interventionist nation of the need to become involved in the war and ally with the Soviets, among other things. In many of the films, Capra and other directors spliced in Axis powers propaganda footage—recontextualizing it so it promoted the cause of the Allies instead. Why We Fight was edited primarily by William