History YMMV / DerFuehrersFace

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Donald's bread being so stale he has to cut it with with a handsaw is PlayedForLaughs, but due to wartime rationing in World War II, sawdust actually was put into bread to save on flour, due to limited resources.

** It also stands as a surprisingly detailed and accurate deconstruction of the Nazis, who are here portrayed as so obsessed with hyping themselves as the "master race" and glorifying Hitler at the expense of everything else. As a result, they run [[FascistButInefficient an inefficient and incompetent war effort]] that impoverishes their citizens.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Hermann-Göring clone is popular enough to warrant becoming a minor meme in YouTubePoop, presumably due to his swishy, flamboyant, body language and campy way of speaking setting him apart from the other caricatures of Fascist Leaders.

** While Donald is assembling the small bullet-like shells, we hear this line in the song: "If one little shell should blow him (Hitler) right to [[CurseCutShort *CLANG!*]]" Two years later: he commits suicide by shooting himself. (Hitler, not Donald Duck.)

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Hermann-Göring clone is popular enough to warrant becoming a minor meme in YoutubePoop, presumably due to his swishy, flamboyant, body language and campy way of speaking setting him apart from the other caricatures of Fascist Leaders.

* AcceptableTargets: The cartoon insults Nazis generally, Hitler specifically. Could a target be any more acceptable? The racist caricatures of Japanese people (including Hirohito) are arguably exceptions, although certainly not at the time the cartoon was made. Here's a bit of historic context -- the idea of passing gas in Hitler's face would be considered somewhat crude nowadays, but back in the 1940s it was borderline ''obscene''. If the face being farted in was anybody ''but'' Hitler's, the song would never have seen the light of day.

** Donald's nightmare has [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros bullet shells with faces and arms]].

** The Hermann-Göring clone and his line of "Super-Duper Super Men!" have inexplicably become a meme in WebAnimation/YouTubePoop.

* [[NightmareFuel/{{Disney}} Nightmare Fuel]]: The DisneyAcidSequence when Donald goes crazy from being overworked.
* OvershadowedByControversy: Thanks to the internet, a lot of people have heard that there's a Disney cartoon where Donald Duck is a Nazi. Very few of them, apparently, know that it's a scathing satire of Nazi Germany and instead assume that it's pro-Nazi propaganda (that is, of course, when they aren't also falsely interpreting it as "proof" of Creator/WaltDisney's supposed antisemitism). Hence, the cartoon is often accompanied with a NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer.

** The visual and aural permeation of Hitler and the swastika into virtually every aspect of Nutziland life echoes many RealLife dictatorships in the decades since, requiring their dictators’ names, words, and images be on everything from clocks, books, television stations, and even ''months and days of the week'', the latter infamously imposed in UsefulNotes/{{Turkmenistan}} by [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov Saparmurat Niyazov]], who was better known by his mononym of Turkmenbashy.

** The visual and aural permeation of Hitler and the swastika in virtually every aspect of Nutziland life echoes many RealLife dictatorships in the decades since, requiring their dictators’ names, words, and images be on everything from clocks, books, tests, television stations, and even ''months and days of the week'', the latter infamously imposed in UsefulNotes/{{Turkmenistan}} by [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov Saparmurat Niyazov]], who was better known by his mononym of Turkmenbashy.

** The image of WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck performing the Nazi salute with a swastika armband was very popular on ImageBoards due to the sheer "what."-ness that it induced if you are unfamiliar with the cartoon.

* ValuesDissonance: The racist Japanese stereotyping, and the Goering caricature being portrayed as {{Camp}}, possibly CampGay. Also, the comedic ThoseWackyNazis mockery of Nazism comes across as very dated today now that we're aware of the full horrors of the Holocaust. That being said...

** The cartoon has [UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini Mussolini]] saying, "And-a we would-a leave it if-a we could!" Less than a year after the film was released, Mussolini would be under German protection, with the rump Italian Social Republic being effectively under German control.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The third chorus mentions people "working into their graves". Two years later, the world would discover that hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Jews, prisoners of war, and other 'undesirables' were used as slave laborers by the Nazis, many suffering that very fate, to say nothing of the millions [[FinalSolution simply killed outright]].