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As Adolf Hitler personally flies a bomber on a mission to the Soviet Union, the gremlins from the Kremlin set about to stop him.As Adolf Hitler personally flies a bomber on a mission to the Soviet Union, the gremlins from the Kremlin set about to stop him.As Adolf Hitler personally flies a bomber on a mission to the Soviet Union, the gremlins from the Kremlin set about to stop him.

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Mel Blanc

Adolf Hitler
(voice)
(uncredited)
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Bea Benaderet

Gremlins
(voice)
(uncredited)
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Robert C. Bruce

Radio Announcer
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Robert Clampett
Writer
- Lou Lilly
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Trivia
In the early 1940s Walt Disney was developing a feature film based on Roald Dahl's book "Gremlin Lore", and asked the other studios to refrain from producing Gremlin films. While most of the studios complied, Warner Bros. already had two cartoons too far into production - Falling Hare (1943) and this cartoon. As a compromise, Leon Schlesinger retitled the cartoons to remove any reference to gremlins. The original title was Gremlins From the Kremlin.

Quotes
Adolf Hitler: [shouting] Stoupnegel Hamburger mit der Frankfurter und der Sauerbraten! Mit der Zoot Suit, mit der reet pleat, zoot!
[crowd cheers]
Adolf Hitler: Schtunk Friz Frelenk, mit der Heinrich Binder, und der 'What's Cookin' Doc'! Pumpernickel mit Sauerkrauten from der Delicatessen, mit Liverwurst, Hassenpfeffer, und der Chattanooga Choo-Choo! Gesundheit!
[Crowd gasps]
Adolf Hitler: Ve vill bomben der Moskau, bomben Schtalin, bomben that Irish general Timoshenko!
[Adolf sobbing]
Adolf Hitler: Shenko... To bomb Moskau, I will send the best pilot in the Reich-ch-ch! The greatest superman of all times!
Man in the Crowd: Who's that? You, Fuhrer?
Adolf Hitler: Hm, eh-h-h-h, who else?

Alternate versions
Footage is obviously missing between when the gremlins hit Adolf on the head with a mallet and when a circle is cut around him by a gremlin so he falls out of the plane.

Connections
Edited into Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons (1989)

Soundtracks
Song of the Volga Boatman
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7/10

Gremlins beat the crap out of Furher.

Hitler is furious with the Soviet Union that he wants to bomb Moscow all by himself.

So he flies from Berlin to Moscow by airplane. But little does he know is that little invaders are taring his plane apart. And those invaders are Gremlins from the Kremlin!.

These little guys sing and tor mechanical stuff apart with pleasure.

And they even pull a few pranks on Hitler himself.

Will these Gremlins be able to prevent Hitler from bombing Moscow? Well you try to guess that when you see this cartoon.

This cartoon was originally titled "Gremlins from the Kremlim" but due to Disney and Warner Bros both wanting to do their own cartoon about Gremlins. They had to change the title that doesn't have the word Gremlin in it.

It's a good WW2 short. Also be on the look out for 9 Gremlins that resemble the producers, writers, and creators behind the Looney Tunes.

Good luck in finding this short by internet search cause it's hard to tell when it'll ever be released on DVD.