Lambeth Walk facts
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"Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style", a parody of the propaganda movie Triumph of The Will, showing German soldiers apparently goose-stepping to The Lambeth Walk. Reportedly, Joseph Goebbels was so enraged after watching it, he ran out of his room, kicking chairs and screaming profanities.
Back in 1940 one of the officials at the British Ministry of Information (Charles A. Ridley) took Leni Riefenstahl’s 1934 propaganda film *triumph of the will*, added *lambeth walk* into it and then edited the video to make it look like the Nazis were dancing to the music.
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In 1941 Charles Ridley trolled the Nazis by remixing one of their propaganda videos to make it look like they were marching and dancing to a popular song called "Lambeth Walk." It is one of the first examples of political trolling. [Wiki link in the comments]
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In World War 2, the British edited German propaganda to the song "The Lambeth Walk" so as to make fun of the regime.
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Trolling is not a new art. This video of the "Lambeth Walk" was made by the British propaganda ministry to piss Hitler off. It worked.
