LIST OF ENEMIES.
HERE’S AUDREY COX.
REPORTER: THE YEAR WAS 1940.
ADOLF HITLER INVADED FRANCE.
IT WAS A YEAR BEFORE THE ATTACK ON PRO HARBOR.
AND THE COMEDY TEAM MADE UP OF THREE GUYS, MOE, LARRY, AND CURRENTLY -- >> I’M KIND OF SORRY.
>> AS MINISTER OF PROPAGANDA -- >> I DON’T WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU.
REPORTER: USED SLAPSTICK HUMOR TO POKE FUN AT THE GERMAN DICTATOR.
>> THOSE ARE MY ORDER.
>> HAIL, HAIL, HAIL.
>> THEY WERE MASTERS AT THEIR ACT.
REPORTER: DAN SCHROEDER IS A GUIDE AT THE RIGHT MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AND WOLFEBORO.
HE IS ALSO A FANATICAL FAN OF THE THREE STOOGES.
>> MY NAME IS DAN SCHROEDER.
I’M A STOOGE-O-HOLIC.
REPORTER: THE SHORT FEATURE FILM "YOU NASTY SPY" WAS FILMED BEFORE THE U.S. WAS DRAWN INTO THE WAR.
THE THREE STOOGES WERE AMONG THE FIRST IN HOLLYWOOD TO OPENLY SATIRIZE HITLER IN THE THIRD RIGHT.
MO HOWARDS COUNTED -- CLONE-ISH OF HILLER WAS HARD TO MISS.
DESPITE THIS THE CLAIMER AT THE START OF THE FILM.
♪ >> WE ARE GOING -- WE ARE IN A CONCENTRATED CAMP.
ON SECOND THOUGHT, THROW HIM TO THE MAYANS.
>> WE HAVE NO LINES.
HOW ABOUT THE TIGERS ARE THE CUBS?
>> FOR THE GIANTS?
>> WHY HAVE WE KNOW LYONS?
>> BECAUSE WE HAVE NO BONES OR ICE CREAM.
>> HAVE BEEN I THROW ANYONE TO THE LINES OF I HAVE NO LIENS?
>> IT WASN’T ON -- IT WAS AN UNLISTED RULE THAT YOU DO NOT MAKE FUN OF HEAD LIST OF STATE.
HITLER WAS ON THE COVER OF TIME MINUTE -- TIME MAGAZINE.
REPORTER: IT PROMPTED DAN TO DEVELOP A LECTURE SERIES ABOUT THE STOOGES AT THE RIGHT MUSEUM.
>> WE HAVE INCREDIBLE LECTURE SERIES.
I WANTED TO DO A LECTURE BUT I CANNOT COME UP WITH ONE.
ONE DAY I SAT DOWN, TURN ON THE TV, AND THERE WAS THE SHORT "YOU NASTY SPY." I WENT, THERE IS MY LECTURE.
WENT ONLINE, STARTED DOING RESEARCH AND FOUND OUT THAT LIKE EVERYONE IN HOLLYWOOD AT THE TIME, THEY DID THEIR POWER -- THEIR PART FOR THE WAR EFFORT.
THEY DID THEIR SHORT, POKED FUN OF HITLER ALL THE WAY.
MOE WAS THE HITLER CHARACTER.
CURLY WAS A MARTIAN GORAN CHARACTER.
LARRY WAS JOSEPH GOEBBELS, THE PROPAGANDA MINISTER.
>> GET HIM.
>> WHEN THEY DID THAT COME IT WAS BEFORE AMERICA ENTERED THE WAR.
RUSSIA WAS STILL THE ALLIES OF THE GERMANS.
THE STOOGES DID THEIR PART BY SELLING BONDS, ENTERTAINING THE TROOPS, AND THEY WERE THE FIRST ONE ON FILM BEFORE CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND THE LITTLE DICTATOR, TO MAKE AND POKE FUN AT ADOLF
HITLER.
REPORTER: THERE IS A RUMOR THAT HITLER WAS NOT A FAN OF BEING MOCKED BY THE THREE KNUCKLEHEADS.
>> PICK A CARD.
MARSHALL, COME OVER RIGHT AWAY.
>> I WILL COME OVER WHEN I’M READY.
[LAUGHTER] >> HE’S SHAVING.
I WILL BE RIGHT OVER.
REPORTER: HITLER PUT THE STOOGES ALONG WITH ROOSEVELT AND STALIN ON A DEATH LIST.
SINCE THEN, IT HAS COME OUT THAT IT MAY BE URBAN LEGEND.
>>. HAPPENED IN THE AIR?
>> WE BOMBED 56 HOSPITALS, 42 KINDERGARTENS, FOR CEMETERIES, AND OTHER FIGHTER -- VITAL MILITARY OBJECTS.
REPORTER: YOU HAVE -- >> THE THREE OF THEM WERE ALL JEWISH.
THEY WERE HEARING THE HORRORS COMING OUT OF EUROPE WITH THE NAZIS.
THIS WAS THEIR WAY TO GET BACK AND DO SOMETHING AGAINST WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
>> IT BELONGS TO ME.
>> SHUT UP!
♪ REPORTER: FROM BOOKS TO FIGURINES, EVEN HOT SAUCE, DAN HAS COLLECTED A LOT OF MEMORABILIA OVER THE YEARS.
HE IS FASCINATED BY WHAT HE CALLS THEIR COMIC GENIUS.
>> CURLY AT HIS BEST.
THE GUY WAS THE GREATEST PHYSICAL COMEDIAN OF ALL TIME.
REPORTER: THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INVITED DAN TO PRESENT HIS THREE LECTURE AT THE MUSEUM IN NEW ORLEANS.
THE LECTURE IS TITLED "THE THREE STOOGES AND THE AXIS." DAN HAS PRESENTED THE SERIES MANY TIMES AT THE RIGHT MUSEUM, EACH TIME THE EVENT IS STANDING ROOM ONLY.
>> NOW IT BRINGS A DIFFERENT GROUP OF THREE STOOGES FANS INTO THE MUSEUM.
>> WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
>> I WILL FIND OUT.
>> LOOK1 A DISGUISED RATER.
>> WE HAVE TO USE THE OLD BEING.
>> I CANNOT LOOK IN OTHER BEING IN THE FACE.
>> SHUT UP.
WE HAVE TO GET INTO MASS UNIFORM SOMEHOW IF WE ARE DISCOVERED, WE ARE LOST.
YOU ARE CRAZY.
IF WE ARE DISCOVERED, WE ARE FOUND.
REPORTER: DAN’S GOAL WAS TO USE THE FUN AND HUMOR OF THESE KOOKY FORMER VAUDEVILLE PERFORMERS TO INTRODUCE A NEW GROUP OF PEOPLE TO THE RIGHT MUSEUM.
AND HOW IT HONORS THE GREATEST GENERATION.
>> THEY COME IN AND SAY, I CAN’T BELIEVE WHAT IT IS LIKE AN SITE APPEARED WE GET PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND OF THE WORLD COMING IN TO MY GRANDFATHER WAS IN WORLD WAR I,
MY FATHER WAS IN WORLD WAR I, I WAS IN THE 70’S AND 80’S.
MY SON SERVED IN AFGHANISTAN.
THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PASSION FOR ME.
WORLD WAR II.
>> IT IS AN INCREDIBLE MUSEUM.
I HOPE EVERYONE COMES TO SEE IT AND COME TO MY THREE STOOGES TALKS.
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