Doing the Lambeth Walk

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I'm in the middle of watching The Longest Day.

In one of the scenes, British Glider Troopers are on a plane, singing The Lambeth Walk.

Somebody along the way did some video work, showing the Nazi's doing the Lambeth Walk. It was reported that Hitler and especially Goebbels were absolutely angered by this.

 
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I had to look up the Lambeth walk. However I didn’t see any references to Hitler or the Nazi’s. Why didn’t hitler like it?

I haven’t seen the movie “The Longest Day.”
 
A Nazi propaganda video was used, and a little movie trickery was employed to show the Nazi troops marching and dancing to this very British song. Goebbels, the propaganda minister thought this was highly defamatory to the Nazi's.

Did you watch the video I linked?

In 1942, Charles A. Ridley of the British Ministry of Information made a short propaganda film, "Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style", which edited footage of Hitler and German soldiers from Leni Riefenstahl's classic Triumph of the Will to make it appear as if they were marching and dancing to the song "The Lambeth Walk". A member of the Nazi Party achieved attention in 1939 by declaring "The Lambeth Walk" (which was becoming popular in Berlin) to be "Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping" as part of a speech on how the "revolution of private life" was one of the next big tasks of National Socialism in Germany. The film so enraged Joseph Goebbels that reportedly he ran out of the screening room kicking chairs and screaming profanities. The propaganda film was distributed uncredited to newsreel companies, who would supply their own narration. This version is from the Universal Newsreel company: "The cleverest anti-Nazi propaganda yet! You will howl with glee when you see and hear what our London newsreel friends have cooked up for Hitler and his goose-stepping armies. The 'Nasties' skip and sway in tune to the Lambeth Walk!"
 
All that editing done manually! Cut and tape. Over and over again. I wonder how many hours were spent. Shows how people contributed to the war effort in their own way.
 
I bet that little bit of film got their schnitzel in a snit! The Longest Day is a great movie. Every actor took $25K to appear except for John Wayne who had to have $250K. Thought that was interesting. He was 55 and portrayed a man who was 27 at the time of D Day.
 
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