But because of the association between the children's character and the Nazis, a move Disney quickly regretted, the film was suppressed and is virtually unknown today.
However it is now back in the news after two Russians were arrested and ended up in court for posting the video on Russian VKontakte where it instantly broke the law because of the use of Nazi symbols that it contains.
A lawyer for the pair pointed out that the film is anti-Nazi, but that was ruled irrelevant by the court, where publishing any Nazi symbol such as the swastika included in the cartoon is regarded as illegal.
Der Fuehrer's Face won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 15th Academy Awards where it was the only Donald Duck film ever to receive the honour.
The eight-minute clip was posted onto social media website VKontakte with the music of radical neo-Nazi band Choir SS in Seversk, in the northern Russian’s Tomsk Oblast region.
The Prosecutor’s office of city in Seversk fined the two men, whose names have not been revealed, 3,000 RUB (£100) each.
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