Plan for Destruction

{{short description|1943 film}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Plan for Destruction

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| director = Edward Cahn

| producer =

| writer = Karl Kamb
John C. Higgins

| narrator = Lewis Stone

| music = Nathaniel Shilkret

| cinematography = Jackson Rose

| editing = Harry Komer

| distributor = MGM

| released = {{Film date|1943|4|22}}

| runtime = 22 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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Plan for Destruction is a 1943 American short propaganda film directed by Edward Cahn. It looks at the Geopolitik ideas of the ex-World War I professor, General Karl Haushofer, who is portrayed as the head of a huge organisation for gathering information of strategic value and the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's wars and plans to enslave the world. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1944 |title=The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners |access-date=January 21, 2014|work=oscars.org}}