In an interview with MTV, actor and filmmaker Eli Roth explains that Quentin Tarantino asked him to direct a short Nazi propaganda movie to fit into Inglourious Basterds like a film within a film. Stolz der Nation (The Nation's Pride) was supposed to be a spoof of real Nazi propaganda flicks like Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will, but Roth worries that he might have gone a little too far. At one point during the filming, the Jewish filmmaker even found himself shouting "More swastikas! More swastikas!" And one key scene involves shooting 260 Americans. He expresses some concern (or is it glee?) that he may just have gotten even more offensive here than he did in making the gruesome horror flick Hostel 2.
These doubts were amplified when he screened the finished product for some of the other actors who, staying in character, started screaming "Heil Hitler," and "Kill the Jews" in response. "I turned to Quentin," Roth says, and exclaimed "What have I done?" Despite these doubts, he suspects he created something powerful, and his relish for the irony still continues to leak through:
I'm going to, like, resurrect the Nazi party. They are going to make me their Sarah Palin. They will be like, 'We love his movie. But he's a Jew! But it's such a good movie. But a Jew made it!'
All in all, it sounds like just the right over-the-top complement to a Quentin Tarantino production.