How to Create a Taxpaying Spirit. A Transnational Examination of an US American and a Western German Tax Education Film in and after World War II Schönhärl, Korinna Schönhärl, Korinna Hürlimann, Gisela Rohde, Dorothea As a case study, this chapter examines two tax education films that were produced 11 years apart in the USA and Western Germany during and after World War II: “The New Spirit” and “Putzke wants to know”. In contrast to America's most popular cartoon character 11 years earlier, Erwin Putzke is in a terrible mood at the beginning of the short film “Putzke wants to know”. The family father and electrician with a workshop of his own is annoyed and upset by the duty of filling in his tax return, grumbling at his wife and daughter and even at their budgie. The film's tax morale message is conveyed to its audience against the backdrop of a sober post-war reality characterised by allied occupation and the Allies' say in West German tax policies during a period of laborious economic build-up after a lost war. Routledge 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart doc-type:bookPart text http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248 https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/record/34547 Schönhärl K. How to Create a Taxpaying Spirit. A Transnational Examination of an US American and a Western German Tax Education Film in and after World War II. In: Schönhärl K, Hürlimann G, Rohde D, eds. <i>Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance</i>. 1st ed. Routledge; 2023:154-167. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003333197">10.4324/9781003333197</a> eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.4324/9781003333197 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess