Orsen Welles 'the stranger' plays on the American fear of the nazi ideology and the horrors it and it's fillowers commited during he 1940's. Released in 1946 it's audience members were most certainly effected by the war and the dehumanisation of the Nazis throughout the decade. Welles plays on the fears at the time by suggesting that Nazi war criminals could be hiding in homeland America, perfectly disguised as your neighbor or loved one. For the time it was a…
