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Novelist and sports writer Budd Schulberg, assigned by the U.S. Navy to the OSS for intelligence work while attached to John Ford's documentary unit, was ordered to arrest Riefenstahl at her chalet in Kitzbühel, ostensibly to have her identify Nazi war criminals in German film footage captured by the Allied troops shortly after the war. [69]
1936 Winter Olympics: Kampf um Brot: Ulrich Kayser: documentary: Kaufmann, nicht Händler: Ernst Kochel: partly animated Documentary: propaganda film Available online here: Kopfjäger von Borneo: Baron Victor von Plessen: Documentary: Headhunters of Borneo; German-Dutch co-production Lebende Werkzeuge: Hans Wilhelm: documentary: Mädel im ...
The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) [ edit ]
But the laws of war do not cover, in time of either war or peace, a government's actions against its own nationals (such as Nazi Germany's persecution of German Jews). And at the Nuremberg war crimes trials , the tribunals rebuffed several efforts by the prosecution to bring such "domestic" atrocities within the scope of international law as ...
War crimes West Germany Accessory to manslaughter (6 counts) Criminal penalty: U.S. Military ... Hitler with Dietrich in Berlin during the 1936 Summer Olympics.
While not as highly regarded as films of the preceding Weimar Republic era, [citation needed] the films of Nazi Germany, mainly made under control of Joseph Goebbels, hold a fascination for many, [citation needed] both as historical documents of one of the most important periods of 20th century history, as well as for their own artistic merit.
A quantitative comparison of the percentage of German movies screened vs. foreign movies screened shows the following numbers: in the last year of the Weimar Republic the percentage of German movies was 62%; by 1939 it had risen to 77% while the number of cinema visits increased by the factor 2.5 from 1933 to 1939.
8 May - Oswald Spengler, German historian (born 1880) [10] 22 May - Joseph Koeth, German politician (born 1870) 3 June – Walther Wever, German general, pre-World War II Luftwaffe commander (born 1887) 22 June –Moritz Schlick, German philosopher and physicist (born 1882) 24 July - Georg Michaelis, German politician, former chancellor of ...