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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 ]
Following the arrest, he is indicted of war crimes and transferred to Nuremberg Prison with Hermann Göring and other senior Nazis. Speer is confronted with full crimes of the Nazis and says he will admit common responsibility against the advice of his Defence attorney and US Army intelligence psychologist Capt. Gustav Gilbert takes an interest.
[15] [1] Since the film was produced in the years immediately preceding World War II, the unnamed hostile power behind the bombings has been assumed by many viewers to be Nazi Germany. However, the film does not specify this, and indeed, Verloc's first name has been changed, presumably because his name in the novel, Adolf, had too many ...
Herschel Feibel Grynszpan (Yiddish: הערשל פײַבל גרינשפּאן; German: Hermann Grünspan; 28 March 1921 – last rumoured to be alive in 1945, declared dead in 1960) was a Polish-Jewish expatriate born and raised in Weimar Germany who shot and killed the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on 7 November 1938 in Paris.
Olympia is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, which documented the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin during the Nazi period. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) (126 minutes) and Olympia 2.
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 ...