Reinhard Heydrich
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Biography: Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, also known as The Hangman, was a high-ranking German Nazi official. He was SS Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office and Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia. In August 1940, he was appointed and served as President of Interpol. Heydrich chaired the 1942 Wannsee Conference, which discussed plans for the deportation and extermination of all Jews in German-occupied territory. In Operation Anthropoid, he was attacked in Prague on May 27, 1942, by British-trained Slovak and Czech agents. He died approximately one week later due to his injuries.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Halle an der Saale, Germany
Birthday: March 07, 1904
Deathday: June 04, 1942
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Gender: Male
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Night and Fog
Overview: Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-04-27
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Opus pro smrtihlava
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Hitler: A Career
Overview: A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-07-08
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The Private Voice of Hitler
Overview: Everyone knows the public archive footage of Hitler. But most of it is silent. What was he saying? Special computer technology enables us for the first time to lip-read the silent film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-28
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Death in Focus
Overview: Death in all it's faces and stages. From the horrors of Buchenwald to the devastation of Hiroshima. From the political assassinations of the second half of the 20th century to the bloody feeding frenzy of the pythons of Burma. Burned on to the screen like napalm victims of Vietnam. Followed by "Death in Focus" part 2.
Genres: Horror War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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Dawn of the Nazis
Overview: How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungry population to follow the chilling call of just one man to world domination. A real-life horror story, an ominous tale of violence and deception, which takes place from 1919 to 1934. (Entirely made up of restored, colorized archival footage.)
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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Adolf Hitler - Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer: Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte
Overview: The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news reports from different countries. Previously unpublished scenes about the private life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were also shown for the first time. The film was originally built into a frame story. The Off Commentary begins with the words: "This film [...] is a document of delusion that on the way to power tore an entire people and a whole world into disaster. This film portrays the suffering of a generation that only ended five to twelve. " The film premiered in Cologne on November 20, 1953, but was immediately banned by Federal Interior Minister Gerhard Schröder in agreement with the interior ministers of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police
Overview: The rise and fall of Nazi Germany's terrifying secret police force from 1933 through 1945.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-31
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Distant Journey
Overview: Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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The Face of Evil: Reinhard Heydrich
Overview: In 1942, Reinhard Heydrich was considered the most dangerous man in Germany after Adolf Hitler himself. The Allied plot to assassinate him, masterminded in England and carried out in Prague, was the most brazen of its kind. HIs story is a cautionary tale, frighteningly relevant to the present day, of the effects of organizational ability when empowered by an indomitable and amoral ambition.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-10
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