Heinrich Himmler
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Biography: Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and later the Minister of the Interior, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). Serving as Reichsführer and later as Commander of the Replacement (Home) Army and General Plenipotentiary for the entire Reich's administration (Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung), Himmler rose to become one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany as well as one of the persons most directly responsible for the Holocaust. As overseer of the concentration camps, extermination camps, and Einsatzgruppen (literally: task forces, often used as killing squads), Himmler coordinated the killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma, many prisoners of war, and possibly another three to four million Poles, communists, or other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live or simply "in the way", including homosexuals, people with physical and mental disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and members of the Confessing Church. Shortly before the end of the war, he offered to surrender both Germany and himself to the Western Allies if he were spared prosecution. After being arrested by British forces, he committed suicide before he could be questioned. Description above from the Wikipedia article Heinrich Himmler licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: München, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: October 07, 1900
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 23, 1945
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Night and Fog
Overview: Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Genres: Documentary History
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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To Arms, We Are Fascists!
Overview: Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on the conditions leading to Fascism and the post-WWII reaction to the Fascist experience.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-25
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Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Overview: How, in November 1945, after the end of the World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, the international prosecutors participating in the first Nuremberg trial —formally, the International Military Tribunal— built their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the films and records produced by the own regime, obsessed with documenting everything in its long path of infamy and crime.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-21
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The Victory of Faith
Overview: Follows the Fifth Nazi Party Rally (Nuremberg, 30 August–3 September 1933) and shows the then close relationship between Adolf Hitler and Ernest Rõhm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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The March on Rome
Overview: The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-10-20
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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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Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur
Overview: Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized homosexual men during the Nazi era – but the Nazis also discriminated against lesbians and trans people. They should be excluded from the national community. More than 50,000 queer people have been proven to have been persecuted. The documentary highlights three poignant fates in the context of Nazi terror.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-01-16
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Der Nürnberger Parteitag der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei
Overview: A film about the Nuremberg Party Congress of the NSDAP in 1929.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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Ich habe meine Pflicht getan
Overview: Documentary film from a National Socialist perspective on the political development of Germany from the First World War to the annexation of Austria by the German Wehrmacht. The film is presumably one of a series of films intended to convince voters of the achievements of the NSDAP and Adolf Hitler in particular in the run-up to the referendum and Reichstag elections on April 10, 1938
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Belgique nazie
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Genres: Documentary War TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-12-10
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The Battle of France
Overview: A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.
Genres: Documentary War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-06-03
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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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In Love with Adolf Hitler
Overview: This film captures the affair, full of love, lust, and despair, between Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, from 1932 until their double suicide in 1945.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-06-12
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Secrets of the Nazi Criminals
Overview: Documents the major trial of the Nazi war criminals and the violent acts that they were accused of.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-02-25
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Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja
Overview: "Himmlers Kantele Player" - about Finnish student, who decides to leave University of Sorbonne and walk from Paris to Helsinki in the spring of 1935. On his way, in Germany, he meets Heinrich Himmler, who is attracted by a traditional Finnish instrument, kantele. Himmler employs Yrjö as researcher to the Ahnenerbe institute to find the Aryan roots from the runic singing culture of Finnish Carelia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-01-30
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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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Hitler's Evil Science
Overview: In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scientific community supported Nazism, distorted history to legitimize a hideous system and was an accomplice to its unspeakable crimes. The story of the Ahnenerbe, a sinister organization created to rewrite the obscure origins of a nation.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-25
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Wizards
Overview: After the death of his mother, the evil mutant wizard Blackwolf discovers some long-lost military technologies. Full of ego and ambition, Blackwolf claims his mother's throne, assembles an army and sets out to brainwash and conquer Earth. Meanwhile, Blackwolf's gentle twin brother, the bearded and sage Avatar, calls upon his own magical abilities to foil Blackwolf's plans for world domination -- even if it means destroying his own flesh and blood.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-09
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Will It Happen Again?
Overview: An account of Adolf Hitler's rise and fall, his relationship with Eva Braun and their days of leisure at the Berghof, their Bavarian residence.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-15
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Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals
Overview: September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these circumstances, how is it that ordinary German soldiers suddenly became vicious killers, terrorizing the local population? Did everyone turn into something worse than wild animals? The true story of the first World War II offensive that marks in the history of infamy the beginning of a carnage and a historical tragedy.
Genres: Documentary Animation History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-08-31
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The Decent One
Overview: Through previously undiscovered private letters, photos and diaries that were found in the Himmler family house in 1945, the "The Decent One" exposes a unique and at times uncomfortable access to the life and mind of the merciless "Architect of the Final Solution" Heinrich Himmler.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-02-09
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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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Stolen Children
Overview: June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of particularly well-bred young children from Poland and the occupied territories of the Soviet Union in order to be educated in German culture, by both state schools and German families…
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-03-11
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All Against All
Overview: This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings that radicalise. It shows how fascism was on the rise even a decade before the founding of the NSB, due to a number of anti-democratic initiatives led by a millionaire with a predilection for one-legged women, a market vendor, a cleric, and an artist. Historians, writers and collectors of fascist curios reveal how an initially marginal and fragmented movement grew into a radical populist party.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-11-21
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Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer
Overview: Born into a Bavarian bourgeois family, Heinrich Himmler became the driving force behind the indescribable crimes that made the Nazi regime so unique in modern history.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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I 600 giorni di Salò
Overview: the italian social republic was born in september 1943 after the armistice with the allies and the liberation of mussolini, as an attempt to rebuild an italian state that would continue the work of fascism. the government of the new republic is based in salo ', on the shores of lake garda, with a political center in verona, where the republican fascist party is rebuilt. from then until 1945 Italy lived nineteen dramatic months, characterized by deaths and destruction. in the vain attempt to regain the consent of the masses, the republic of salo 'became an instrument of repression in the hands of the Germans and collapsed, in April 1945, in the face of the advance of the allied armies. this documentary reconstructs the history of those 600 days with largely unpublished material.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-11-19
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Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth
Overview: Countless people around the world know the pictures from Leni Riefenstahl's films, even if they have not seen them in their entirety. The work of the German director has burned itself into the collective memory. Even decades after the end of the Nazi era, she showed no remorse and presented herself as an apolitical, naive follower of the Nazi criminal regime. Her artistic service for the cinema was always recognized. But book author Nina Gladitz shows after decades of research that Hitler's favorite filmmaker was not only a follower, but also a perpetrator during the Third Reich, who instrumentalized other filmmakers such as the brilliant cinematographer Willy Zielke in order to gain fame for herself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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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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Hitler and the Apostles of Evil
Overview: This portrait that goes against the grain depicts the Führer as a lazy, isolated leader, cut off from reality, incapable of governing without his "apostles". They are Hitler's essential ministers, advisers, rivals, courtiers. They hate each other, and the Führer puts them in competition, often to get the worst out of them. The portraits of Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Albert Speer but also Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, and Doctor Joseph Mengele trace the rivalries, hatreds and predations that punctuate the entire frightening epic of Nazism. This documentary is composed of a selection of archive images and testimonies from descendants and specialists of this period.
Genres: Documentary War History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-30
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Wie konnte es geschehen? - Teil 1: "Deutschland erwache..." (1914 - 1938)
Overview: In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material assets and countless cultural treasures was mourned throughout Europe... With the question “How could it happen?”, the film goes back to the year 1914, when the “primal catastrophe of the 20th century” took its course with the First World War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate
Overview: A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler’s rise to power.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-06-28
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Mathi Schenk's Last Journey to Poland
Overview: In the summer of 2001, 75-year-old Mathi Schenk made his last trip to Poland, following in the footsteps of his own past. He lives in the eastern cantons of Belgium, which were forcibly united with the German Reich after the invasion of German troops in May 1940. Those who did not volunteer for the Wehrmacht were – like Mathi Schenk – sent to war as forced soldiers for Germany. When the Warsaw Uprising broke out in August 1944, the 18-year-old arrived in the Polish capital and was assigned to the notorious SS Dirlewanger Brigade. During the 63 days of bitter fighting, which cost the lives of more than 200,000 Poles, he witnessed unimaginable atrocities against the people of Warsaw. While fleeing the Red Army, Polish farmers found the young soldier wounded in a ditch. Despite his German uniform, they hid him from the Russians in their village.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-22
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