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Dead Men's Secrets - Plotting to Kill Hitler

The program discovers how the course of history could have been so different if the first plot to kill Adolf Hitler, in 1939, had been successful. But Hitler proved a hard man to kill. This documentary reviews the many attempts on his life, and analyzes what went wrong.

Director : Jonathan Martin

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 44

Language : English

Heroes and Tyrants of the 20th Century - Hitler

חייו של הרודן, עליית הנאציזם ומהלכים מרכזיים במלה"ע ה-2 באמצעות תצלומי וסרטי ארכיון. מלה"ע ה-1, חיי כלכלה בגרמניה, ספרטקים, הפגנות, מפלגה נאצית, ס"א, עיתונים, ארנסט רוהם, פוטש 1923, רודולף הס, "מיין קאמפף", יוליוס שטרייכר, "דר שטירמר", הינדנבורג, לודנדורף, בחירות, מצוקה כלכלית, מפגנים, תעמולה, פון שלייכר, פון פאפן, מצעדים, 27.2.33 - שרפת הרייכסטאג, מעצרי מתנגדים, 1.4.33 - חרם כלכלי על עסקים יהודים, 1.5.33 - שרפת ספרים, מוסוליני, 30.6.34 - "ליל הסכינים הארוכות", ס"ס, ברכטסגאדן, גלי ראובל, אווה בראון, צבא גרמני, תעשייה צבאית, קרופ, "לבנסבורן", איינשטיין, 7.3.36 - כוחות גרמנים בריינלנד, 12.3.38 - "אנשלוס", 30.9.38...

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 55

Language : English

Stauffenberg - A German Patriot

Documentary film that tells about the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. At the center of the film, a survey of the figure of Claus von Stauffenberg, a German officer and opponent of Hitler, who carried the suitcase bomb into the Fuhrer's headquarters in E. Prussia ("the wolfs' den") that was supposed to kill Hitler, and his heritage in Germany after World War II. Includes testimonies, analysis of historians and politicians and archival films.

Director : Irmgard Von Zur Muehlen

Duration : 42

Language : German

Pursuit aka Twist of Fate

A two-part miniseries about an SS-Lieutenant Colonel Helmut Von Schreader who, in the waning days of the Third Reich, undergoes plastic surgery and becomes a concentration-camp prisoner to avoid prosecution as a war criminal. In an ironic twist of fate, he is shipped to the wrong camp and forced to live with those he has victimized, where he learns to respect them. After the war, he becomes involved in the founding of Israel, marries and fathers a son, who eventually stumbles across his identity 20 years later.

Director : Ian Sharp

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 177

Language : English

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

In semi-documentary fashion, this dramatic feature film recounts the events leading up to and including the July 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler led by Count von Stauffenberg, the Chief of Staff to Home Army Commander General Friedrich Fromm . Von Stauffenberg had become convinced of the necessity to assassinate Hitler and stage a coup, in order to save Germany’s “honor”. “Operation Walkyrie” failed, leaving Hitler only slightly injured, and resulting in a series of mock trials and brutal executions.

Director : Falk Harnack

Production Year : 1955

Duration : 97

Language : German

Georg Elser - Seven Minutes

Director : Klaus Maria Brandauer

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 88 90

Language : English

Secrets That Won World War II - What Really Happened to Rommel?

Based solely on archive footages and photography, each episode in this BBC documentary series focuses in on a key topic of world war two from D-Day to Stalingrad to Germany's "secret weapons". This episode tells of Erwin Rommel (1891-1944), German Fieldmarshal. He was nicknamed the 'Desert Fox' and highly decorated by Hitler. However, Rommel was not in sympathy with the Nazi party and may have been involved in the plot to kill Hitler. Did the legendary German General commit suicide or was he murdered?

Director : Jonathan Martin

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 53

Language : English

Ashes and Diamonds

The third part of the second world war trilogy by Andrzej Wajda (“A Generation” and “Canal” were the first two). Matchek, a young freedom fighter, is given a mission to kill a communist government clerk in a Polish town. A love affair with a girl who works in a bar causes him to have doubts about the struggle.

Director : Andrzej Wajda

Production Year : 1958

Duration : 103

Language : Polish

Traitors to Hitler

Documentary which incorporates a film shot of trial of the conspirators who attempted to assassinate Hitler in 1944.

Director : Rex Bloomstein

Production Year : 1979

Duration : 60

Language : English, German

The Nazis - Rommel, The Desert Fox

Episode in a five-part series about the Nazis based on original films. The life of the "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel, the German Fieldmarshal who won victories in the North African front and was forced by Hitler to commit suicide because of his ties with the conspirators in the assassination attempt of 20 July, 1944.

Director : Dennis Mueller

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 60

Language : English

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