The Gleiwitz Case
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Director Gerhard Klein Duration | 7/10 Genre Drama, History, Thriller | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 22 April 1961 (1961-04-22) Cast (Alfred Naujocks), Christoph Beyertt (Volksdeutscher Franz Sitte), Wolfgang Kalweit (Volksdeutscher Hans-Wilhelm Kraweit), Georg Leopold (Volksdeutscher Franz Wyczorek), Herwart Grosse (Gestapochef Müller), Heinz Behrens (Offizier)Genres War film, Drama, Thriller, World cinema, Historical drama Written by Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Gunther Rucker Similar movies Fury , Captain America: The First Avenger , Barbarossa: Hitler Turns East , Independence Day , The Book Thief , The Monuments Men |
The Gleiwitz Case (German: Der Fall Gleiwitz) is an East German war film directed by Gerhard Klein. It was released in 1961. The plot was reconstructed exactly according to the statemens of SS-Man Alfred Naujocks before British authorities at the Nuremberg trials.
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The film themes the SS stage-managed Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz at the evening of 31.8.1939. This served national-socialist propaganda as a pretext to start second World War by raiding Poland the next day.
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The Gleiwitz Case Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
The Gleiwitz Case IMDb The Gleiwitz Case themoviedb.org
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