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Release year: 1944

Storyline

The film depicts the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement from a small radical political adventurer and cell to the dictatorial regime of Germany in the genre of a gangster film.

Top credits

Directors

John Farrow

Writers

Cast

Bobby Watson — Adolf Hitler
Roman Bohnen — Captain Ernst Röhm
Martin Kosleck — Joseph Goebbels
Victor Varconi — Rudolph Hess

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Did you know

• This film represents one of a small handful of American films that featured the word "Hitler" or "Hitler's", and both referencing Adolf Hitler in their titles and were made around the time of the Second World War. These movies include Hitler's Children (1943); Hitler's Madman (1943) aka Hitler's Hangman; Hitler: Dead or Alive (1942); the documentary short, Hitler Lives (1945); The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943); Hitler's Women aka Women in Bondage (1943); the comic short The Devil with Hitler (1942) and Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939).

• One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Boston Wednesday 8 October 1958 on WBZ (Channel 4); it first aired in Seattle Wednesday 1 July 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).

• Film debut of Luis Van Rooten.