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Rudolf Walter Richard Hess, also spelled Heß (26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987), was a prominent Nazi politician who was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party during the 1930s and early 1940s. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom, where he was arrested and became a prisoner of war. Hess was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he served at Spandau Prison, Berlin, where he died in 1987. After World War II Winston Churchill wrote of Hess, "He was a medical and not a criminal case, and should be so regarded."
On 27–28 September 2007, British news services published descriptions of disagreement between his Western and Soviet captors over his treatment and how the Soviet captors were steadfast in denying his release. In July 2011, the remains of Hess were exhumed from a grave in Bavaria after it became a focus of a pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.
Hess, the eldest of four children, was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to Fritz H. Hess, a prosperous German Lutheran importer/exporter from Bavaria, and Clara Hess (née Münch). The family lived in luxury on the Egyptian coast near Alexandria, and visited Germany often during the summers, allowing the Hess children to learn the German language and to absorb German culture. The family moved back to Germany in 1908, where Hess enrolled as a boarder at the Protestant School in Bad Godesberg. Hess showed aptitude in science and mathematics, and expressed interest in becoming an astronomer. However, his father wished him to continue the family business, Hess & Co., and in 1911 convinced Hess to study business for a year in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce.
Actors: Nadia Barentin (actress), Armelle (actress), Catherine Allégret (actress), Udo Schenk (actor), Marc Rioufol (actor), Catherine Hosmalin (actress), Adolf Hitler (actor), Bernhard Schütz (actor), Jean Reno (actor), Jean-Michel Noirey (actor), Thierry Frémont (actor), Jean-Pierre Lorit (actor), Gad Elmaleh (actor), Christian Henson (composer), Sylvie Testud (actress),
Plot: 1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sewn on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of life in an occupied Paris, on the Butte Montmartre, where they've taken shelter. At least that's what they think, until that morning on July 16th 1942, when their fragile happiness is toppled over. From the Vélodrome D'Hiver, where 13 000 Jews are crammed, to the camp of Beaune-La-Rolande, from Vichy to the terrace of the Berghof, La Rafle follows the real destinies of the victims and the executioners. Of those who orchestrated it all. Of those who trusted them. Of those who fled. Of those who opposed them. Every character in this film has existed. Every event, even the most extreme, transpired on that summer of 1942.
Keywords: 1940s, berghof-germany, eiffel-tower-paris, french-jew, german-occupation, germany, holocaust, holocaust-survivor, hunger-strike, jewActors: Shun Oguri (actor), Hidekatsu Shibata (actor), Vic Mignogna (actor), Mike McFarland (actor), Christopher Sabat (actor), Hidekatsu Shibata (actor), Scott McNeil (actor), Kyle Hebert (actor), John Gremillion (actor), Jason Douglas (actor), Greg Ayres (actor), Keiji Fujiwara (actor), Toshio Furukawa (actor), John Swasey (actor), Yasunori Matsumoto (actor),
Plot: Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist, is on the other side of the gate. He has befriended someone who resembles his brother, Al, and has met a gypsy resembling Rose. He finds out that the Germans are planning on opening the gate, and attack the other side, which is Ed and Al's home. Although Al has learned a lot, he cannot stop all of them, and Ed cannot use Alchemy while in the other side. Ed tries to stop them, and Al just tries to be able to talk to his brother again, who everyone else thinks is gone.
Keywords: alchemy, anime, based-on-comic, based-on-manga, biplane, brother-brother-relationship, cult-film, dragon, ethnic-slur, hitlerActors: Liev Schreiber (actor), Jena Malone (actress), Marek Vasut (actor), Max von Thun (actor), Peter Stormare (actor), Stockard Channing (actress), Peter O'Toole (actor), Robert Carlyle (actor), Jan Kuzelka (actor), Friedrich von Thun (actor), Jan Budar (actor), Matthew Modine (actor), David Calder (actor), Normand Corbeil (composer), Julianna Margulies (actress),
Plot: The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood, and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria, it describes the first world war from his point of view, and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how Hitler turned from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis, and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes his relationship with his mistress Eva Braun, and his decisions and enemies inside Germany and inside the Nazi party.
Keywords: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, animal-abuse, anti-semitism, art-school, austria, beer-hall, brown-shirt, cabaretActors: Mark Chapman (producer), Mark Chapman (director), Michael Burrell (actor), Michael Burrell (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Robert Freitag (actor), Doreen Soan (miscellaneous crew), Leslie Malton (actress), Laurence Olivier (actor), Peter R. Hunt (director), Keith Palmer (editor), Robert Webber (actor), Ronald Nitschke (actor), Dan van Husen (actor), Scott Glenn (actor), Edward Fox (actor), Patrick Stewart (actor), Ingrid Pitt (actress), Reginald Rose (writer), Stratford Johns (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller,Actors: Derek Jacobi (actor), Leon Lissek (actor), Bernard Archard (actor), Herb Andress (actor), Carl Duering (actor), Heiner Lauterbach (actor), Michael Gahr (actor), John Gielgud (actor), Michael Gough (actor), Sky du Mont (actor), Rutger Hauer (actor), Ian Holm (actor), Stephen Collins (actor), Trevor Howard (actor), Hans Meyer (actor),
Plot: A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, based-on-autobiography, based-on-novel, germany, hitler, nazi, number-in-title, third-reich, world-war-twoActors: Andrzej Szenajch (actor), Henryk Bak (actor), Ryszard Pietruski (actor), Stanislaw Milski (actor), Sylwester Przedwojewski (actor), Jerzy Turek (actor), Jerzy Moes (actor), Józef Pieracki (actor), Jan Englert (actor), Andrzej Lapicki (actor), Leonard Andrzejewski (actor), Andrzej Krasicki (actor), Janusz Bylczynski (actor), Janusz Bukowski (actor), Zbigniew Koczanowicz (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Nathaniel Shilkret (composer), Daniele Amfitheatrof (composer), George Lynn (actor), Frank Reicher (actor), Otto Reichow (actor), Ray Spiker (actor), Lewis Stone (actor), Wilhelm von Brincken (actor), Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (actor), Frederick Giermann (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), Edward L. Cahn (director), John C. Higgins (writer), John C. Higgins (writer), Eric Zeisl (composer),
Plot: Narrated by 'Lewis Stone (I)' (qv), this 1943 MGM production looks at the roots of Nazi Germany's drive for geographic expansion. The roots of Hitler's drive for world domination is attributed to the ideas of Prof. Karl Ernst Haushofer, once a General in the German army who was humiliated and blamed, along with others of his class, for the outcomes of World War I. His theory, known as Geopolitik, posited that Germany's central location in Europe made it ideal to dominate Europe and provide a counter-balance to the British naval domination of the seas. With Hitler coming to power, Haushofer became part of Hitler's government and had even greater influence.
Keywords: conquer-the-world, crime-does-not-pay-series, espionage, geopolitics, german-history, germany, hitler, intelligence-service, university, voice-over-narration