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Title: Adolf Hitler, Keitel, von Brauchitsch, Halder

Description: Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889-April 30, 1945) conferring at Nazi Army headquarters in Berlin, Germany, August 1941 with (left to right) General Wilhelm Keitel (Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav Keitel; September 22, 1882-October 16, 1946), an unidentified aide; (Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch; October 4, 1881-October 18, 1948), and General Franz Halder (Franz Ritter Halder; June 30, 1884-April 2, 1972); Keitel, head of the High Command of the German Armed Forces, was sentenced to death at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials as a major war criminal and hanged; Von Brauchitsch directed the invasion of Poland that started World War II and was commander-in-chief of the Nazi German Army in 1938; blamed for the failure to capture Moscow he was removed from command in December 1941; after the war he was arrested on war crimes charges and died while in custody; Halder was head of the German Army General Staff from 1938 until September 1942 when Hitler dismissed him because of frequent disagreements about how to conduct German military actions in World War II; Adolf Hitler feared that Halder might lead an attempt to kill or overthrow him, so he dismissed Halder from the army and imprisoned him; Halder was freed by U.S. troops on May 4, 1945 and spent the next two years in a U.S. prisoner of war camp; after his release Halder worked as a war historian advisor to the U.S. Army Historical Division in the 1950s and died in 1972 in Bavaria; Hitler was portrayed in many documentary films, and most notably in feature (drama or docudrama) films by Charles Chaplin (in caricature in a lampooning portrait) in the 1940 film The Great Dictator; by Billy Russell (not credited) in the 1940 film Night Train to Munich; by Bobby Watson in the 1942 film The Devil With Hitler; by Tom Dugan (impersonating Hitler) in the 1942 film To Be or Not to Be; by Hitler himself (in archive footage) in the 1943 film Mission to Moscow; by Bobby Watson again in the 1943 film Hitler: Dead or Alive; by Bobby Watson again in the 1943 film That Nazty Nuisance; by Ludwig Donath in the 1943 film The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler; by Bobby Watson again in the 1944 film The Hitler Gang; by V. Savelyov in the 1949 film The Fall of Berlin; by M. Astangov in the 1959 film The Battle of Stalingrad; by Luther Adler in the 1951 film The Desert Fox; by Luther Adler again in the 1951 film The Magic Face; by Albin Skoda in the 1955 film Ten Days to Die; by Bobby Watson again in the 1957 film The Story of Mankind; by Kenneth Griffith in the 1958 film The Two-Headed Spy; by Hitler himself (in archive footage at the launch of the German pocket battleship Bismarck) in the 1960 film Sink the Bismarck!; by Bobby Watson again in the 1961 film On the Double; by Richard Basehart in the 1962 film Hitler; by Billy Frick in the 1966 film Is Paris Burning?; by Rolf Stiefel in the 1969 film The Battle of Britain; by Fritz Dits in the 1969 film The Great Battle; by Sidney Miller in the 1970 film Which Way to the Front?; by Alex Guinness in the 1973 film Hitler: The Last Ten Days; by Gunnar Moller in the 1974 film Days of Betrayal; by Peter Sellers in the 1974 film Soft Beds, Hard Battles; by Helmut Qualtinger in the 1975 film Ice Age; by Kurt Raab in the 1977 film Adolf and Marlene; by Rolf Kanies in the 2002 made-for-TV film Joe and Max; by David Bamber in the 2008 film Valkyrie;

Category: World War II

Topic: Germany

Keywords: attacks, autocrats, dictators, fascism, fascists, films, German field marshals, German generals, military leaders, military offenses, motion pictures, movies, National Socialism, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Nazism, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, panzers, Poland, Second World War, tanks, Third Reich, tyrants, war crimes, wars of aggression, World War II, WWII, 1940s.