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Title: Adolf Hitler

Description: Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889-April 30, 1945), shown at the Wolf's Lair, 1944, with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini; AKA: Duce; July 29, 1883-April 28, 1945), as both inspect the damage done after a bomb explosion in the conference room of the Nazi leader's Eastern Front military headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia (now Ketrzyn in Poland), the scene of an attempt to kill Hitler that failed on June 20, 1944; the assassination attempt, plotted by top German commanders, was spear-headed by Klaus Schenk von Stauffenberg (Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg; November 15, 1907-July 21, 1944), who was profiled by Eduard Franz in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel; and by Tom Cruise in the 2008 film Valkyrie, the latter movie focusing upon the attempted assassination of Hitler in July 1944; 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; Mussolini was profiled in many films and TV shows, but most notably by Joe Devlin in the 1942 film The Devil with Hitler; by Paul Porcasi in the 1942 film Star Spangled Rhythm; by Joe Devlin again in the 1943 film Nazty Nuisance; exceptionally by Rod Steiger in the 1981 film The Lion of the Desert; by Fernando Briamo in the 1984 film Claretta; by Bob Hoskins in the 1985 made-for-TV film Mussolini and I; by George C. Scott in the 1985 TV series Mussolini: The Untold Story; and by Claudio Spadaro in the 1999 film Tea with Mussolini;

Category: World War II

Topic: Germany

Keywords: assassination attempts, autocrats, Axis Powers, conference rooms, conspiracies, dictators, fascism, fascists, films, military offenses, motion pictures, movies, National Socialism, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Nazism, plots, Second World War, Third Reich, tyrants, wars of aggressions, Wolf's Lair, World War II, WWII, 1940s.