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The Heusinger Case

Compilation film about Adolf Heusinger, Inspector General of the West German Armed Forces. [WARNING: Contains distressing images of dead soldiers and hanging victims.]. The film examines Heusinger's influence within the Nazi Party considering the fact that he did not stand trial for his apparent connection with the plot to assassinate Hitler in July 1944. It therefore questions his (and by association the West's) motives in his current position as a NATO general. Includes extensive footage of the 20th July Plot trial in Roland Freisler's People's Court. Also includes footage of Hitler making a speech shortly before the beginning of the Second World War.

Credits

Friedensrates der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (sponsoring body); Joachim Hellwig (director)

Complete catalog record
Original source: Reproduction of: GDR (German Democratic Republic), 1960. 16mm Silent BW pos. | The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-507285. | Sponsored by Friedensrates der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. | Production Company: Film des DDR-Fernsehens.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:21:38) : sound, black and white | monochrome
Subjects: Generals -- Germany -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany | Military policy | Generals | Germany (West) -- Military policy | Germany (West) | Nazism | Assassinations | Conspiracy | Arrests | Gestapo | Trials | Prisons | Fascism | Second World War (1939-1945) | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) | Speeches | Soldiers | Bombing | Operation Barbarossa | Wars | Walkenried | Berlin | Germany | West Germany (FDR) | Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) | Heusinger, Adolf (1897-1982) | Stauffenberg, Claus von (1907-1944) | Lindemann, Fritz (1894-1944) | Strauss, Franz Josef (1915-1988) | Documentary | 1946-1953 | 1954-1975 | Heusinger, Adolf, 1897-1982 | 1939-1945

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  8. Tales from New World 1969
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Sources

  1. UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record

Record added 2026-11-08 20:56:10