Friday, September 20, 2013

First U.S. anti-Hitler film discovered in Brussels archive

Handout photo by Cinematheque Royale de Belgique shows a scene from the 1934 U.S. anti-Nazi film "Hitler's Reign of Terror" By Robert-Jan Bartunek BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The first U.S. film to warn about the dangers of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime has been found in a Brussels film archive, having lain unnoticed for some 75 years. "Hitler's Reign of Terror" was produced by Cornelius Vanderbilt, an heir to the wealthy American industrialist family, who visited Germany as Hitler was voted into power in 1933. The film revolves around footage that Vanderbilt shot and smuggled out, showing Nazi party rallies, book-burnings and the ransacking of Jewish shops. ...








via Movies News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/first-u-anti-hitler-film-discovered-brussels-archive-184352016.html

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