Posted on 06/03/2025 3:55:02 PM PDT by Rummyfan
> Colonel Klink is by far the most famous Hollywood Nazi. <
Fun fact #1: Werner Klemperer agreed to play Colonel Klink, but only under the condition that Klink would be a fool who never succeeded.
Fun fact #2: The actors who played the main German characters were all Jews who had fled the Nazis, and later served in the American army.
Fact #3 (not so fun): I can’t watch the show. Even bumbling Nazis aren’t funny. But that’s just me. Your mileage may vary.
Professor Charles Rankin (Orson Welles) in The Stranger (1946).
Yep. You can’t buy a Hitler shirt on Amazon. And rightfully so. But you can buy Stalin and Mao shirts. There are many to choose from.
You’ve got to give the commies credit for one thing. They sure do know how to manipulate the stupid and the ignorant.
**I thought Robert Shaw in the otherwise painful Battle of the Bulge singing Das Panzerlied was pretty amazing.**
**— Colonel Hessler’s death in Battle of the Bulge**
He was hard to figure out until the end. He knew Germany was losing. His troops were very green. He had a big problem with the Malmedy massacre suggesting he knew military tactics and strategy.
“This war can go on!” I knew then he was crazy. Kicking out that fraulein in the beginning I liked as a 10 year old. Then when I saw it again as a 17 year old I was confused.
Gee... why didn’t I think of that...
“The poor bastard caught on the water wheel and crushed”
I’m going to disagree here. This was about Nazis getting what they deserved. This one didn’t. He saved the kid and lost his life for it.
“The ultimate was Albert Speer, he should have hung with the rest of them.”
The Court fell for his self-serving BS. Sauckel took the fall for him.
How can Lawrence Olivier’s “Dr. Christian Szell” in “The Marathon Man” be overlooked. Combining a desperately greedy Nazi war criminal with sadistic dentist is nightmare fuel.
Olivier was undergoing harsh cancer treatments at the time and certain this was his last shot, and he definitely put this monster over.
“Is it safe?”
That was a sad movie and scene. I was 13 when I saw it in a theater and it stuck with me.
Yea. The movie is fiction. Do better.
Donald Sutherland (an incredible actor IMHO) as Henry Faber, a German spy in The Eye Of The Needle and Donald Sutherland as Liam Devlin, a German spy who’s mission is to assassinate Churchill in The Eagle Has Landed . . .
But in the second Sutherland was not a Nazi... he was an IRA man. And he survived.
Paul Scofield in The Train, machined gun down by Burt Lancaster.
Standartenführer Hans "The Jew Hunter" Landa (Christoph Waltz), "Inglourious Basterds" (2009).
"Head Nazi" (Henry Gibson), "The Blues Brothers" (1980). Well, the funniest...
Toht (Ronald Lacey), "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981).
Lt. Col. Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), "Holocaust" (1978). The aspiring civil servant who becomes an enabler of mass nurder.
Great flick! Lancaster as La Biche....
Everyone in the German Army knows Hugo Stiglitz....
That’s a great flick. Laurence Olivier as a French Canadian trapper...
Don’t forget Otto Skorzeny.
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