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To: 43north

In "Night of the Generals", Tanz[Peter O'Toole] goes from the Wehrmacht to the Waffen SS between the part in Poland, and his divisional command in France. I was never aware he was modeled on Reinhard Heydrich. Could you provide a source for that?


89 posted on 02/08/2006 8:39:05 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: PzLdr
Re: In "Night of the Generals", Tanz[Peter O'Toole] goes from the Wehrmacht to the Waffen SS between the part in Poland, and his divisional command in France. I was never aware he was modeled on Reinhard Heydrich. Could you provide a source for that?

See Post 157...

164 posted on 02/08/2006 11:01:28 PM PST by Bender2 (Thanks to ya'll who've read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel...)
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To: PzLdr

No source. I noticed several similarities that lead me to believe this, i.e. Tanz commands tanks in battle / Heydrich goes flying in a combat aircraft and nearly gets killed, both are tall blond models of Aryan manhood, both are sociopathic killers, etc. Maybe the author didn't mean to model Tanz on Heydrich but there are sure a lot of coincidental likenesses.


236 posted on 02/09/2006 11:48:01 AM PST by 43north (Liberals are obsessed by the vulgarity of their lives & the obscenity of their behavior.)
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