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The Ultimate 'Screen Nazi' - Where Eagles Dare Star's Forgotten Essex Grave
Mark Felton Productions ^ | 2/15/26 | Mark Felton

Posted on 02/15/2026 11:23:18 AM PST by MAGA2017

When I was growing up in the 1980s, I often saw old war movies on TV, and in many appeared a certain German actor usually playing a Nazi villain, from 'Where Eagles Dare' to 'Escape to Victory'. I recently discovered that this star, Anton Diffring, is buried only 9 miles from my childhood home, so I decided to make a pilgrimage and find his largely forgotten last resting place and thank him for so many great performances.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: antondiffring; feltonisgay; german; grave; movies; ww2

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To: rlmorel
He murdered Diane Kruger .... Unforgivable!


41 posted on 02/15/2026 12:19:39 PM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: Rummyfan

That is one fine Fraulein.


42 posted on 02/15/2026 12:20:28 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: DFG

to me, his face screams “fahrenheit 451”.


43 posted on 02/15/2026 12:22:15 PM PST by Vroomfondel
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To: dfwgator

Ja, sehr hĂĽbsch!


44 posted on 02/15/2026 12:22:44 PM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: DFG

Left out Derek Jacobi as Hitler in “Inside the 3rd Reich”.


45 posted on 02/15/2026 12:23:34 PM PST by Reily
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To: Rummyfan

Another good one was the one who played Freisler in Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, he really nailed him.


46 posted on 02/15/2026 12:24:02 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator

Nope. Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List.


47 posted on 02/15/2026 12:24:53 PM PST by LouAvul (I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6)
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To: dfwgator

Leon Askin, a very fine actor.


48 posted on 02/15/2026 12:25:14 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Steely Tom

You old...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty_(1935_film)


49 posted on 02/15/2026 12:25:15 PM PST by dakine
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To: LouAvul

“Today is history.....”


50 posted on 02/15/2026 12:25:43 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dakine

Ha ha!


51 posted on 02/15/2026 12:27:54 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Rummyfan

Love “The Wild Geese”. Long-time favorite of mine.


52 posted on 02/15/2026 12:28:06 PM PST by MAGA2017
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To: x

I read somewhere that the actor who played LeBeau in Hogan’s Heroes was actually a Holocaust survivor.


53 posted on 02/15/2026 12:29:43 PM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: dfwgator
IMHO the most evil portrayal of a Nazi was that of Gustav Wagner in “Escape From Sobibor”.

One of my favorite films about the World War II era. An absolute masterpiece.

Watching the Jewish prisoners gruesomely dispatch their Nazi captors one by one throughout the camp is a thing of exquisite beauty.

54 posted on 02/15/2026 12:32:47 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
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To: Rummyfan

55 posted on 02/15/2026 12:33:16 PM PST by DFG
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To: MAGA2017
The Ultimate 'Screen Nazi'...

My personal favorite:

- Czechoslovakia und Poland, kaputt! Und fräulein mit the glockenspiel, verboten! Und the apple strudel mit the liederkranz, gesundheit! Everything is gesundheit, kaputt und verboten!

- Gentlemen, attention!

- Heil Hitler!

- Heil... Droppen sie dead!

- Quiet! We're indoctrinating! Ist you all indoctrinated?

- Jawohl!

- Ist you all good little Nazis?

- Jawohl!

- Ist you all good little Adolfs?

- Jawohl!

- Then we will all salute Feldwebel Schulz. About face! Sieg heil! Sieg heil! Sieg heil!

- One fuehrer is enough. Now please, gentlemen, take off those mustaches. Or do you want me arrested by the Gestapo?

- Jawohl!

Stalag 17 (1953)

56 posted on 02/15/2026 12:33:17 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: DFG

I liked Oskar Werner too. He died quite young.


57 posted on 02/15/2026 12:35:06 PM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: Who is John Galt?

Billy Wilder did a better job sending up the Nazis than Mel Brooks did!


58 posted on 02/15/2026 12:36:54 PM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: Who is John Galt?
Moe Howard did a good Hitler...


59 posted on 02/15/2026 12:37:35 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I pretty much liked everything Rutger Hauer did.


60 posted on 02/15/2026 12:45:45 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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