The Hitler Gang

1944
1h 41m

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The film depicts the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement from a small radical political adventurer and cell to the dictatorial regime of Germany in the genre of a gangster film.The film depicts the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement from a small radical political adventurer and cell to the dictatorial regime of Germany in the genre of a gangster film.The film depicts the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement from a small radical political adventurer and cell to the dictatorial regime of Germany in the genre of a gangster film.

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One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Boston Wednesday 8 October 1958 on WBZ (Channel 4); it first aired in Seattle Wednesday 1 July 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).

Goofs
Adolf Hitler was already a member of the German Workers' Party by the time Ernst Röhm joined it in 1919. In the movie it is depicted as the other way around.

Quotes
Captain Ernst Röhm: Gerlich has shot himself.
Streicher: He's the first man who shot himself in the head six times.

Connections
Edited into Hitler (1962)

Soundtracks
Das Lied der Deutschen
(uncredited)
music by Joseph Haydn
original lyrics by August Heinrich Hoffman von Fallersleben
(played and sang various times in the movie)

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Many years ago, (early 1960s), I caught part of this on late night TV. I remember part of the announcer's intro, because when my dad walked in and asked what was on, I said,'some gangster movie', only recalling the word, gang. Some years later I realized that this was a somewhat accurate, though brief, look at Hitler's rise to power. Two scenes stick in my mind. Near the beginning, there is one where AH is a soldier in WWI with a handlebar mustache. He goes up to a mirror and cuts off the ends, creating the infamous 'toothbrush' look. Later during his ascent, he walks into a beer hall with his followers, pulls a pistol out of his overcoat pocket, and fires a few shots into the air. The 'beer hall putsch' ? Early forties, black and white. The actor REALLY had Hitler down pat.