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Wikipedia article




'The Gleiwitz Case' is an East German war film directed by Gerhard Klein. It was released in 1961. The plot was reconstructed exactly according to the statements of SS-Man Alfred Naujocks before British authorities at the Nuremberg trials.[http://www.mediendienste.info/leihmedien/details.asp?qTitleNumber=8395735 Der Fall Gleiwitz] Landesmediendienste Bayern

Plot



The film themes the SS stage-managed Gleiwitz incident at the evening of 31.8.1939. This served national-nazist propaganda as a pretext to start second World War by raiding Poland the next day.

Cast



* Hannjo Hasse as Alfred Helmut Naujocks

* Christoph Bayertt as Franz Sitte

* Wolfgang Kalweit as Hans-Wilhelm Kraweit

* Georg Leopold as Franz Wyczorek

* Herwart Grosse as Heinrich Mller

* Rolf Ripperger as Bieratzki

* Manfred Gnther as Khnel

* Rudolf Woschiek as Tutzauer

* Hilmar Thate as Sachsenhausen inmate

* Rolf Ludwig as SS doctor

* Friedrich Richter as Jewish professor

* Gnter Naumann as SS man

* Paul-Dolf Neis as SD chief in Gleiwitz

* Werner Dissel as teacher

References




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