Film of Hitler confidants set for Smithsonian Channel debut
Source: AP
By JOE MANDAK
PITTSBURGH (AP) American television viewers get their first chance to see and hear Adolf Hitler's inner circle describe the dictator's final hours in filmed interviews when "The Day Hitler Died" premieres on the Smithsonian Channel.
The documentary marks the first time viewers outside Germany will see the filmed interviews by Michael Musmanno, a Navy attorney who presided at one of the Nuremburg war crimes trials and later became a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice.
After the trials, Musmanno spent more than two years tracking down witnesses and re-interviewing them on camera in 1948 to prove Hitler was dead, hoping to thwart rumors spawned when Soviet dictator Josef Stalin claimed Hitler had escaped his underground Berlin bunker.
"There can be no doubt that Adolf Hitler, the fuhrer of Germany, the master criminal of the world, the greatest gangster who ever disgraced the human race, is dead," Musmanno says, concluding the interviews.
FULL story at link.
This photo provided by the Smithsonian Channel shows, an actor portraying Adolf Hitler, seated, addressing his top generals in the new Smithsonian Channel special, The Day Hitler Died." The documentary premieres on the Smithsonian Channel on Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, at 8 p.m. EDT/PDT. (Smithsonian Channel via AP)
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Galileo126
(2,016 posts)underpants
(182,877 posts)"Tonight! On the Hostory Channel, did Confederate ghosts influence Hitler?"
Yupster
(14,308 posts)because it has the ring of truth to it.
underpants
(182,877 posts)Stooped auto correct. Editing it
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)It was all written there in Bible code.
underpants
(182,877 posts)Now! .....in color!!!
Kingofalldems
(38,475 posts)underpants
(182,877 posts)That's pretty much that whole show
underpants
(182,877 posts)Thanks for the heads up
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Steiner's cameo was never filmed.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)one I just saw yesterday on Netflix, Smithsonian "The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz", had within several good interviews. One interview was of a camp prisoner, who was a symphony cello player before all Jewish musicians were sent to Auschwitz. Once there, musicians had to be ready to play at a moments notice.
"Germans come to the bloc at anytime and request music to be played for them"
By day the nazi Doctor Mengele, would torture, experiment on his collections of 'unusual prisoners' & at night he would demand music to be played for him.
"Mengele always requested Shumann Trimeri"
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 12, 2015, 03:12 PM - Edit history (2)
Just last week, I saw him on a decades-old rerun of "To Tell the Truth." It ran on BUZZR, the all-game and quiz show channel, aired in DC on channel 5.2
Watch To Tell The Truth Season 6 Episode 7 S6E7 Dorothy Sera, Michael A. Musmanno, Anne Sedlowskaus
Season 6 Episode 7
Aired date: Feb 12, 1962
Plot: Contestants: Dorothy Sera, Michael A. Musmanno, Anne Sedlowskaus Panel: Dina Merrill, Peggy Cass, Tom Poston, Johnny Carson
happyslug
(14,779 posts)Beside the law, where he favored Labor and Civil Rights (Through he had a strong aversion to Communism AND pornography) he took up every battle to defend Columbus. In the meantime he volunteer to serve in the US Navy (as a lawyer and later a Military Governor) where he was noted to doing his best to feed the Italians living under his area of Military Governorship (he was accused of being "To Italian" by his British Superiors).
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/phmen/My%20Documents/Downloads/4450-4295-2-PB.pdf
He was the presiding judge over the Einsatzgruppen cases of Nurenburg:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen_trial
https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/NT_war-criminals_Vol-IV.pdf
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007080
But he is best remember for his defence of Columbus:
In Musmanno's view,the press instantly and uncritically accepted the authors' claims as proven fact. This trial by media, he felt,had effectively taken away Columbus' title of "Discoverer" without due process. So he wrote a book, Columbus Was First, to set the record straight: "So long as there are theorists who dress the legend-enshrouded figure of Lief Ericson with the mantle of Finder of America, so long as archeological ambiguities and maps of dubious pedigree are flaunted as new 'proofs' of their theories by the daily press, so long as these 'proofs' are accepted unquestioningly by a large portion of the public, satisfied that the experts' have spoken then I feel this book has its raison d'etre."
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/phmen/My%20Documents/Downloads/4450-4295-2-PB.pdf
tokenlib
(4,186 posts)Wouldn't take much ..and it might be popular... When "Newsmax" has more history than the "History Channel" you know things are ass backwards..