Posted on 06/27/2020 4:04:11 PM PDT by simpson96
In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. Nazis put up seven crosses for a demonstrative execution upon each of their captures. The story focuses on the last remaining escapee, who relies on own courage and the compassion of strangers to avoid the seventh cross.
Scene from "The Seventh Cross" (1944 - Spencer Tracy, Hume Cronyn)
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The scariest part from that clip?
The little Hitler Youth Antifa rats scurrying around looking for the escapee.
I also recommend “The Mortal Storm”, where students burn books and reject their professor for not teaching them “facts” in accord with nazi doctrine.
(Couldn’t happen in the US, of course, where universities are never influenced by political doctrines...)
True story..the film...other peoples lives
I just re-watched “The Mortal Storm” a couple weeks ago (I have it on my home video server). It’s a great movie and shows how rapidly society can change. It’s especially close to home for me because my great-grandparents lived through that time in Germany. I wish they had written about it. My grandparents got out of Germany in 1927 with all the rising communist, socialist, Freikorps, and Nazi unrest.
Thanks for the recommendation for “The Seventh Cross.” It’s not available for streaming on Netflix or Amazon Prime and it isn’t in our local library DVD collection, so I bought a copy on eBay for $10.
it’s still very amazing that, before the Internet, I would never have found out about either of those movies and never would have been able to watch them. I’m sure neither was stocked by the local Blockbuster store. Now, with a few clicks inside a couple of minutes, I can find it for streaming, borrowing, or purchase. Incredible times we live in.
The students reject their professor...but then it gets a LOT worse for the professor when the Party comes for him.
I wanted to thank you for this recommendation. I got the DVD from our local library and just finished the film tonight. Great movie...and very disturbing. Hitler had risen to Chancellor in 1933, then Führer in 1934. Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, opened in 1933, shortly after Hitler became chancellor. It shows how fast things can deteriorate — yet most Germans thought things were really improving in the post-WW I era.
Correction...per my earlier post, I bought a copy for $10. It was mo ey well spent.
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