"Mastermind (TV series) Mastermind is a British television game show for the BBC, famous for its challenging questions, intimidating setting and air of seriousness. Devised by Bill Wright, the basic format of ""Mastermind"" has never changed—four and in later contests five or six contestants face two rounds, one on a specialised subject of the contestant's choice, the other a general knowledge round. Wright drew inspiration from his experiences of being interrogated by the Gestapo during World War II. The atmosphere is helped by ""Mastermind""s famously ominous theme music, ""Approaching Menace"" by the British composer Neil Richardson. The quiz programme originated"
"During their two month stay in the cottage, the family had to face difficult conditions reminiscent of real wartime atmosphere. They were threatened by attacks of Gestapo and are allowed only limited communication with outside world. Nazi soldiers and other characters in the show were played by hired actors. The show was criticized for its alleged trivialization of the suffering real wartime survivors. The show was conceived by documentary maker Zora Cejnkova, inspired by Channel 4's ""The 1940s House"", Philip Zimbardo's 1970s Stanford prison experiment and the BBC's ""The Experiment"". Czech psychologist was consulted about the project, and he said"
"Holocaust (miniseries) Holocaust is a 1978 American four part television miniseries which tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspectives of the fictional Weiss family of German Jews and that of a rising member of the SS, who gradually becomes a merciless war criminal. ""Holocaust"" highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as ""Kristallnacht"", the creation of Jewish ghettos, and later, the use of gas chambers. Although the miniseries won several awards and received critical acclaim, it was criticized by some, including the noted Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel, who described"
"Uprising (2001 film) Uprising is a 2001 war/drama television miniseries about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The film was directed by Jon Avnet and written by Avnet and Paul Brickman. This miniseries was first aired on the NBC television network over two consecutive nights in November 2001. On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland and after which the regulation was promulgated that all Polish Jews should move to the newly created Warsaw Ghetto. As in all the ghettos, a Judenrat was appointed and was responsible for the administration of the ghetto. The film tells the moral dilemmas faced by Adam"
"by the Gestapo took place at their headquarters in Dagmarhus. Quistgaard's prison diary and letters to his wife and mother suggest that he did not feel he was subjected to torture, but rather that there was some element of mutual respect between him and his interrogators. Quistgaard's initial interrogation included sleep deprivation, including one 28-hour interrogation, and thinly veiled threats of being beaten with a rubber baton. This changed one day when his interrogator proclaimed: ""It is up to you alone how long this woman has to remain here"", after which the woman was revealed to be his mother. His"
"to talk about war pensions. His memories began tumbling out, shocking the television hosts who were unable to believe what they were hearing. As a result, the BBC began production of a documentary, discovering the name of the young Jewish prisoner Avey had befriended in Auschwitz, Ernst Lobethal."" When asked why he risked his life to infiltrate the Jewish sections of the concentration camp, he states that he needed to see for himself ""the unspeakable things being done to the Jews at Auschwitz."" At the age of 91, he reflects back on this episode: He had assumed that Ernst had"
"after the war and wrote her memoirs, ""Inside the Gestapo: A Jewish Woman's Secret War"" (Macmillan, 1985). Her story recalls false identity papers, helping POWs escape, working within the Gestapo, hearing screams of SS victims, stealing information to rescue Jews scheduled for transport and killing a Gestapo officer. The story was made into a 1991 TV film, ""A Woman at War"", with Martha Plimpton in the lead role. Her story also inspired Paul Verhoeven for the movie Zwartboek (Black Book). Helene Moszkiewiez Helene Moszkiewiez (December 20, 1920 – June 18, 1998) worked within the Belgian Resistance during World War II,"
"was critically aimed both at certain forms of television entertainment and at a latent xenophobia still thriving in the whole world. It created an incredibly heated week, capturing the European right-wing drift in real time and exposing dormant and open xenophobia for the world to see. The show was produced in Austria, and broadcast from the container set installed in Vienna. Shortly before Schlingensief came up with this project, the Freedom Party of Austria, under the leadership of Jörg Haider had been elected into the National Council of Austria and formed part of the new government. The basis of the"
"Heinrich Baab Heinrich Baab (born 27 July 1908-?) was a secretary and Gestapo chief of Frankfurt at the Lindenstrasse station. The Gestapo (Secret State Police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. After the war in Europe ended, Heinrich Baab received a sentence of life imprisonment in March 1950 for his involvement in the Final Solution as the head of Division IIB2. He was imprisoned from 1948 to 1973. On 6 April 1950 he was convicted of murdering 55 Jews from 1938 to 1943 and the attempted murders of 21 Jews, as well as for maltreatment"
"Berlin Diary Berlin Diary (1934–1941) is a first-hand account of the rise of Nazi Germany and its road to war, as witnessed by the American journalist William L. Shirer. Shirer, a radio reporter for CBS, covered Germany for several years until the Nazi press censors made it impossible for him to report objectively to his listeners in the United States; feeling increasingly uncomfortable, he left the country. The identities of many of Shirer's German sources were disguised to protect these people from retaliation by the German secret police, the Gestapo. The contents of this book provided much of the material"
"the camp. Asked about parallels between LeBeau's incarceration and his own, Clary said, ""Stalag 13 is not a concentration camp. It's a POW camp, and that's a world of difference. You never heard of a prisoner of war being gassed or hanged. When the show went on the air, people asked me if I had any qualms about doing a comedy series dealing with Nazis and concentration camps. I had to explain that it was about prisoners of war in a Stalag, not a concentration camp, and although I did not want to diminish what soldiers went through during their"
"Guido Knopp Guido Knopp (born 29 January 1948 in Treysa, Hesse) is a German journalist and author. He is well known in Germany, mainly because he has produced a great number of TV documentaries, predominantly about the ""Third Reich"" and National Socialism, but also about other topics, such as Stalinism. After gaining his doctorate degree in history and political science, Knopp worked as a newspaper editor at the Welt am Sonntag and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In 1978 he took up employment at the German TV station ZDF. Since then, he has produced many documentaries about the Nazi dictatorship like"
"Stawka większa niż życie Stawka większa niż życie (""More Than Life at Stake"", ""Stakes Larger Than Life"" or ""Playing for High Stakes"") was a Polish black and white TV series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, captain Hans Kloss (real name, Stanisław Kolicki, codename J-23), who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland. The series was filmed from March 1967 to October 1968. There were 18 episodes, 9 of which were directed by Janusz Morgenstern and the other 9 by Andrzej Konic. The show was very popular in Poland, the"
"from pilot and unshown episodes. Arthur Mathews has said that the production company sent him a copy of the entire series. The filming of the series was cancelled immediately by Sky (BSkyB) on its acquisition of British Satellite Broadcasting. The show is one of the most controversial programmes ever to have been screened in the UK; it was listed at #61 on Channel 4's ""100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell"". Geoff Atkinson maintains that the aim of the show was not to shock, but to examine the appeasement surrounding Hitler in 1938. He concedes that the satire of this appeasement"
"his skill to assume the perspective of a godlike overseer of the modern metropolis. During the Second World War, the Netherlands were occupied by Nazi Germany. Van Genk's father was a member of the Dutch resistance, and hid Jews in the family home. Maddeningly, their fate is not recorded in the literature on the artist. In 1944 when Willem was seventeen years old, the Gestapo visited the family apartment in the Magnoliastraat in search of the father, who was not there. In his stead Willem was interrogated by the Gestapo, who beat the adolescent, subjecting him, in the words of"
"so-called ""Partei Kommune"", which he portrayed as selfish, corrupt and sexually depraved gangsters whose behaviour shamefully contrasted with 'the devotion to duty shown by our brave troops freezing to death in Russia'. The first broadcast was on the evening of 23 May 1941 and the final broadcast in late October 1943. The scripting ostensibly had the Gestapo storm the station and shoot ""Der Chef"". Unfortunately, the recording engineer who played the transcription did not understand German, and played the ""death"" of Der Chef twice. The station was replaced by ""Soldatensender Calais"". Gustav Siegfried Eins Gustav Siegfried Eins (GS1) was a"
"Question"" never fully realized by the Schutzstaffel (SS). Fritz Schultz took his manufacture along with 6,000 Jews and their 400 children to the nearby Trawniki concentration camp commanded by Karl Streibel. A number of vastly profitable enterprises were run by the SS in the Lublin reservation, part of the General Government during the Holocaust in Poland. ""SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant der Polizei"" Odilo Globocnik from Austria racked up millions of Reichsmarks and gold from his murderous Operation Reinhard. The business was booming, with large amounts of money initially coming from the victims of gassing, and foodstuffs requisitioned from terrorized farmers for"
"Gestapo handlers to possess and bear firearms. Its primary goal was to infiltrate the Jewish resistance network and reveal its connections with the Polish underground aiding and hiding Jews in the General Government. The organization was able to inflict considerable damage on both fronts. Żagiew agents were also instrumental in organizing the Hotel Polski affair in Warsaw, a German scheme to lure thousands of wealthy Jews under false promises of evacuation to South America into a trap and extort their money and valuables before killing most of them. Żagiew Żagiew (""The Torch"", ""Die Fackel""), also known as Żydowska Gwardia Wolności"
"Tunstall and Newborn were taken many miles to Frankenberg on the river Eder and interrogated by the Gestapo. During WWII, the Gestapo were notorious for not verifying information and sending people to concentration camps. Not much was known about the Gestapo in 1941. Tunstall described how even the Wehrmacht, who had transported them, become anxious in the malevolent presence of the Gestapo. Tunstall wanted to get out of the presence of the softly spoken Gestapo interrogator as soon as possible. When Tunstall was answering his questions, Bruce and Newborn looked at Tunstall with disdain, consequentially, when Bruce and Newborn were"
"and organize retaliatory bombing, leafleting and execution of Germans captured by the Allies, in response to the Nazi Holocaust. The description of the condition of Jews in German occupied Poland and Feiner's instructions threw Zygielbojm into depression since he knew that the Allies would be unwilling to help (Zygielbojm eventually committed suicide as a protest against the indifference of the Allied governments in the face of the Holocaust). After the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the liquidation of the Ghetto by the Germans, Feiner tried desperately to help those who were sent to slave labor camps. Leon Feiner survived the Nazi"
"Dennis Gastmann Dennis Gastmann (born 11 June 1978) is a German filmmaker, writer and television presenter. His notable works include the bestsellers ""With 80,000 questions around the world"", ""Walk to Canossa"" and the German TV series ""Mit 80,000 Fragen um die Welt"". Gastmann was born in Osnabrück, Germany and began writing at age seven. After winning a writing contest and working for the local newspaper, he studied journalism and political science at the University of Hamburg. At 24 he joined the TV-magazine ""Extra3"", shown on North German Broadcasting. After four years, he became so called ""world reporter"" of the political"
"they fooled singer and former Expedition Robinson-star Emma Andersson into an interview where they made as many Nazi-references as possible and observed her reactions. This included jokes such as naming the show they claimed to work for ""Treblinka"", claiming that Leni Riefenstahl was a modern director of music-videos, that Joseph Goebbels was a DJ whose music resembled Andersson's, and dozens of other references to the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Throughout the interview, Andersson wore a T-shirt with the text ""Treblinka - Class of '45"". Andersson didn't seem to react at all on tape. She later claimed that her reactions"
"gave Hippler credit as a reward ""for his excellent work in the newsreel department"". Franz Hippler was interviewed in the Emmy Award-winning program ""The Propaganda Battle"" in the PBS series ""Walk Through the Twentieth Century"" (1983–1984). In this interview he stated that he regretted being listed as the director of ""The Eternal Jew"" because it resulted in being interrogated by the Allies after the war. He thought this was unfair because, in his opinion, he had nothing to do with the killing of Jews. In an interview shown in the German documentary series ""Holocaust"" (2000), the 90-year-old Hippler described the"
"as a ""Latino Jew"" after having spent his early years in South America. Although he makes fun of his own heritage, and all stereotypes, one of his more serious and memorable excursions involved taking white supremacist John Metzger to Auschwitz to view the Nazi concentration camps and the gas chamber where Handel's grandfather was executed. The German government originally thought that KFI was a Neo-Nazi radio station and did not want to allow the trip, but finally relented after being presented with more information. He hosted a weekly syndicated television show, ""Judge For Yourself"", which was canceled due to low"
"Thomas Gottschalk Thomas Johannes Gottschalk (born 18 May 1950) is a German radio and television host, entertainer and actor. He is best-known for hosting ""Wetten, dass..?"", for many years Europe's biggest television show, which he led to a huge success in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol between 1987 and 2011. Until 2015 he was also the testimonial personality in television advertisements for Haribo confectionery. Gottschalk was born in the German city of Bamberg, Bavaria, as the son of a lawyer. After attending the ""Humanistisches Gymnasium"" (humanities-oriented high school) in Kulmbach, he studied history and German philology, eventually taking his"
"of the founder of the Gestapo. US Army intelligence psychologist Capt. Gustav Gilbert hears from the prisoner how he knows he will hang but first will convince the German people that what he did was for them The suicides of Hitler and Himmler have left Göring the highest-ranking Nazi survivor and Prison Commandant Colonel Burton Andrus confides in Gilbert that without him they have not got a case. Prison guard Bud Jones tells of the extraordinary procedures put in place following the suicide of Robert Ley. Gilbert is assigned prisoner liaison to watch over the inmates and Göring confides in"
"as a national socialist, and turned against the previous director Bofinger. Formis later came into conflict with the Nazis, as his grandmother, the wife of Christian Friedrich von Leins, was Jewish. One account also cited that he became disillusioned during the course of the Nazi revolution and that, as a dramatic protest, he cut the landline of the radio broadcasting one of Hitler's public addresses so that the transmission of his three-hour speech to millions of Germans listening at home went dead. For this action, he was arrested and beaten by the Gestapo. After his Jewish ancestry was revealed, he"
"of her using public transport. Schramm attempted to intervene and was repeatedly struck in the face by Baab, but not arrested himself. Hermann Schramm testified against Baab at his trial. The Baab trial in Frankfurt was described by American journalist Kay Boyle in an article in ""The New Yorker"", later also published as an introduction to her story collection ""The Smoking Mountain"". Heinrich Baab Heinrich Baab (born 27 July 1908-?) was a secretary and Gestapo chief of Frankfurt at the Lindenstrasse station. The Gestapo (Secret State Police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. After the"
"cast members. Selpin's close friend and the co-writer of the script, Walter Zerlett-Olfenius, reported him to the Gestapo, and Selpin was promptly arrested and personally questioned by Joseph Goebbels, who was the driving force behind the ""Titanic"" project. Selpin, however, did not retract his statement – infuriating Goebbels, since the Propaganda Minister had personally chosen Selpin to direct his propaganda epic. Within 24 hours of his arrest, Selpin was found hanged in his jail cell, which was ruled a suicide. However, in reality, Goebbels had arranged for Selpin to be hanged and the hanging framed as a suicide. The cast"
"Max Troll Max Troll (1902 – 7 April 1972) was a German communist-turned-informer who betrayed hundreds of Bavarian communists to the Bavarian Political Police, a forerunner of the Gestapo, between 1933 and 1936. Troll spent a short time in Dachau concentration camp and served in the German Army during World War II. After the war he was sentenced to ten years in jail for his role as informer and released after five, in contrast to his Gestapo handlers who were not prosecuted. Troll was never a Nazi, opposing the regime instead, but a number of factors have been cited for"
"Gestapo The Gestapo (), abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various security police agencies of Prussia into one organisation. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it passed to the administration of ""Schutzstaffel"" (SS) national leader Heinrich Himmler, who in 1936 was appointed Chief of German Police (""Chef der Deutschen Polizei"") by Hitler. The Gestapo at this time becoming a national rather than a Prussian state agency as a suboffice of the ""Sicherheitspolizei"" (SiPo) (Security Police). Then, from"
"listen to me! It's all I ask of you. No money. No pity. Just listen to me!"""" When the train crossed into Poland, he tells them, it was taken over by the Gestapo, the German secret police. The Jews were transferred to trucks, then driven to a forest in Galicia, near Kolomaye, where they were forced to dig pits. When they had finished, each prisoner had to approach the hole, present his neck, and was shot. Babies were thrown into the air and used as targets by machine gunners. He tells them about Malka, the young girl who took three"
"forced to sing military songs to entertain the Nazis; and Mordechaï Podchlebnik. Lanzmann also has a secretly filmed interview with Franz Schalling, a German security guard, who describes the workings of Chełmno. Walter Stier, a former Nazi bureaucrat, describes the workings of the railways. Stier insists he was too busy managing railroad traffic to notice his trains were transporting Jews to their deaths. The Warsaw ghetto is described by Jan Karski, a member of the Polish Underground who worked for the Polish government-in-exile, and Franz Grassler, a Nazi administrator in Warsaw who liaised with Jewish leaders. A Christian, Karski sneaked"