"(b. 19 November 1937) and Abel Juda Sluizer (b. 21 May 1940), died at Auschwitz on 14 February 1943. Dora Gerson Dora Gerson (23 March 1899 – 14 February 1943) was a Jewish German cabaret singer and motion picture actress of the silent film era who died with her family at Auschwitz concentration camp. Born Dorothea Gerson in Berlin, Gerson began her career as a touring singer and actress in the Holtorf Tournee Truppe alongside actor Mathias Wieman in Germany where she met and married her first husband, film director Veit Harlan. The couple married in 1922 and divorced in"
"Berkin Elvan. The police negotiated with the gunmen for six hours, but eventually stormed the courthouse ""because of gunshots heard from inside the prosecutor's office"". The two gunmen died during the operation, while the prosecutor was badly wounded and later died of his injuries. Istanbul Çağlayan Justice Palace The Istanbul Çağlayan Justice Palace () is a courthouse in the Şişli district of Istanbul, Turkey. Inaugurated in July 2011, it is the largest courthouse in Europe, with an area of over . It was built by the VARYAP construction subsidiary of the Varlıbaş Group. On 31 March 2015 suspected members of"
"bullet-proof.” The climax of these attacks was that Erzberger was murdered on 26 August 1921 in Bad Griesbach, a spa in the Black Forest (Baden) while he was out for a walk. Due to his signing the armistice of 1918, Erzberger was regarded as a traitor by many on the political right. Manfred von Killinger, a leading member of the Germanenorden, masterminded his killing by recruiting two members of the ultra-nationalist death squad Organisation Consul: Heinrich Tillessen and Heinrich Schulz. Both were former Navy officers and members of the disbanded ""Marinebrigade Ehrhardt"". Erzberger's assassins were later smuggled into Hungary and"
"production which stalled true creativity and forced the most artistic talent from the country. Today it is watched not for its onetime artistic or style value but as a type of filmed ""time-capsule"" an invaluable historical filmed record of the great city of Berlin in the mid to late 1920s, soon to die. Over 30% of central Berlin was leveled by the end of World War II, changing the face of old Berlin forever. The Anhalter Bahnhof train station in central Berlin appears in the film. So does the Hotel Excelsior, once the largest hotel in Europe, located across the"
"is for good men to do nothing."" Fritz Gerlich Carl Albert Fritz (Michael) Gerlich (15 February 1883 – 30 June 1934) was a German journalist and historian, and one of the main journalistic resistors of Adolf Hitler. He was arrested and later killed at the Dachau concentration camp. Gerlich was born in Stettin, Pomerania, and grew up as the eldest of the three sons of wholesale and retail fishmonger Paul Gerlich and his wife Therese. In Autumn 1889, Gerlich was enrolled in the Marienstiftungymnasium (Our Lady's Grammar School) and graduated from his senior class there in 1901. In 1902 he"
"Mykonos restaurant assassinations In the Mykonos restaurant assassinations (Persian: ترور رستوران میکونوس, also the ""Mykonos Incident""), Iranian-Kurdish opposition leaders Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan and their translator Nouri Dehkordi were assassinated at the Mykonos Greek restaurant in Berlin, Germany on 17 September 1992. The assassination took place during the KDPI insurgency (1989–96), as part of the general Kurdish separatism in Iran. Sharafkandi, Abdoli, Ardalan and Dehkordi were murdered in a mafia-style attack at the Mykonos Greek restaurant located on Prager Strasse in Berlin at about 11 pm on 17 September 1992. Three victims died instantly, while the fourth died"
"at the 2010 Campus MovieFest International Grande Finale in Las Vegas, Nevada. A more detailed article appears in the . It has been closely consulted for this article. Kurt Gerstein Kurt Gerstein (11 August 1905 – 25 July 1945) was a German SS officer and head of technical disinfection services of the ""Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS"" (Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS). As he witnessed mass murders in the Nazi extermination camps Belzec and Treblinka, Gerstein gave corresponding information to the Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter, as well as to members of the Roman Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius"
"day of the shooting and helped renovating the building. Günter Hermann Ewen Günter Hermann Ewen (1962 – May 18, 1999) was a German mass murderer who killed four people and wounded at least nine others in Dillingen, Germany on May 16, 1999, before escaping to Sierck-les-Bains, France, where he killed another person, and wounded two more. Hunted by German and French police, he eventually committed suicide in a hotel in Strassen, Luxembourg on May 18. Ewen was born in Dillingen in 1962, being the youngest and only boy among five siblings, and suffered from asthma from childhood. He showed little"
"Staaken Studios Staaken Studios was a film studio located in Staaken on the outskirts of the German capital Berlin. A large former zeppelin hangar, it was converted to film use following the First World War and operated during the Weimar Republic. In July 1923 it was the largest studio in the world, with floor space of around 18,000 square feet. It was used for the construction of massive sets on a series of major productions of the silent era, including ""I.N.R.I."", ""Metropolis"", ""The Holy Mountain"" and ""The Ship of Lost Souls"". The 1927 Anglo-German co-production ""The Ghost Train"" was shot"
"were the only prisoners interrogated physically and violently The two escapers were taken away by the Zlin Gestapo in two cars which headed out onto the Breslau road and shot near Mahrisch Ostrau (later known as Moravska Ostrava and now just as Ostrava) their bodies being cremated in the local crematorium there and urns returned to Stalag Luft III were marked with the date 29 March 1944 and the name of the town Mahrisch, Kidder was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the ""Gestapo"". Originally his remains were buried at Sagan, he is now buried in part"
"at Staaken. Staaken Studios Staaken Studios was a film studio located in Staaken on the outskirts of the German capital Berlin. A large former zeppelin hangar, it was converted to film use following the First World War and operated during the Weimar Republic. In July 1923 it was the largest studio in the world, with floor space of around 18,000 square feet. It was used for the construction of massive sets on a series of major productions of the silent era, including ""I.N.R.I."", ""Metropolis"", ""The Holy Mountain"" and ""The Ship of Lost Souls"". The 1927 Anglo-German co-production ""The Ghost Train"""
"filming was over Roman and Gerron were sent to Auschwitz, where Gerron perished. Like jazz drummer and guitarist Coco Schumann, Roman survived. Gerron and clarinetist Fritz Weiss of the Jazz-Quintet-Weiss did not. Roman's """"Wir reiten auf hölzernen Pferden"""" was recorded on the album ""Terezín - Theresienstadt"", by Anne Sofie von Otter. Martin Roman Martin Roman (23 April 1910 – 12 May 1996) was a German jazz pianist. At the time of the Reichstag fire in February 1933, Martin was stopped by SS men at the entrance to the huge Vaterland emporium in Berlin, where his band, the Marek Weber Band,"
"Görlitz prison. The prisoners were interrogated harshly. Mike Casey and Gunn were both told that they would lose their heads. At Görlitz prison on the morning of 6 April 1944, Tony Bethell heard a truck arrive and saw three Germans in uniform call out the names of Denys Street, Neville McGarr, Jack Grisman, Sandy Gunn, Harold Milford, and John F Williams. Gunn was one of 50 escapees executed by the Gestapo. He was cremated at Breslau. Originally his remains were buried at Sagan, although his ashes are now interred in the Old Garrison Cemetery, Poznan. Gunn's name was amongst those"
"that they died on 31 March 1944 and had been cremated at Görlitz. He was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the ""Gestapo"". Originally cremated and buried at Sagan, he is now buried in part of the Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery. Post-war investigation found that a Gestapo agent named Lux led the squad who shot the group of six recaptured airmen beside the autobahn near Halbau on the instructions of a senior officer named Scharpwinkel. He was amongst the 47 murdered officers named in the British and Commonwealth press when the story became public knowledge on or"
"Stefan Schachermayr (1912–2008) and Franz Peterseil (1907–1991), as well as Adolf Gustav Kaufmann (1902–1974), head of the inspection department of the T4 central office in Berlin. ""Other literature see main article:"" Nazi Euthanasia Programme or Action T4 Hartheim Euthanasia Centre The Hartheim Euthanasia Centre () was a killing centre involved in the Nazi euthanasia programme, also referred to as Action T4. The killing centre was housed in Hartheim Castle in the municipality of Alkoven, near Linz, Austria. In June 1945, during investigations by US Forces into the former gassing facility at Hartheim, the American investigating officer Charles Dameron broke open"
"Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, Austria. Slave labour was provided by inmates of the brutal KZ Gusen I and Gusen II camps, and by inmates from nearby Mauthausen concentration camp, all located near the St. Gorgen quarries. 40,000 inmates from Spain, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, France, Russia, Hungarian Jews and twenty other nationalities were murdered during the production of these aircraft at KZ Gusen. Messerschmitt officials maintained barracks at the concentration camp to oversee the work being done by the inmates. Messerschmitt, and its executive Willy Messerschmitt also occupied the famed Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic, designed by Mies van"
"and Ulrike Meinhof and Eduard Mörike are mentioned, and the film ends with the fact that the man burns the same woman's body and goes jogging as in the first shot of this film. Other cast members include Martina Adora and Stefanie Müller. To maximize the authenticity, the director was the only one with access to the script during the shooting. The film was shot for a period of three weeks around Eselsburg Valley, near Herbrechtingen, Heidenheim, Ostwürttemberg, and Dornhaldenfriedhof, Degerloch, Filder, Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, and Bogenhausener Friedhof, St. George, Bogenhausen, Bogenhausen, Munich, Upper Bavaria, and Nördlinger Ries, near Nördlingen,"
"his wife on 3 May 1945. He attempted to hide out in his hunting lodge on the Pyhrn mountain in Upper Austria. He was discovered and arrested on 23 May 1945, by an American army unit. He was shot three times in the stomach while trying to escape and brought to a U.S. military hospital set up at the former Gusen concentration camp I where he died shortly after interrogation by a former inmate of Mauthausen, Hans Marsalek. His corpse was later hung on the fence of Gusen I by former prisoners of Gusen. Franz Ziereis Franz Xaver Ziereis (13"
"credited. The musical score was composed by Maurice Jarre. Parts of this western-made film were shot on actual location in Warsaw, which at the time was behind the Iron Curtain because of the Cold War. The last scenes of the film were shot in Munich. The murder of a prostitute in German-occupied Warsaw in 1942 causes Abwehr Major Grau to start an investigation, as she was also a German agent. His evidence soon points to the killer being one of three German generals: General von Seidlitz-Gabler; General Kahlenberge, his chief of staff; or General Tanz. Grau's investigation is cut short"
"Fritz Gerlich Carl Albert Fritz (Michael) Gerlich (15 February 1883 – 30 June 1934) was a German journalist and historian, and one of the main journalistic resistors of Adolf Hitler. He was arrested and later killed at the Dachau concentration camp. Gerlich was born in Stettin, Pomerania, and grew up as the eldest of the three sons of wholesale and retail fishmonger Paul Gerlich and his wife Therese. In Autumn 1889, Gerlich was enrolled in the Marienstiftungymnasium (Our Lady's Grammar School) and graduated from his senior class there in 1901. In 1902 he began his studies at the University of"
"Munich were stopped. Munich main station was evacuated and all trains were cancelled in and out of Munich. Regional and inter-city trains ceased their service to and from the region of the shooting. Deutsche Bahn provided accommodation trains for stranded commuters and tourists where they could seek refuge. These were located at Mammendorf, Starnberg, Geltendorf, Dachau, and Freising. Just before 20.30 CEST, the gunman was located about from the mall. He shot and killed himself in front of two police officers. Nine victims and the perpetrator died in the incident, 16 others were injured, four by gunshots. Three of the"
"for the Teufelsberg (Devil’s Mountain), the largest of the eight huge rubble mountains around Berlin’s perimeter. State curator Hinnerk Schaper intervened, however, and buried most of the statues in the grounds of the nearby Schloss Bellevue, today the official residence of the Federal President of Germany, in the hope that one day, when Germany could be more accepting of monuments to its past, they might resurface. In 1979 they were duly rediscovered and disinterred, and many of the survivors were relocated in Berlin’s first sewage pumping station, which had since its closure in 1972 been restored and installed a museum"
"Schaubühne The Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz is a famous theatre in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin, located on the Kurfürstendamm boulevard. It is a conversion of the ""Universum"" cinema, built according to plans designed by Erich Mendelsohn in 1928. The cinema then was the centrepiece of the wider ""WOGA"" housing complex, designed by Mendelsohn in a New Objectivity styled urban development ensemble, with a shopping walkway, apartment blocks, lawns, and a tennis court in the back. It possibly was the first Modernist cinema built in the world, as opposed to the Moorish, Egyptian and baroque styles that predominated. Mendelsohn wrote"
"in East Prussia, never to return. Silent colour films shot by Eva Braun survived the war and showed Hitler and his guests relaxing at the Berghof. In 2006, computer lip reading software identified several parts of their conversations. Among those identified in the films were Albert Speer, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Reinhard Heydrich and Karl Wolff. Two guests planned to use a visit to the Berghof as an opportunity to assassinate Hitler. On 11 March 1944, Captain Eberhard von Breitenbuch arrived with a concealed pistol with the intention of shooting Hitler in the head, but guards would"
"were arrested. Shortly before the Second World War he (as a UFA director) left for Bad Saarow near Berlin and bought his friend Max Schmeling's house (Zerlett had made the 1935 sports film ""Knockout – Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann"" with Schmeling and his wife Anny Ondra, along with directing the 1936 documentary ""Max Schmelings Sieg – Ein deutscher Sieg""). On 23 January 1946 he was tracked down in Bad Saarow by the Soviet secret service and interned. He died of tuberculosis in 1949 in Soviet Special Camp 2, in the grounds of the former Buchenwald concentration camp. Hans"
"would be necessary first. It is unclear when this will begin and when a new warehouse might open in the building. The US film director Wes Anderson searched for a realistic location for the film ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" and found the Görlitz department store. The entire film team, among others the actress Tilda Swinton and the actors Willem Dafoe and Ralph Fiennes, stayed in neighboring Hotel Börse during the several months of shooting. Görlitz Department Store The Görlitz department store in Görlitz is one of the best preserved department stores from the beginning of the twentieth century. It is"
"captured by Tork's men, but she is rescued by the mechanic/agent. Wounded from the exchange, Tork runs from the cave and out across the ice. The mechanic/agent sets off a powerful bomb that destroys the cave in a massive explosion. The resulting waves move the ice beneath Tork, who falls and drowns in the freezing water. Smilla gazes out over the seemingly endless landscape of ice and snow—the land of her childhood. The film was shot largely in Germany, Denmark, Greenland, and Sweden. Locations include Bavaria Film Studios, Munich, Germany (studio), Copenhagen, Denmark, Hotel D'Angleterre, Copenhagen, Denmark, Ilulissat, Greenland, Kiruna,"
"Babelsberg Studio Babelsberg Film Studio (, ), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world, producing films since 1912. Today it covers an area of about and thus is Europe's second largest film studio after Cinecittà in Rome, Italy. Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's ""Metropolis"" and Josef von Sternberg's ""The Blue Angel"" were filmed there. More recent productions include ""V for Vendetta"", """", ""Æon Flux"", ""The Bourne Ultimatum"", ""Valkyrie"", ""Inglourious Basterds"", ""Cloud Atlas"", ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"", """", and ""Isle of Dogs"". Today, Studio Babelsberg remains operational mainly for feature film productions."
"extermination camps. In a sophisticated propaganda effort, fake shops and cafés were erected to imply that the Jews lived in relative comfort. The guests enjoyed the performance of a children's opera, ""Brundibar"", written by inmate Hans Krása. The hoax was so successful for the Nazis that they went on to make a propaganda film ""Theresienstadt"". Shooting of the film began on 26 February 1944. Directed by Kurt Gerron, it was meant to show how well the Jews lived under the ""benevolent"" protection of the Third Reich. After the shooting, most of the cast, and even the filmmaker himself, were deported"
"artillery near Dornumergrode; and he was captured and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III. He was one of 76 men who took part in the ""Great Escape"" on 25 March 1944; an event memorialised in the 1950 book ""The Great Escape"" and in the 1963 film of the same name. He was soon recaptured, in Stettin. He was one of the 50 escapees murdered by the Gestapo on the orders of Adolf Hitler. He is interred in Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery in his homeland, in a British Commonwealth War Grave, next to others who had escaped with him and who had"
"Günter Hermann Ewen Günter Hermann Ewen (1962 – May 18, 1999) was a German mass murderer who killed four people and wounded at least nine others in Dillingen, Germany on May 16, 1999, before escaping to Sierck-les-Bains, France, where he killed another person, and wounded two more. Hunted by German and French police, he eventually committed suicide in a hotel in Strassen, Luxembourg on May 18. Ewen was born in Dillingen in 1962, being the youngest and only boy among five siblings, and suffered from asthma from childhood. He showed little interest at school, had to repeat two grades and"
"well as the assassination site of Reinhard Heydrich and his grave at Invaliden cemetery, Berlin. Part 3 - Warsaw Ghetto, Gestapo headquarters, Pawiak Prison, Palmiry massacre site, Oskar Schindler's Deutsche Emalia Fabrika, Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Fermont, Immerhof and Hackenberg on the Maginot Line, Compiègne, tomb of Napoleon and the German submarine pens and Cross-Channel guns in Normandy and the Pas-de-Calais. Part 4 - the five D-Day landing beaches, Erwin Rommel's western front headquarters, Wolfsschlucht II, the Wolf's Lair, Malmedy, Bastogne, Remagen bridge, Ordensburg Vogelsang, Bendlerblock, Plötzensee Prison, Gestapo headquarters, Berlin and inside the Reich Chancellery Bunker as it"
"Hengdian World Studios Hengdian World Studios () is a film studio located in Hengdian, a Chinese town in the city of Dongyang, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. It is the largest film studio in the world. The movie studio is operated by the privately owned Hengdian Group founded by Xu Wenrong. Sometimes called ""Chinawood"", Xu turned acres of farmland in central Zhejiang into one of the largest movie studios in Asia. Construction began in the mid-1990s and has been ongoing ever since with the possible recent addition of the replica of the Old Summer Palace. A film about extras working at the"