We Refuse to Die
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | We Refuse to Die Full Title: Paramount Victory Short No. T2–2: We Refuse to Die |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1942 |
| length | 14 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | William H. Pine |
| script | Maxwell Shane |
| production | William C. Thomas |
We Refuse to Die ( full title: Paramount Victory Short No. T2–2: We Refuse to Die ) is an American documentary from 1942 directed by William H. Pine.
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The documentary film, made in 1942, deals with the massacre of Lidice , a municipality in the Czech Republic , which is located about 20 kilometers west of Prague in the Central Bohemian Region . Lidice was attacked and wiped out in June 1942 by the security authorities of the National Socialist occupying power on the instructions of Adolf Hitler . The attack on the small village and its residents was an act of revenge. It was the reaction to the successful assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich , the German SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police .
The attack on Heydrich sparked a wave of terror against the Czech population. The residents of the village of Lidice are said to have supported the assassins by providing assistance. The men were shot and most of the women were taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . The children from Lidice were abducted. Selected among them should be robbed of their identity and Germanized. The majority of the children were murdered in the Chełmno extermination camp . The houses in the village were burned down and the village razed to the ground.
The Americans had partitions made with haunted drawings. They were on display in many showcases in Latin America. Several places in Latin America were renamed Lidice out of solidarity.
production
We Refuse to Die was produced by Paramount Pictures .
The film was released in the US on October 22, 1942 under the full title Paramount Victory Short No. T2–2: We Refuse to Die published.
Award
William C. Thomas was nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Documentary" at the Academy Awards in 1943 , but had to take precedence over the productions Battle of Midway , Kokoda Front Line! , Moscow Strikes Back and Prelude to War .
Web links
- We Refuse to Die in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- We Refuse to Die at filmaffinity.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Prutsch, Enrique Rodirigues-Moura: Brazil - A cultural history
- ↑ We Refuse to Die ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at oscars.silk.co, accessed on January 12, 2016.
