I was a Nazi spy

Movie
German title	I was a Nazi spy
Original title	Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1939
length	104 minutes
Rod
Director	Anatole Litvak
script	Milton Crime John Wexley
production	Hal B. Wallis Jack L. Warner Robert Lord
music	Max Steiner
camera	Sol Polito Ernest Haller
cut	Owen Marks
occupation
Edward G. Robinson : Edward Renard Francis Lederer : Kurt Schneider George Sanders : Franz Schlager Paul Lukas : Dr. Karl Kassel Henry O'Neill : US Atty. Kellogg Dorothy Tree : Hilda Kleinhauer Lya Lys : Erika Wolff Grace Stafford : Helen Schneider James Stephenson : British agent Hedwiga Reicher : Lisa Kassel Joe Sawyer : Werner Renz Sig Ruman : Dr. Julius Krogmann Henry Victor : Hans Wildebrandt Hans Heinrich von Twardowski : Helldorf Lionel Royce : Hinze Wolfgang Zilzer : Johann Westphal Rudolph Anders : Capt. Wilhelm Straubel Eily Malyon : Mrs. MacLaughlin Ward Bond : Legionnaire Martin Kosleck : Goebbels William von Brincken : Captain von Eichen

I was a spy of the Nazis (original title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy ) is an American film by Anatole Litvak from 1939. Numerous German emigrants took part in the film about a National Socialist spy ring in the USA .

action

A woman living in Scotland who receives mail from all over the world comes under the spotlight of the British secret service and is exposed as a member of a Nazi spy network. A letter puts the agents on the trail of the German-born American Kurt Schneider, who belongs to a Nazi spy ring in the USA and is planning to kidnap an Air Force general. FBI agent Edward J. Renard interrogates Schneider, who tells him the man behind the spy ring: Franz Schlager. Dr. Karl Kassel, head of the Nazi Association , who recruits Americans of German origin for his Nazi organization, is in league with Schlager. Kassel agrees to work with the FBI, but is kidnapped by German agents. But Renard manages to break the ring in time.

background

The Warner Bros. film was based on the series of articles by ex- FBI agent Leon G. Turrou (1895–1986), Storm over America , which appeared in the New York Post between December 5, 1938 and January 4, 1939, and his book The Nazi Conspiracy in America . The US premiere was on May 6, 1939, the German premiere took place on March 11, 1977.

criticism

“Despite overdrawing and clichés, facets of the National Socialist ideology are illuminated. A propaganda contribution by the American film industry to sensitize the population to the politics of the US government. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

• 1939: National Board of Review Award for best film

literature

• Leon G. Turrou, David G. Wittels: Nazi Spies in America. New York: Random House, 1938, 1939.

Web links

• Confessions of a Nazi Spy in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ I was a Nazi spy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .