Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

original title:
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
other titles:
(Wölfe jagen nie allein)
country / year of production:
USA / 1985
original length:
135 min. , color
premiere:
17 February 1985
genre:
drama
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director:
Jim Goddard
film script:
Lukas Heller
producer:
Jim Goddard
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cast (role):
John Shea (Karl Hoffmann) , Bill Nighy (Helmut Hoffmann) , Lucy Gutteridge (Mitzi Templer ) , David Warner (Reinhard Heydrich) , John Shea , Bill Nighy , Lucy Gutteridge , David Warner
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plot synopsis:
The story of Helmut and Karl Hoffmann. Both come of age at the start of Hitler's power in Germany. Helmut joins the SS and eventually becomes a successful flag rank officer. Karl joins the SA and experiences the darker side of Nazism after the SA is disbanded and Karl is thrown into prison and later conscripted into the German army. Brother is pitted against brother until their relationship, and the Third Reich, stands in ruins
keywords:
internment camps , fascism , family on both sides of the front , battle-fatigue , concentration camps
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Heinz Höhne. Der Orden unter dem Totenkopf – Die Geschichte der SS. München: Orbis-Verl., 2002.

Ronald Smelser. Die SS - Elite unter dem Totenkopf: 30 Lebensläufe. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2003.
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