Watch Hitler's Children (1943) Free Online

Release Date: 1943

Cast: Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Tim Holt

Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Propaganda, Black-and-white

Hitler's Children is a 1943 American black-and-white propaganda film made by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk and Irving Reis from an adaptation by Emmet Lavery of Gregor Ziemer's book Education For Death. The film stars Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, and Kent Smith. One of the most financially successful films of RKO Studios, the film is also known for its brutal, graphic overview of the Hitler Youth, and of two people indoctrinated into it. In 1933 Berlin, Professor Nichols (Smith) runs the American Colony School, which is next door to the Horst Wessel School, where... MORE

Hitler's Children is a 1943 American black-and-white propaganda film made by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk and Irving Reis from an adaptation by Emmet Lavery of Gregor Ziemer's book Education For Death. The film stars Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, and Kent Smith. One of the most financially successful films of RKO Studios, the film is also known for its brutal, graphic overview of the Hitler Youth, and of two people indoctrinated into it. In 1933 Berlin, Professor Nichols (Smith) runs the American Colony School, which is next door to the Horst Wessel School, where young Germans are indoctrinated in Nazism. During a brawl between the student bodies, American-born German Karl Bruner (Holt) objects when German-born American Anna Muller (Granville) smacks him on the rear with her baseball bat. Despite their awkward introduction, he is attracted to the feisty girl. She is an American citizen, but her parents sent her to be educated in their former homeland. Soon, Karl, Anna and Professor Nichols are good friends, though they do not see eye to eye politically. After a while though, they lose touch with each other. Six years later, as war looms in Europe, Karl, now a LESS