The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hybrid composition, it alternates originals and reconstructions performed by actors (docudrama). A not-so-subtle condemnation of Hitler, Nazism and Germany by the movie's French film makers, which conveniently makes no mention of how the policies of Great Britain and France created Hitler and allowed him to go as far as he did prior to the beginning of the Second World War.
Cast
Roger Karl
Le colonel
Line Noro
Frieda
Alexandre Mihalesco
le tailleur
Jean Heuzé
le capitaine autrichien
Sandra Milovanoff
Madame Schleicher
André Valmy
Ernst
Nicolas Amato
le sous-lieutenant
Simone Bourday
Unknown
Georges Fronval
Adolf Hitler
Dalmaïs
Engelbert Dollfuss
Alain Cuny
Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Pierre Labry
Ernst Roehm
Jacques Henley
General Kurt von Schleicher
Albert Monys
Adolf Hitler jeune
Fernand Bellan
Unknown
Marfa d'Hervilly
Unknown
Guy Denancy
Unknown
Philippe Hersent
Unknown
Jacqueline Noëlle
Unknown
Ketty Pierson
Unknown
Janine Viénot
Unknown