Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Hitler's Children (1943)

Hitler's Children - (Original Trailer)

A German-American girl is forced to enter a Hitler youth program in Hitler's Children (1943), directed by Edward Dmytryk.

Hitler's Children (1943) -- (Movie Clip) It Is Our Birthright To Rule

Polemics in 1933 Germany, as Schmidt (Erford Gage) teaches his proto-Nazi pupils, Tim Holt his distracted star student, and Kent Smith as teacher “Nicky” Nichols, Anna (Bonita Granville) his standout at the neighboring “American Colony” school, in the surprise hit RKO propaganda vehicle Hitler’s Children, 1943.

Hitler's Children (1943) -- (Movie Clip) German Blood Runs Deep

American teacher Nichols (Kent Smith) is trying to find his German-born American assistant in 1939 Germany, arrested by the Nazis, encountering Hans Conreid, Otto Kruger as a smarmy Colonel, and Tim Holt as his former friend, now a top functionary, in Edward Dmytryk’s Hitler’s Children, 1943.

Hitler's Children (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Die For Hitler

Chilling and artfully composed opening (the German fascist speaker is not credited) from director Edward Dmytryk’s Hitler’s Children, 1943, leading to Kent Smith’s narration, playing a character loosely based on the American author of the underlying novel, Gregor Ziemer, co-stars Bonita Granville and Tim Holt briefly introduced.

Hitler's Children (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Let Freedom Ring

Leaping forward to 1939 Germany, Kent Smith narrating as “Nicky,” teacher at the American ex-pat school, has noted Memorial Day, and his top student, German-born Anna (Bonita Granville), now his assistant, arrested then meeting her former playmate Karl (Tim Holt), in Edward Dmytryk’s Hitler’s Children, 1943.