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Mission to Murder Hitler

Jan 12, 2009

0h 51m

★ 6.7

Overview

Documentary, also known as "Mission to Murder Hitler", chronicling Valkyrie, the true story of a German Resistance group attempting to murder Adolf Hitler.

Genres

War

Documentary

History

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Christopher Hatfield

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Peter Becker

Nina Freiin von Lerchenfeld

Julia Brendler

Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Pierre Kiwitt

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

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