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Hitler's Children (1943) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Edward Dmytryk and Irving Reis (uncredited) and produced by Robert Golden.

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Dr. Schmidt: To the boys of Adolf Hitler, this hour can have but one meaning. At this hour when the Earth is closest to the Sun, when it is consecrating itself to the Sun, we have only one thought: we too must be close to our Sun. We too must consecrate our lives to our Sun, and the Sun that shines for us is Adolf Hitler. Attention! You will repeat after me the oath of allegiance to our Fuehrer! "I consecrate my life to Hitler."
[Boys repeat]
Dr. Schmidt: "I am ready to sacrifice my life for Hitler."
[Boys repeat]
Dr. Schmidt: "I am ready to die for Hitler."
[Boys repeat]
Dr. Schmidt: "My Savior, my Fuehrer!"
[Boys repeat]
The Bishop: [to the Nazi Major] No wonder you take away the breath of life so readily. The breath of death is already upon you.
Lieutenant Karl Bruner: What's your name?
Anna Miller: [Haughtily] I don't give it to strangers.
Colonel Henkel: [to Smith] We're building a new Germany, a strong Germany. There is no room for the sick and the weak and the disabled!
Lieutenant Karl Bruner: You're a German. If you'd only give our way of living a chance.
Anna Miller: You can't give evil and rottenes a fair chance.
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Hitler's Children Facts
This movie was studio RKO's second-biggest box-office movie of the 1943 - 1944 financial year, just behind the Cary Grant starrer Mr. Lucky. Overall, some reports state that it is the biggest grossing movie of all time for the RKO Studios, grossing more than even Top Hat and King Kong.
This film represents one of a small handful of American films which featured the word Hitler or Hitler's, and both referencing Adolf Hitler, in their titles and were ones made around the time of the Second World War. These World War II movies include Hitler's Children; Hitler's Madman aka Hitler's Hangman; Hitler--Dead or Alive; The Hitler Gang aka Hitler & co.; the documentary short, Hitler Lives; The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler; Hitler's Women aka Women in Bondage; the comic short, The Devil with Hitler and Hitler - Beast of Berlin.
Edward Dmytryk in his biography 'It's a Hell of a Life But Not a Bad Living', states: "A friend of mine, Irving Reis, had prepared and actually started shooting a film called 'Hitler's Children', an exploitation B. Irving was rather headstrong and somewhat touchy - a bad combination in Hollywood. After a few days, he got into a fight with producer Doc Golden Robert Golden. Getting his back up, he quit the film, expecting, so he told me later, to win a quick apology and a free hand. Instead, the studio said, 'As you wish,' and asked me to take over the direction. He gave me his blessing, asking only that his name be completely removed from the film's credits. The studio was willing and I went to work. I finished on schedule, cut and dubbed it, and turned it over to the distribution department. None of us at the studio was sure of what we had."
Edward Dmytryk would later direct another Second World War propaganda picture for the same RKO studio, that film being Behind the Rising Sun.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onMay 24, 1943 with Bonita Granville, Otto Kruger and Kent Smith reprising their film roles.
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