One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Boston Wednesday 8 October 1958 on WBZ (Channel 4); it first aired in Seattle Wednesday 1 July 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).
This film represents one of a small handful of American films that featured the word "Hitler" or "Hitler's", and both referencing Adolf Hitler in their titles and were made around the time of the Second World War. These movies include Hitler's Children (1943); Hitler's Madman (1943) aka Hitler's Hangman; Hitler--Dead or Alive (1942); the documentary short, Hitler Lives (1945); The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943); Hitler's Women aka Women in Bondage (1943); the comic short The Devil with Hitler (1942) and Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939).
The movie was never released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Premiered about 3 months before the famous Hitler assassination attempt by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg on the 20th July 1944.
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