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Title: Paramount Pictures Corporation photographs
Date (inclusive): 1942-1943
Collection Number: XX256
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
8 manuscript boxes
(3.3 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Materials used in preparation of motion pictures released in 1944, the first titled
Hitler's Gang, depicting the Nazi rise to power in Germany, scenes of party rallies, parades, SS troops, and Adolf Hitler and other Nazi
leaders at various stages of their careers; and the second, titled
The Story of Dr. Wassell, depicting scenes from southeast Asia during World War II.
Creator:
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1975.
[Identification of item], Paramount Pictures Corporation photographs, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Hitler's Gang was written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and directed by John Farrow for Paramount Pictures. Released in 1944,
the film stars Robert Watson as Adolf Hitler, and depicts the Nazi rise to power in Germany, with scenes of party rallies,
parades, SS troops, and Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders at various stages of their careers. As
The New York Times noted in a review on May 8, 1944, "There is little point in considering
The Hitler Gang as entertainment in the accepted cinema sense. As the most complete pictorial documentation we have to date on the birth
and growth of Nazism, it has a place unique, resisting comparison or qualitative judgment. Those of us, and that is practically
all-embracing, who would profit by seeing, close up, the genesis and spread of an ideological virus, would do well to see
The Hitler Gang."
The Story of Dr. Wassell, directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, and Dennis O'Keefe, was released in 1944
by Paramount Pictures. A Technicolor World War II film set in the Dutch East Indies, the film is based on the wartime activities
of U.S. Navy doctor Corydon M. Wassell, which were described by President Roosevelt in a radio broadcast made in April 1942.
Sources: P.P.K., "The Screen: The Hitler Gang, a Picture of Birth and Growth of Nazism, Revealing Activities of Nest of Vipers, at
the Globe,"
The New York Times, May 8, 1944;
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944), Internet Movie Database
Scope and Content of Collection
Collected by the research division of Paramount Pictures, the materials include photographs and a small amount of paper research
material used in preparation for two motion pictures released in 1944, the first titled
Hitler's Gang, depicting the Nazi rise to power in Germany, including scenes of party rallies, parades, SS troops, and Adolf Hitler and
other Nazi leaders at various stages of their careers; and the second, titled
The Story of Dr. Wassell, depicting scenes from southeast Asia during World War II.
The reverse of most photographs includes handwritten notes regarding source or the date the copy was acquired by Paramount
Pictures. The materials remain in their original order by film title.
The original order and titles of the creator have been maintained.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Pictorial works
Motion pictures
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works
National socialism
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Pictorial works
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
Wassell, Corydon McAlmont, 1884-