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It was the first explicitly anti- Nazi film to be produced by a major Hollywood studio, [ 2 ] being released in May , four months before the beginning of World War II in Europe, and two and a half years before the United States' official entry into the war. The film stars Edward G. Robinson , Francis Lederer , George Sanders , Paul Lukas , and a large cast of German actors, including some who had emigrated from their country after the rise of Adolf Hitler.

The misconstrued but widely supported opinion that women’s voices could be heard less well than men’s on the radio, especially if programmes were jammed, was one .

Many of the German actors who appeared in the film changed their names for fear of reprisals against relatives still living in Germany. Turrou , recounting his investigation of Nazi spy rings in the United States. Parts of the film are drawn from the Rumrich spy case , the first major international espionage case in American history. A silhouetted narrator connects the film to recent events, beginning in a quiet corner of Scotland in A postman delivers letters from all over the world to a Mrs.

MacLaughlin, who forwards the contents of one envelope to Dr. Karl Kassel in New York City.

Confessions of a Nazi Spy is a American spy political thriller film directed by Anatole Litvak for Warner Bros.

Most are wearing the uniform of the German American Bund. The crowd salutes, "Sieg Heil! Kurt Schneider, an unemployed malcontent, is inspired to become a spy and writes to Hitler's personal newspaper. German Naval Intelligence knows that he is not a double agent because the Americans have no formal counterespionage system.

Franz Schlager, a naval officer sailing to New York on the steamship Bismarck, is ordered to contact Schneider. Meanwhile, beauty operator Hilda Kleinhauer informs on her clients to the Gestapo and carries material for Schlager.