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...later released and his honor restored when another man, one Richard Schroeder, was found guilty of the crime. In 1947, a German film company took this incident and with the superb acting for which German motion pictures have always been noted, used it in an excellent film, "The Affair Blum," as a focus for the anti-semitism in the German character which Hitler later worked up into the frenzy of Nazism...
...cast in Schroeder's role commits the murder solely for money; there were many unemployed in the Germany of the Twenties. The murdered man happened to be an accountant for Blum (Haas), and the investigator suspects that Blum may have murdered his employee to prevent his disclosing tax evasions. As the investigator questions the actual murderer, he thinks his questions are disclosing Blum as the murderer, but the audience knows that it is actually his prejudice making all the illogical connections as he leads the murderer into building a case against Blum...
...movie ends with Blum freed and returned to his wife. Actually, Dr. Haas and his wife took their lives in 1933, about the time the investigator was being elevated to his Gestapo post...
...soldiers of the capitalist U.S. freed Socialist Blum...
Died. Leon Blum, 77, three-time Premier of France, longtime Socialist Party leader (1924-50), wartime prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp; at his country home near Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS...