Word: haase
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For Haas was a Jew, and the case against him rested more on the emotion of prejudice than the reason of evidence. The motion picture does not have to deviate in the least from the actual case in showing how Haas suffered for a crime he had not committed, just...
The man 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...
The inspector who finally was called in by a friend of Haas to break the case and clear the falsely accused man, advised the Deustches Film Company in producing the movie. His film counterpart solves the case "by just doing what was obvious"--that is, going to the evidence and...
The investigator in real life was disciplined, as was the judge who helped frame Haas, when the true murderer confessed. But Hitler sought him out upon coming to power and honored him for his part in the Haas case by making him a Gestapo official. After hiding under an assumed...
The 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.