Word: haase
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In September, 1926, a wealthy industrialist named Rudolf Haas was arrested in Magdeburg, Germany, charged with murder. He was 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...
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...
By World War II's end, demand was so great that Haas, who already had four factories, built four more. Since it is-privately owned, the company never reports its gross or net. It has an annual payroll of $5,000,000; sales last year mounted to 6,000...