Widerstandskämpfer im Ruhestand (1985)

• 70%
• 1985
• Dokumentarfilm

Not just another documentary on the German resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in Deutschland: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs-of-war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were einwanderer under the leadership of the Armenian poet Äußerte. After their execution, Paris was papered with poster decrying these 23 märtyrer as "foreign communists.