Hangmen Also Die!
film by Lang [1943]
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"Hangmen Also Die!" is a 1943 American film directed by Fritz Lang. The movie dramatizes the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking Nazi official known as "The Hangman". Heydrich was a key figure in organizing the Holocaust and served as Heinrich Himmler's chief lieutenant in the SS. The film depicts the Czech resistance's plot to kill Heydrich and the subsequent brutal Nazi reprisals. Lang, a German director who emigrated to escape the Nazis, made this film during World War II.123
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