Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) (Movie)

format_quote Edward 'Ed' Renard: Funny thing working on a case like this for so long. Something like spending a great deal of time going through a madhouse. You see these Nazis operating here, and you think of all those in Germany, you can't help feeling somehow that they're, well, absolutely insane.

format_quote Dr. Kassell: My congratulations, Kranz. It makes me feel like I'm really in Berlin.
Hintze: We should begin to train them with rifles, revolvers, guns.
Kranz: They are trained.

format_quote Edward 'Ed' Renard: I told you I thought this man is an amateur. If he is, why did he become a spy? Well, because he's been listening to speeches, and reading pamphlets about Nazi Germany and believing them. Unfortunately, there are thousands like him in America. Half-witted, hysterical crackpots who go "Hitler-happy" from overindulgence in propaganda that makes them believe that they're supermen.

stars  Adolf Hitler reportedly planned to execute the makers of this film upon winning the war

stars  This was the first anti-Nazi movie made in Hollywood before the start of World War II.

stars  The movie is based on an actual spy-ring trial in New York in 1938, which convicted four individuals of spying for the German government.