Hitler Lives

{{short description|1945 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = Hitler Lives | image = Hitler Lives title text.svg | caption = | director = Don Siegel ''(uncredited)'' | producer = Gordon Hollingshead | distributor = Warner Bros. | writer = Saul Elkins | narrator = Knox Manning | editing = DeLeon Anthony | music = William Lava | based_on = ''Your Job in Germany'' (1945 documentary short) | released = {{film date|1945|12|29}} | runtime = 17 minutes | country = United States | language = English }}

'''''Hitler Lives''''', also known as '''''Hitler Lives?''''', is a 1945 American short documentary film directed by Don Siegel, who was uncredited, and written by Saul Elkins. It won an Oscar at the 18th Academy Awards in 1946 for Documentary Short Subject.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300211/Hitler-Lives-/details |title=New York Times: Hitler Lives |access-date=May 26, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520033133/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300211/Hitler-Lives-/details |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Oscars1946">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1946 |title=The 18th Academy Awards (1946) Nominees and Winners |access-date=May 29, 2019|work=oscars.org}}</ref> The film's copyright was renewed in 1973.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/catalogofc19733271213libr/page/46/mode/1up?view=theater | title=Catalog of Copyright Entries 3D Ser Vol 27 PTS 12-13 | year=1973 | publisher=U.S. Govt. Print. Off. }}</ref>

Earlier in 1945, Siegel made his directorial debut on another short film ''Star in the Night'', which also won an Academy Award.

==Production== ''Hitler Lives'' is based on the War Department film ''Your Job in Germany'', which was produced shortly before the end of World War II in Europe. That film was directed by an uncredited Frank Capra, written by Theodor Geisel, later known as Dr. Seuss, and narrated by Dana Andrews; it was only shown to soldiers and was never released to the public.<ref>{{cite web |title=Oscar's Docs, 1941–45: Bravery and Bias |url=http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/4814 |publisher=Museum of Modern Art |access-date=January 1, 2009}}</ref>

While retaining some of the original film footage, ''Hitler Lives'' added both more archival footage and dramatized scenes.<ref>Short, Robert (2022) "Warner Bros.- First National Pictures 1923-1967"</ref> The film warns that the defeated German population still contains Nazi supporters and that the world must stay ever vigilant against the prospect that a new Hitler will arise within Germany. The crematoriums of a concentration camp are shown, only using "victims" to describe those murdered (without mentioning that they were Jewish). Finally, the film warns against fascism in the United States.

==Cast== * Knox Manning as narrator (voice) * Joseph Goebbels as himself ''(archival footage, uncredited)'' * Adolf Hitler as himself ''(archival footage, uncredited)'' * Joseph Stalin as himself ''(archival footage, uncredited)'' * Harry S. Truman as himself ''(archival footage, uncredited)''

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=0037783|title=Hitler Lives}} * {{TCMDb title|id=400470}} * {{Internet Archive short film|id=HitlerLives|name=Hitler Lives (1945)}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hitler Lives}} Category:1945 films Category:1945 American films Category:1945 short documentary films Category:American documentary films Category:Documentary films about Nazi Germany Category:Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners Category:Films directed by Don Siegel Category:Films scored by William Lava Category:Warner Bros. short films Category:American black-and-white films Category:English-language short documentary films Category:1945 English-language films