Willy Fritsch
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Willy Fritsch was a German theatre and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s.
Willy Fritsch photographed by Alexander Binder, 1920s. Collection EYE Film Institute Netherlands.
Willy Fritsch photographed by Alexander Binder, 1920s. Collection EYE Film Institute Netherlands.
Gottbegnadeten list
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The Gottbegnadeten-Liste was a 36-page list of artists considered crucial to National Socialist culture. The list was assembled in September 1944 by Joseph Goebbels, the head of the Ministry of Public
Willy Fritsch
…avoided getting involved in Nazi propaganda, other than his appearance in the 1944 aviator movie Junge Adler which earned him an entry on Goebbels' Gottbegnadeten list. Starring in Austrian originated comedies such as Vienna Blood (1942) directed by Willi Forst or A Salzburg Comedy (1943) written by Erich Kästner, he…
Friedrich Kayßler, one of the "irreplaceable actors" on the list
Sculptor Arno Breker
Actor Heinrich Schroth
Writer Hans Grimm