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| 1 | His most notorious film was Jud Süß (1940), which was made for anti-Semitic propaganda purposes in Germany and Austria. In 1943 it received UFA's highest awards. |
| 2 | Susanne Körber, one of his daughters from his second wife Hilde Körber, converted to Judaism and married the son of Holocaust victims. She committed suicide in 1989. |
| 3 | Veit Harlan's son Thomas (1929-2010), an author and film director, created a semi-documentary film called Wundkanal (Wound Passage), in which his father, played by a convicted mass murderer, is forced to undergo a series of brutal interrogations into his war crimes. |
| 4 | In 1935 he stopped acting and became a director. |
| 5 | After the war Veit Harlan was exposed to a vehement critic because of his propaganda movies, a petition for denazification remained unfinished. It followed two trials because of "crime against humanity", but Veit Harlan acquitted in both cases. |
| 6 | Veit Harlan, who was a professed National Socialist since 1933, recommended himself to the propaganda ministry with his movie "Der Herrscher" (1937). |
| 7 | The actor and director Veit Harlan was and has been a very controversial person, not so much because of his movies as an actor but his movies as a director he created during World War II. They often had clear propagandist contents. |
| 8 | Film critic David Thomson asserts that Harlan, having just started directing in 1935, was only able to attract Goebbels' attention because so much directorial talent had emigrated from Germany after the Nazis had taken power. |
| 9 | In 1949, Harlan was charged with crimes against humanity for his role as director of Jud Süß. The Hamburg Criminal Chamber of the Regional Court (Schwurgericht) acquitted Harlan of the charges; however, the court of the British occupation zone nullified the acquittal. |
| 10 | In the sound film era he impersonated normally bigger support roles but he wasn't an actor star in the true sense of the word. |
| 11 | Karsten Witte, the film critic, provided a fitting appellation for Harlan calling him "the baroque fascist". Harlan made the Reich's loudest, most colorful and expensive films. |
| 12 | After the war Harlan was charged with participating in the anti-Semitic movement and aiding the Nazis. But he successfully defended himself by arguing that the Nazis controlled his work and that he should not be held personally responsible for its content. |
| 13 | In 1951, Harlan sued for an injunction against Hamburg politician Erich Lüth for publicly calling for a boycott of Unsterbliche Geliebte (Immortal Beloved). The District Court in Hamburg granted Harlan's suit and ordered that Lüth forbear from making such public appeals. However, the lower court decision was ultimately overturned in 1958 by the Federal Constitutional Court because it infringed on Lüth's right to freedom of expression. This was a landmark decision because it clarified the importance of the constitutional civil rights in disputes between individuals. |
| 14 | By 1937, Joseph Goebbels had appointed Harlan as one of his leading propaganda directors. |
| 15 | In 1958, Veit Harlan's niece, Christiane Susanne Harlan, married filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, who was Jewish. She is credited by her stage name "Susanne Christian" in Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957). They remained married until Stanley Kubrick's death in 1999. |
| 16 | His son Thomas Harlan became a director, his daughter Maria Körber an actress. |
| 17 | Thomas Harlan's final publication, issued posthumously, Veit, was a memoir in the form of a letter to his father, continuing the investigation into Veit Harlan's complicity in the Nazi regime. |
| 18 | Veit Harlan found out his interest into the acting in his school time and he began as an extra at the "Deutsches Theater". At the beginning of the 20's he got bigger parts at the theater and soon became established as an actor. |
| 19 | Today Veit Harlan is connected to his propaganda movies he made during World War II by the majority but this would be a one-dimensional view of his work. |
| 20 | The documentary Harlan - In the Shadow of Jew Süss (2008) by Felix Moeller explores Harlan's motivations and the post-war reaction of his children and grandchildren to his notoriety. |
| 21 | His first wife, Dora Gerson, was Jewish and was killed in Auschwitz in 1943. |
| 22 | Claimed the Nazis forced him to shoot propaganda movies such as Jud Süß (1940), although many former crew members and colleagues contradicted him. |
| 23 | Died during holiday on the Italian island of Capri. |
| 24 | After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on stage in 1915. |
| 25 | Father of Thomas Harlan. |
| 26 | After Adolf Hitler came to power, Harlan--unlike many German film directors--stayed in Germany. He embraced the new Nazi regime and directed several pro-Nazi propaganda films for the new government, with his wife Kristina Söderbaum in the main parts. Considered to be the worst of these was the universally reviled Jud Süß (1940), a virulent anti-Semitic propaganda piece masquerading as a period piece melodrama. After the war Harlan was charged with crimes against humanity because of this film, but in 1950, after several court trials, was let go. |
| 27 | Uncle of Christiane Kubrick and Jan Harlan. |
| 28 | He became Catholic two months before his death. |
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