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Connie Vs Adolf
Mar. 5th, 2014 07:27 pmHere’s another Conrad Veidt radio oddity.
This is episode 64 of Treasury Star Parade, a show from 1942 which was designed to encourage listeners to buy War Bonds.
Many of them had Hollywood stars as guests or hosts for big band music, but this one is a little play, in which Connie plays Kurt Schuschnigg, giving Hitler a piece of his mind.
Schuschnigg was the Nazi-opposing Chancellor of Austria from 1934, who had been jailed after the Anschluss, and who, at the time of this play’s recording, was in a concentration camp. (He was liberated by US troops in 1945, and died in 1977.)
Anyway, if you ever wanted to hear Connie slag off Adolf, here you go!
http://www.myoldradio.com/old-radio-episodes/treasury-star-parade-conrad-veidt-ep-64/2
This is episode 64 of Treasury Star Parade, a show from 1942 which was designed to encourage listeners to buy War Bonds.
Many of them had Hollywood stars as guests or hosts for big band music, but this one is a little play, in which Connie plays Kurt Schuschnigg, giving Hitler a piece of his mind.
Schuschnigg was the Nazi-opposing Chancellor of Austria from 1934, who had been jailed after the Anschluss, and who, at the time of this play’s recording, was in a concentration camp. (He was liberated by US troops in 1945, and died in 1977.)
Anyway, if you ever wanted to hear Connie slag off Adolf, here you go!
http://www.myoldradio.com/old-radio-episodes/treasury-star-parade-conrad-veidt-ep-64/2
