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Harry Giese

Harry Giese

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This article is about the German actor. For the Australian public servant, see Harry C. Giese.

Harry Giese (2 March 1903 – 20 January 1991) was a German theatre and voice actor born in Magdeburg, Province of Saxony.[1] He is best known for providing voiceovers on German newsreels during the Second World War especially Die Deutsche Wochenschau which was shown weekly in cinemas. The newsreel presented the latest news from war time fronts using film from cameramen working with the Wehrmacht. Giese provided the voice-overs for Ufa Tonwoche and Die Deutsche Wochenschau from October 1939 to the end of the Second World War.[2]

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

During the war Harry Giese was known as the "Großdeutscher Sprecher", or "Greater German Spokesperson".[3]

The Eternal Jew

He was the narrator of the anti-Semitic propaganda film The Eternal Jew (1940).[4] The documentary was a product of the Ministry of Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels, who committed suicide in the bunker under the Reich Chancellery on 1 May 1945, shortly after the suicide of Adolf Hitler.

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  1. [1]
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2233358/ IMDb [user-generated source]
  2. [2]
    Fuhrmann, Hans-Peter (2008). Fussball zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. W. Kohlhammer Verlag. p. 304. ISBN 9783170201033. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  3. [3]
    Postert, André (1 March 2021). "Wie Opa Franz ins Kino kam". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  4. [4]
    http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/derewigejude.doc


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