Confessions of a Nazi Spy
- Edward G. Robinson Edward Renard
- Francis Lederer: Kurt Schneider
- George Sanders: Franz Schlager
- Paul Lukas: Dr. Karl Kassel
- Henry O'Neill: U.S. Atty. Kellogg
- Dorothy Tree: Hilda Klein Hauer
- Lya Lys: Erika Wolff
- Grace Stafford: Helen Schneider
- James Stephenson: Imperial Agent
- Hedwiga Rich: Lisa Kassel
- Joe Sawyer: Werner Renz
- Sig Ruman: Dr. Julius Krogmann
- Henry Victor: Hans Wild Brandt
- Hans Heinrich von Twardowski: Helldorf
- Wolfgang Zilzer: Johann Westphal
- Rudolph Anders: Capt. Wilhelm Straubel
- Eily Malyon: Mrs. McLaughlin
- Ward Bond: Legionnaire
- Martin Kosleck: Goebbels
- William of Brincken: Captain of oaks
I was a spy for the Nazis ( Original title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy ) is an American film directed by Anatole Litvak from the year 1939 in the film about a Nazi spy ring in the U.S. had a number of German emigrants. .
Action
A living woman in Scotland, the Post receives from around the world gets, to the attention of British intelligence and is revealed to be a member of a Nazi spy network. A letter brings the agents to track down the German -born American Kurt Schneider, who is part of a Nazi spy ring in the U.S. and is planning the kidnapping of an air force general. The FBI Agent Edward J. Renard interrogated Schneider, the man behind the spy ring called him, Franz Schlager. Dr. Karl Kassel, head of the Nazi German, the German -Americans recruited for his Nazi organization, infected with pop under a blanket. Kassel agrees to cooperate with the FBI, but is kidnapped by German agents. But Renard to smash the ring in time succeed.
Background
The film, Warner Bros. was created after the series of articles Storm over America of the ex- FBI agent Leon G. Turrou (1895-1986), which appeared in the New York Post between 5 December 1938 and 4 January 1939, and whose book The Nazi Conspiracy in America. The U.S. premiere was on May 6, 1939 the German premiere took place on 11 March 1977.
Criticism
"Despite exaggerations and clichés facets of Nazi ideology are evident. A propaganda contribution of the American film industry to raise awareness of the policies of the U.S. government. "