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Here's the basic plot outline: Wife is married to wealthy husband. She has a lover and both want to get rid of the husband and get his money. But they want to avoid the prenup agreement between the husband and wife. So divorce is out. Logical solution: murder the husband. But they're afraid to do so since the obvious beneficiaries, and therefore prime suspects, of the husband's murder would be the wife and her lover. So they concoct a scheme whereby they murder someone with whom the husband has an ongoing serious business dispute and frame the husband of that murder. But what's missing in all of this is how the plot, even if successfully executed, would enable the wife and her lover to achieve their goal, i.e., get the husband's wealth. Because even if the husband is convicted of first degree murder, his wealth does not thereby transfer to the wife . He can dispose of it in lots of ways, e.g., hire the best possible legal defense team both for trial and post conviction legal challenges. give his money to his favorite charities, relatives, etc. Of course they can hope that the husband will simply let his wife have all or most of his wealth while he lives out his life sentence (which may not be his life if he will be eligible for parole) and even in the very unlikely event he is sentenced to death, he will almost certainly spend the greatest part of his remaining life awaiting execution, during which he can find those many ways of disposing of his wealth that do not include giving it to his wife. So, the basic plot amounts to committing murder on spec. Only two too dumb murderers would do that.

Portraying Hitler as being in a virtually perpetually hysterical state, as this film does, is contrary to any historical reality. There are two interesting omissions in it. First, there is no mention, as far as I could ascertain, of what appears to have been Hitler's central obsession, his hatred of Jews, for the destruction of whom he devoted substantial resources which could have been used to further another of his obsessions, world conquest. Second, in the brief portrayal of the conquest of Poland, the film depicts the blackening of the entirety of a map of Poland to represent the Nazi conquest. However, the Nazis did not occupy all of Poland; they split Poland with their then ally, the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin, with whom they had entered into an agreement beforehand to divide Poland between them, and pursuant to which the Soviets invaded and occupied the eastern half of Poland. Surely the producers of this film were aware of this fact, so why did did they omit it?