THE NAZIS. SENSATIONAL OR SENSATIONALIST. POLISH ARTIST / TROUBLEMAKER PIOTR UKLAŃSKI MADE THIS ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY PAGE BOOK OF ACTORS PLAYING GERMAN WW2 (VERY) BAD GUYS IN 1999. IT IS, AND WILL FOREVER BE, ONE HELL OF A BOOK.

Does what it says on the tin. 163 actors playing Nazis. Cover model is Werner Klemperer from Hogan's Heroes, the US sitcom set in the fictional POW camp of Stalag 13. Klemperer played the commandant Colonel Wilhelm Klink.

On the first page, missing an eye and a hand, Robert Duvall as Colonel Max Radl in The Eagle Has Landed. 

Malcolm McDowell in The Passage as the sadistic and psychotic Captain von Berkow. In contrast, Roger Moore played an ex-antiques dealer and 'benign Nazi' in Escape to Athena, more Lovejoy than killjoy. 

Second appearance for the eyeglass (Col. Klink wore one too). Yul Brynner in Triple Cross as intelligence officer Col. Baron von Grunen.

Third appearance for the eyeglass. Max Turilli in The Devil's Brigade. On the right, the poster image of John Steiner in Le Deportate della Sezione Speciale SS, a 1976 Italian Nazi sexploitation film that also starred Lina Polito, Erna Schürer and Sara Sperati, but not as Nazis. There are no female Nazis in the book. For the purposes of this newsletter, credit definitely due to Dyanne Thorne for Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS. 

We are not buying Michael Caine as a Nazi in The Eagle Has Landed. Not in the photo anyway. He looks like he's gone to a party in very misjudged fancy dress (Prince Harry, 2005). In the movie, he plots to kidnap Winston Churchill so it's just as well he doubles as a cockney. 

Rod Perry in The Black Gestapo. No historical accuracy to this LA based exploitation picture. The poster is headlined with the tagline THE NEW MASTER RACE! 

Dirk Bogarde in The Night Porter. Is this is the most controversial film ever made asks the BBC. Bogarde is probably the best actor pictured in this book  -Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man is not included, Christoph Walz in Inglourious Basterds was ten years after the book. Anyway, suffice to say, that Bogarde is so good that his page is genuinely chilling. 

Returning to close with Kelly's Heroes. Karl-Otto Alberty was born in Berlin in 1933. He was a boxer, hence the broken nose. As an actor he racked up a rogues' gallery of Nazis in The Great Escape, Battle of the Bulge, The Damned, The Devil's Brigade and Kelly's Heroes. Just for a point of clarification, he was not a Nazi, none of these actors were, that is the point! 

And the point of this newsletter is that we have two copies of what was always a notorious book and is now very rare too. There are zero other copies available online right now. So it looks like it is just these two. You can buy one of them on the red button below.