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1951? A lilliput/striscia format series with art by Francisco Darnis. Krüger, who lived in California, saw that his commitment against right-wing extremism hadn't lost any of its urgency over the last years of his life.Spanish Language Books 2 Americanos en Europaĭos americanos en Europa 24 - Feliz regreso | Uploaded: Aug 6, 2014Īdventure | Crime | Spy/Espionage | Detective Fight against old and new Nazisįor decades, Krüger used the fact that he was a celebrity as well as his resources to fight "every old Nazi and every new Nazi," a fight that was to go on until he was almost 90 years old, visiting schools and giving lectures as well as cooperating with an initiative against far-right violence in 2014. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer scolded this "young German who wants to instruct the German government from England" - but he couldn't silence Hardy Krüger. Scram!" Breakthrough with 'The One that Got Away'īritish filmmakers weren't interested in Krüger either - until he played a German air force officer captured during the Battle of Britain who managed to escape repeatedly from captivity in the 1957 film "The One that Got Away." The premiere of the film marked the beginning of Hardy Krüger's international film career.Ī year later, Krüger was an internationally acclaimed actor living in Britain. That same year, a synagogue in the western German city of Cologne was smeared with swastikas. Horrified, the actor addressed his fellow Germans in an article in Britain's Daily Mail, saying he could not understand why former Nazis were allowed to work as teachers while the communist party was banned. But he hit brick walls when he went to Paris in 1954, where he was told: "We had Germans like you galore, hundreds of thousands of them in gray uniforms. They dropped the issue after he changed his first name from Eberhard to Hardy.Īt that point in his life, Krüger knew he wanted a career in acting, though not in German film, which he felt to be too shallow. The Soviet Union, where Krüger's father had died in a camp, demanded the extradition of the Nazi's son. In the northern German port city, he worked as an extra at the Schauspielhaus theater, and as a news reader for British-controlled Radio Hamburg - a job he landed because the man, a British Jew, who interviewed him for the job was adamant he preferred "mercy before justice." Hardy Krüger starring in 'Faust' with Gustaf Gründgens as Mephisto in 1963 Why Eberhard became Hardy He made his way back to Berlin and in 1945, he arrived in Hamburg. He was captured by the Americans, who let him go, fell into the hands of Soviet soldiers shortly afterward but managed to escape. Instead, he was deployed as a messenger, and promptly deserted during a mission in the Alps. As such, he refused to shoot at US soldiers, and was sentenced to death by firing squad for "cowardice in the face of the enemy." But the SS officer designated to carry out the sentence refused to shoot him - perhaps because at 16, he looked like a child, Krüger later speculated. With the "Nibelungen" SS division, Krüger was ordered to the front in early 1945. By then, he had lost all faith in the regime and the possibility of a victory. In 1943, Krüger played a minor role in the Nazi propaganda film "Young Eagles." During the filming, Krüger overheard an older actor say a comment about Hitler that would change his life: "Your demigod, that Austrian painter, is a criminal." Krüger then discovered what was happening in camps like Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. Time and again, Krüger said he was raised by his parents and teachers to be a Nazi. When he was 13, he was accepted as a student into the Ordensburg Sonthofen, a Nazi educational institution designed to shape the regime's future elite. A bust of Hitler stood on the family piano. His father, an engineer, was a fan of Adolf Hitler and an early member of the Nazi Party. "A person cannot usually be that lucky," he mused.Įberhard August Franz Ewald Krüger was born in the Berlin district of Wedding on April 12, 1928, during the era of the Great Depression. The retired film star referred to the fact that he had survived front line operations in World War II, bombings, and had escaped a death sentence and firing squad. "I grew up with death, I got used to it," Hardy Krüger said in a 2018 interview with German press agency dpa just before his 90th birthday, when asked if he was afraid of death.