Screenwriter Eric Roth co-wrote the Oscar-nominated film "Munich", which was based on what real-life event?
b33b152c2c2157c6b0257e5aa4f00bf6
Eric Roth Eric R. Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Forrest Gump" (1994). He also co-wrote the screenplays for several Oscar-nominated films: "The Insider" (1999), "Munich" (2005), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008), and "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" (2012).
0bd64299fe2064688c3ae8fdcc943050
Munich (film) Munich is a 2005 American-Canadian historical drama political thriller film based on Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli government's secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth.
f6b1db7e6a2bc669471c3c1c853f4a83
Seven Days to Noon Seven Days to Noon is a 1950 British drama / thriller film directed by John and Roy Boulting. Based on the book, "Un Nazi en Manhattan", written by Fernando Josseau, Paul Dehn and James Bernard won the Academy Award for Best Story for this film.
e9f0f75dd3fdbc7fe026ef6d67e72ff5
The Infiltrator (1995 film) The Infiltrator is an American film about an Israeli freelance journalist who travels to Germany c. the early 1990s and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction with the intent to bring Nazism back to the forefront in Germany. It is based on the book "In Hitler's Shadow: An Israeli's Journey Inside Germany's Neo-Nazi Movement" by Yaron Svoray and Nick Taylor
1647de52b4f61521a5e92cea3f88efbd
Munich air disaster The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958 when British European Airways flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport, West Germany. On the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes", along with supporters and journalists. Twenty of the 44 on the aircraft died at the scene. The injured, some unconscious, were taken to the Rechts der Isar Hospital in Munich where three more died, resulting in 23 fatalities with 21 survivors.
2587f3930319852f9225650b7df4998f
Altmark Incident The "Altmark" Incident (Norwegian: "Altmark"-affæren; German: "Altmark-Zwischenfall") was a naval incident of World War II between British destroyers and the German tanker "Altmark", which happened on 16-17 February 1940. It took place in what were, at that time, neutral Norwegian waters. On board the "Altmark" there were some 300 allied prisoners (officially internees), whose ships were sunk by the pocket battleship "Graf Spee" in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. British naval forces cornered the tanker and later the destroyer "Cossack" attacked the German ship and freed all the prisoners, killing and injuring eight German seamen with firearms and wounding ten others, five of them seriously. A British and a Norwegian sailor was also seriously wounded in the action. Germany claimed that the attack was a grave violation of international law and of Norwegian neutrality.
7157a7974856ce2223117966dc07c72b
Tony Kushner Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play "". He co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film "Munich", and he wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film "Lincoln". Both movies were critically acclaimed, and he received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. For his work, he received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.
8efcc20f7db5d5fdb8da0c1353a86079
Luttif Afif Luttif Afif (1937 or 1945 – 6 September 1972), "alias" Issa (Jesus in Arabic), was the commander of the group of Palestinian fedayeen, who led the invasion into the Munich Olympic Village on 5 September 1972 and took as hostage nine members of Israel's Olympic team after killing two members who resisted. He was the chief negotiator on behalf of the Palestinians, who were members of the Black September offshoot of Yassir Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. The various pictures of Afif, wearing a white beach hat and a linen safari suit and his face covered with charcoal or shoe polish are some of the iconic images of the 1972 Munich Olympics.
b9547815c3b2a3ad3d38e23f6ed99437
Our America Our America is an award-winning film based on the book "Our America: Life And Death on the South Side of Chicago".
6cd45138286c7fe769a3fe74f0e6ac33
In Nacht und Eis In Nacht und Eis (English: "In Night and Ice"), also called Der Untergang der Titanic ("The Sinking of the "Titanic"") and Shipwrecked in Icebergs in the U.S., is a 1912 German adventure-disaster drama film about the sinking of "Titanic". The filming began during the summer of 1912, and the film premiered that winter.
d019e4db99839afa60eaf7464701340a
Livia Rothkirchen Livia Rothkirchen (1922-2013), historian, author and archivist, made distinct contribution to documenting the Holocaust, specifically issues flowing from Nazi Germany’s peacetime take-over of the democratic Republic of Czechoslovakia. Nearly two years before the outbreak of World War II, Germany seized the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia with the assent of major European states. Germany then dismembered Czechoslovakia, replacing it with German-controlled Bohemia and Moravia, and a nominally independent Slovak state, which collaborated with Nazi policy. In all three areas, harsh regulations were imposed on Jewish citizens, most of whom were ultimately deported and killed. Rothkirchen examines the impact of decisions of Europe's political leaders on general society, on Jewish communal leaders attempting to save their communities, and on Jewish individuals attempting to save themselves and their families from annihilation.
92f6d8b1d23ef6caeac6fd34e08238d4
Gideon Spiro Ralph Gideon-Yaakov Spiro ("he: גדעון ספירו"; born September 1935) is an Israeli journalist and left-wing activist. A survivor of the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom in Berlin, he is a senior campaigner for human rights, prominently involved in public acts against the distribution of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Throughout his career, Spiro has served some notable Israeli newspapers as a columnist and reporter, and is now an independent political blogger.
d3b9690af7a3ebcfcd5f353175a3b88f
Venlo Incident The Venlo Incident was a covert German "Sicherheitsdienst" (SD-Security Service) operation, in the course of which two British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) agents were abducted on the outskirts of the town of Venlo, the Netherlands, on 9 November 1939. The incident was later used by the German Nazi government to link Britain to Georg Elser's failed assassination attempt on German Chancellor Adolf Hitler at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich, Germany, on 8 November 1939 and to help justify Germany's invasion of the Netherlands, while a neutral country, on 10 May 1940.
8a1aac4d10ab7345b269c2f8768d6652
Franz Werfel Franz Viktor Werfel (10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, and "The Song of Bernadette" (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
9398fc35acd8dc21ff4be49de8adc3fe
Joe and Max Joe and Max is a 2002 American-German boxing film directed by Steve James and based on the true story of the two boxing matches between American Joe Louis and German Max Schmeling.
b5847c0b081dd434e620d0474bffd52d
Lesson of Munich In international relations, the Lesson of Munich refers to the appeasement of Adolf Hitler at the Munich Conference in September 1938. In order to avoid war, France and Britain permitted the German annexation of the Sudetenland. The policy of appeasement underestimated Hitler’s ambitions and believed sufficient concessions would secure a lasting peace. Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Germany, and a huge diplomatic triumph for Hitler. The agreement facilitated the German takeover of Czechoslovakia, and caused Hitler to believe the Western allies would not risk war over Poland the following year.
a424a9d24fd670a6a93f14e905b5330b
The Quality of Mercy (film) The Quality of Mercy (original title: "Hasenjagd – Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen") is a dramatization of the events surrounding the Mühlviertler Hasenjagd, a Nazi war crime that took place near Linz, in the Mühlviertel region of Upper Austria, just before the end of the Second World War. The movie's original title translates as "Rabbit chase – for sheer cowardice, there is no mercy", a reference to the name given by the SS to the manhunt for the hundreds of prisoners who managed to escape from Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Nearly 500 tried to escape, over 300 made it to the nearby woods, and of those, a mere 11 managed to survive the three months till the war ended. Most were shot on the spot or beaten to death when they were found, 57 were returned to the camp. The movie attracted 123,000 spectators in Austria, making it the most successful movie of 1995.
eed7c583d983c3ec31c4fe3c244f53b4
The Ultimate Solution The Ultimate Solution is a 1973 alternate history novel by journalist and former "Playboy" interviewer Eric Norden, set in a world where the Axis forces won World War II and partitioned the world between them, and is noted for its particularly grim tone. Norden later wrote the 1977 Adolf Hitler-related science fiction novella "The Primal Solution".
c6f5251dcb66f26bf39e3791c06cbd21
Thrasher incident The Thrasher incident, as it became known in U.S. media, nearly became the start of America's involvement in World War I. On March 28, 1915, the British steamship  was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat "U-28" . In the incident, 104 people were killed, including one American passenger—Leon Chester Thrasher, a 31-year-old mining engineer from Massachusetts.
0b8d807b477cf33075d44a2aa11cc61d
The Victory of Faith Der Sieg des Glaubens (English: The Victory of Faith, Victory of Faith, or Victory of the Faith ) (1933) is the first propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Her film recounts the Fifth Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which occurred in Nuremberg from 30 August to 3 September 1933. The film is of great historic interest because it shows Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm on close and intimate terms, before Röhm was shot on the orders of Hitler during the Night of the Long Knives on 1 July 1934. All known copies of the film were destroyed on Hitler's orders, and it was considered lost until a copy turned up in the 1990s in the United Kingdom.
906495ca61f2ab2e94f573a9c15785da
Max Ferner Max Ferner was a German playwright, born Maximilian Sommer on April 18, 1881. He died in Munich at the age of 59 at the onset of World War II on October 9, 1940.
98779f565c8df9cef4ca04d765129e1d
Olympic Village, Munich The Olympic Village (German: "Olympisches Dorf") was constructed for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany and was used to house the athletes during the games. The infamous Munich massacre took place in one of its apartment blocks, Connollystrasse 31; the street was named for an Irish-American participant in the 1896 Olympics.