GB 1556 WL 1282 - Plitt, Henry G (1918-1993)

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GB 1556 WL 1282 nd Collection level 1 file Plitt , Henry G , 1918-1993 , Jewish US Major

Henry G Plitt [1918-1993] was born in New York City, and graduated from Staunton Military Academy, Virginia; Syracuse University and obtained a law degree from Saint Lawrence University. He practised law for a brief period before volunteering for military service.

He was in the first group of 101st Airborne Division soldiers to jump into Normandy on the night before the invasion to set flares marking landing strips for British glider pilots, and is officially credited with being the first American soldier to touch French ground.

After the war he organized a small group of volunteers, pressed several former Waffen SS officers into service and went around southern Germany and Austria looking for high ranking Nazis. According to him he brought in dozens of men but only Streicher and Ley were noteworthy.

Plitt went to work for Paramount Motion Picture Theater Chain, and in the 1960s and 1970s purchased part of Paramount and other theatre chains to become, for a time, chief executive of the largest theatre chain in the US, Plitt Theaters Inc.. He was also very active in charity work, raising large amounts of money for United Cerebral Palsy, Bar-Ilan University and The Friends of Israeli Defence Forces. Having re-joined the US Army reserves in 1962, he died with the rank of Brigadier General.

Frank M. Halpern

Copy of a script for a documentary (which was never produced) about Plitt's capture of Julius Streicher, containing the transcript of an interview with Plitt; various copies of photographs including of Plitt with the captured Robert Ley and Julius Streicher and copy of a New York Times article on the capture of Julius Streicher.

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Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

February 2008 Documentary films Films Humanitarian law Ley , Robert , 1890-1945 , Nazi German Politician Nazism Plitt , Henry G , 1918-1993 , Jewish US Major Political doctrines Streicher , Julius , 1885-1946 , Nazi Publisher Third Reich Totalitarianism War crimes World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events)

Frank M. Halpern

Copy of a script for a documentary (which was never produced) about Plitt's capture of Julius Streicher, containing the transcript of an interview with Plitt; various copies of photographs including of Plitt with the captured Robert Ley and Julius Streicher and copy of a New York Times article on the capture of Julius Streicher.

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Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

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English

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• Engels