Death is My Trade: Difference between revisions
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[[File:AuseinemdeutschenLeben-Karabiner1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|German soldiers including young Franz (Kai Taschner) and Schrader resting with their carbines next to them.]]
[[File:AuseinemdeutschenLeben-Karabiner1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|German soldiers including young Franz (Kai Taschner) and Schrader resting with their carbines next to them.]]
[[File:AuseinemdeutschenLeben-Karabiner2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Franz holds Schrader at gunpoint. Note the protected front sight.]]
[[File:AuseinemdeutschenLeben-Karabiner2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Franz holds Schrader at gunpoint. Note the protected front sight.]]
[[File:AuseinemdeutschenLeben-Karabiner3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A close-up of a Karabiner eqipped with a S84/98 bayonet held by a ''Freukorps Roßbach'' member in 1919.]]
[[File:AuseinemdeutschenLeben-Karabiner3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A close-up of a Karabiner eqipped with an S84/98 bayonet held by a ''Freikorps Roßbach'' member in 1919.]]
[[File:AuseinemdeutschenLeben-Karabiner4.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A good view of Franz's Kar98k after firing. The white painted swastika on his ''Stahlhelm'' M16 was a sign of a warlike appearance for some ''Freikorps'' paramilitaries.]]
[[File:AuseinemdeutschenLeben-Karabiner4.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A good view of Franz's Kar98k after firing. The white painted swastika on his ''Stahlhelm'' M16 was a sign of a warlike appearance for some ''Freikorps'' paramilitaries.]]
[[File:AuseinemdeutschenLeben-Karabiner5.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A smoking SS guard holds his Karabiner in a courtyard in Auschwitz.]]
[[File:AuseinemdeutschenLeben-Karabiner5.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A smoking SS guard holds his Karabiner in a courtyard in Auschwitz.]]
Death is My Trade is a 1977 German movie written and directed by Theodor Kotulla and starring Götz George. The adaptation of the script is based on the 1952 French novel La mort est mon métier by Robert Merle. Like the novel, the film is based on interrogation transcripts from the trial of Rudolf Höß, SS officer and commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, as well as on his autobiographical notes, which he wrote while in British custody and, after his extradition, in Polish custody in 1946/47 before he was executed as a convicted war criminal. Instead of the name Rudolf Höß, on whose biography the plot is based, the pseudonym Franz Lang is used in the film following an anonymizing intention. The real Rudolf Höß had initially gone into hiding under this name after the Second World War as a supposed boatmate until he was unmasked and arrested in 1946.
The following weapons were used in the film Death is My Trade:
The Karabiner 98k is widely used throughout the movie by German soldiers including Becker (uncredited), Schrader (Peter Franke), and Schmitz (Hermann Günther). Its appearance in 1917 during the First World War is clearly an anachronism, in addition, it is the late WWII variant and in the scenes set from 1941 onwards, it can only be seen from afar being carried by SS soldiers.
