Film about Hitler's last day set for Smithsonian Channel debut
PITTSBURGH - American television viewers get their first chance to see and hear Adolf Hitler's inner circle describe the dictator's final hours in filmed interviews when "The Day Hitler Died" premieres on the Smithsonian Channel.
The documentary marks the first time viewers outside Germany will see the filmed interviews by Michael Musmanno, a Navy attorney who presided at one of the Nuremburg war crimes trials and later became a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice.
After the trials, Musmanno spent more than two years tracking down witnesses and re-interviewing them on camera in 1948 to prove Hitler was dead, hoping to thwart rumors spawned when Soviet dictator Josef Stalin claimed Hitler had escaped his underground Berlin bunker.
"The Day Hitler Died" premieres on the Smithsonian Channel on Monday at 8 pm EDT/PDT.
