High-ranking Nazis and Gene Wilder's "Willie Wonka" flick

[DivinBreuvage]

A very high-ranking Nazi had a cameo role in "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Do you know who this notorious person was, and where he appeared in the film? TRUE STORY!

[No2W2004]

1. Yep, big time Nazi....

The picture held up by the Paraguyan newscaster announcing the finder of the last golden ticket is of Martin Bormann.

[DivinBreuvage]

4. Dang, that was quick! Well done No2W2004!

:toast:

For the rest of you, this may jog your memory:

[benburch]

2. Is this it?

The picture held up by the Paraguyan newscaster announcing the finder of the last golden ticket is of Nazi henchman Martin Bormann.

[alittlelark]

5. S*it, will have to re-watch movie

but not tonight.......Goodnight Moon....

[DivinBreuvage]

7. Goodnight, Irene :) n/t

[DivinBreuvage]

6. Yup, that's him! I thought this would be a stumper, but

you guys knocked it right out of the park!

[alittlelark]

3. I do not, but it was my FAVE movie

Do I really want to know?

My guess would be the assistant (who tried to get the kids to give up the secret of the 'everlasting gob-stopper') - but then, I am clueless and going to bed momentarily......who is it!

[jpgray]

8. I hear they're remaking it with Johnny Depp

Depp has talent, but Gene Wilder he isn't--that's a hard act to follow.

[regnaD kciN]

9. It's not quite the same...

The Johnny Depp/Tim Burton production will be a more-faithful, non-musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's "Charile and the Chocolate Factory," which is a much darker story than the 1971 musical made from it. Supposedly, Dahl hated what the "Willy Wonka..." movie did to his book.

[LynneSin]

16. I'm looking forwad to Tim Burton's version

I can't stand the Gene Wilder version it's so not what the book is about.

I mean it's tough for movies to make faith adaptations but that movie barely came close.

[DivinBreuvage]

10. I agree, I looooove Johnny Depp... but he's got his work cut out for him

if anyone can pull it off, though, it probably would be him.

[Must_B_Free]

11. "Shut Up Hoffstetter, and tell me where is zie ticket!"

[sasquatch]

12. Shouldn't he be in prison?

Or at the bottom of a knuse? BTW I love your handle you crazy cajun:) PS. Do you speak French?

[DivinBreuvage]

17. He's actually DEAD!

He disappeared during the last days of the war and it was long assumed he escaped to some Nazi-friendly South American country like Paraguay or Argentina (which explains the gag in the film). In the late 1980s, however, a construction crew in Berlin uncovered a couple of skeletons and forensic analysis revealed one of them to indeed be Martin Bormann. He had either been shot, had shot himself, or had taken poison as the Soviets closed in (I can't remember what the cause of death was or if they had even been able to tell).

It's one of the weirdest things to me to think that while there was all this mystery about him and doubtless some intensive efforts to find him (at least for a while) his bones were lying there mouldering only a short distance from the Führer bunker.

Thanks for the nice words too! :) I do speak French, though I'm not a Cajun (my father is French from France). I chose the fleur-de-lys because it was the symbol of the French monarchy (and by extension France, something like the lion was sometimes used as a symbol for England because of its association with their royal family, who were really just French transplants until they became German transplants... the parvenus).

If I had been in France though, I would have been a bloody-minded Jacobine!

[sasquatch]

18. NAPOLEON!!!!!!!

HAIL THE EMPORER OF THE FRENCH;)

[AntiCoup2K4]

13. Thank God! For a minute there I was worried that the Oompa Loompas......

...might have been midget brownshirts :scared:

[Skittles]

14. that movie positively gives me the creeps

it must make a difference if you first see it as an adult

[the Kelly Gang]

15. hated Willie Wonka but love Gene Wilder