![]() ![]() Anna, in turn, has her own plot to kill Hitler, as she blames him for the emotional loss of her children. He then meets with Marbach, and the two plot to kill the real Hitler upon his return to Vienna. After getting his guests drunk, he sneaks back to his old home, where his children, mistaking him for a German officer, tell him about Anna's marriage to Marbach. Later, while Hitler meets with his generals to discuss the Russian campaign, Franz is sent to Vienna to meet with Duchess Eugenie. The two then immediately marry, saving her from further military demands. Marbach comes to her aid, however, stating that they are engaged. When she injures one of the soldiers who is attempting to molest her, Anna is tried in a Nazi court and told by the judge that it is her patriotic duty to have carnal relations with German soldiers. After her neighbor, Frau Reitler, attempts suicide after being raped by German soldiers on furlough, Anna is visited by three soldiers from the war front and ordered to billet them in her home. As months go by, the Huber children, Hansl and Viki, once ostracized by the other school children for their father's "crime," join the Hitler Youth movement and disavow Franz. The Nazi officials then inform Franz that he is to become Hitler's double. When he tries to fight his abductors, he is warned that both he and his family will be executed if he does not cooperate fully. ![]() A few days later, doctors remove Franz's facial bandages, and the Austrian discovers his terrible plight. In the meantime, Franz's wife Anna and Marbach are informed that Franz has been executed as a traitor. Although he is assured of his imminent release, Franz is knocked out and carried to a secret hospital, where doctors perform plastic surgery on him, giving him the facial features of Hitler. ![]() Franz pleads his innocence, then performs an imitation of Von Zechwitz to show his true nature. He is then taken to Gestapo headquarters in Berlin and questioned by Major Mampe and Colonel Von Zechwitz, who inform him that he has been charged with treason. Later, after an evening's entertainment with his family and their friend, Swiss diplomat Herman Marbach, two Gestapo officials enter the Huber home and arrest Franz. In his office one day, minor Viennese city official Franz Huber does an imitation of Adolf Hitler for a co-worker, Graub. ![]()
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