Rare movie footage of Adolf Hitler enjoying a music festival with his right-hand men has been discovered in the basement of a home in the Port Richmond section of Staten Island, according to a published report.The reel of film was plucked from the wartime ruins of a German opera house and sent home by U.S. serviceman Walter Ladziak in 1945. By the time Ladziak returned from the war he forgot about the film. Ladziak is now 85 and still living on Staten Island.
The film shows Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler taking in a Richard Wagner music festival.
It had never been viewed until Ladziak's nephew sent it to PBS' "History Detectives," who have been trying to prove its authenticity. A show on the Hitler film is expected to air Sept. 3.
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