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Kurt Gerron ( May 11, 1897 – October 28, 1944 ) was a Jewish actor and film director during the Nazi period.

Born Kurt Gerson to Jewish parents in Berlin, Germany he studied medicine but became a stage actor in 1920. He appeared in such films as The Blue Angel opposite Marlene Dietrich.

He was offered a trip to Hollywood but refused and stayed behind in Europe. He left Germany and went first to France and later to the Netherlands. After the German army occupied the Netherlands, he was interned in the transit camp at Westerbork before being sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp. There he ran a cabaret called the Karussel to entertain the inmates. He was subsequently blackmailed by the National Socialists to make a propaganda film showing how 'nice' concentration camps were (Title "Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt" - The Fuehrer gives a city to the Jews). After the film was completed, he was sent to Auschwitz near the end of the war, where he was gassed.

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