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13 MINUTES, A Crimefile News Film Review

  Political assassination is a sensitive subject especially for those that believe in their government and support their leaders. Hindsight can make heroes or villains out of those who take the law into their own hands to end evil regimes.   13 Minutes is about an assassin that saw his absolute social responsibility to kill a very popular politician, Adolf Hitler. It was November of 1939 when carpenter and metal worker, Georg Elser , 36 undertook the killing of the most protected man in the world.   Elser had associated with Communists and had joined a workers union.   Elser considered Hitler both a criminal and a Gypsy.   He felt the ambitious dictator was dangerous for humanity. Elser hatched a clever plot to plant a bomb behind the speaker’s platform at the popular Burgerbraukeller Hall where Hitler gave an annual longwinded speech.   Elser was able to sneak into the venue at night spending two months rebuilding a wood and plaster column co...