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- Three years later, U.S. Army Lieutenant Aldo Raine recruits Jewish-American soldiers to the "Basterds," a black ops commando unit tasked with instilling fear among Nazis in occupied France by killing and scalping them.
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―Aldo Raine
The Basterds were a group of 11 (initially 9) soldiers, 8 Jewish and 3 non-Jewish, whose sole mission was to inflict terror in the Nazi occupied France during WWII. They were lead by Lt. Aldo Raine.
•1st Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Leader)
•Lieutenant Archie Hicox †
•Staff Sergeant Donny Donowitz †
•Technical Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz †
•Corporal Wilhelm Wicki †
•Private First Class Smithson Utivich
The Basterds were assembled by Lt. Aldo Raine in 1944. They went to France and began killing German soldiers and inflicting terror in the Wehrmacht. After losing some of their members, The Basterds manage to kill the entire German High Command at the peak of Operation Kino. At the end, only Aldo and Utivich survived.
•Although the original eight members of the Basterds are supposed to be Jewish, only three actors portraying them are actually Jewish: Eli Roth, B. J. Novak and Samm Levine.
•There was a real unit known as "Masters' Bastards" in WWII. Apart from the obvious rhyming, they earned the name due in part to their fearsome reputation against the Japanese, much like the fictional Raine's Basterds in Europe.
Aug 27, 2019 · Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds tells the story of a special battalion posted in France in charge of sabotaging German military activities and, most importantly, killing Nazis.
Plot. In 1941, Austrian SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa interrogates French dairy farmer Perrier LaPadite about a fugitive Jewish family, the Dreyfuses. Landa boasts about his nickname, "The Jew Hunter," then urges LaPadite to give up the Dreyfuses for the safety of his own family.
Sep 24, 2023 · The Inglourious Basterds true story is partially found in a real military unit. The movie's Basterds consist of various Jewish-American soldiers, led by Brad Pitt's Lt. Aldo Raine. In the story, the Basterds rescue a German man, Hugo Stiglitz (Til Schweiger), who killed 13 Gestapo officers.
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Jun 9, 2021 · X Troop was a secret Jewish commando unit that fought for the British against the Nazis on the front lines of all the major battles of World War II. The commandos were Holocaust survivors from Austria and Germany who came to the UK on Kindertransport.
Aug 16, 2019 · Inglourious Basterds works as fantasy – killing Hitler is on everyone’s list of what to do if you could time travel – but its accomplishment as cinema is even more dazzling.
