[citation needed] Through his older brother, Harnack early learned about humanism through which he came into contact with people who later became members of the Red Orchestra.

He received his doctorate with a dissertation on Karl Bleibtreu[3] in 1936 and the following year, began working at the Nationaltheater Weimar and the state theatre in Altenburg.

Through him, they hoped to build a relationship with the Berlin Resistance members who were involved with Harnack's brother, Arvid,[4] Harro Schulze-Boysen, Hans von Dohnanyi and others.

Ramdohr was engaged to Falk Harnack, which Arvid mentioned in his farewell letter to his family that was written hours before his execution.

[4] In December 1943, he was to be arrested and sent to a Nazi concentration camp,[7] but his superior, Lieutenant Gerhard Fauth, tipped him off and helped him escape.

According to Zweig's son, the movie is based on a true story and may also relate to the events of Altona Bloody Sunday in Hamburg.

One such adviser said that the film had "an undesired and deleterious effect on people in the GDR, as it does not depict hatred of fascism, but rather pity for the murderers".

In addition to entertainment, he also made challenging films, which sometimes dealt with the Nazi era and the Resistance, such as his 1955 release The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (Der 20.

In 1962, he directed for television, Jeder stirbt für sich allein, an adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel, Every Man Dies Alone,[13] based on the story of Otto and Elise Hampel, a working-class couple that became involved in the anti-Nazi Resistance but was later executed.