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Looking like the very picture of a sly Nazi agent, German-born character actor Frederick Giermann plied his insidious trade in scores of Hollywood pictures during World War II. He played the escaped Nazi spy Kurz in British Intelligence (1940), the inventor of a device that can alter a phonographic record in the action serial Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943), and Heinrich Himmler, the head of the feared SS, in the speculative The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943). Giermann could also be the victim of German atrocities, as in the-then incendiary Beasts of Berlin (1939), in which he was Father Pommer, one of the decent citizens attempting to overthrow the demonic regime. Like so many of his compatriots, Giermann's screen career waned in the post-war era.