“The Last Blitzkrieg” is a 1959 American war film directed by Arthur Dreifuss. It was filmed at Veluwe and the Cinetone Studios in Amsterdam for a Columbia Pictures release1.
The film is a fictional account of Operation Greif during the Battle of
the Bulge, where German commandos attempted to capture several bridges
on the Meuse while disguised as Allied personnel. The plot revolves
around American prisoners planning an escape from a German
prisoner-of-war camp, unaware that one of their own, German Lt. Hans
von Kroner (known to them as Sgt. Richardson), is spying on them. Von
Kroner is later reassigned to a top-secret project gathering fluent
English-speaking members of the Wehrmacht for an unstated reason. The film features Columbia contract stars Dick York and Kerwin Mathews1.
