Bruno Kitt

Bruno Kitt (9 August 1906 in Heilsberg in East Prussia – 8 October 1946 in Hamelin) was a German physician and SS officer. He worked in Auschwitz and Neuengamme as a concentration camp doctor.

Biography

Kitt was the son of a teacher. After his Abitur, he began the study of natural sciences, then graduated and studied medicine at the University of Münster and received his MD PhD. After the Machtergreifung, he joined the NSDAP in May 1933 and soon thereafter the SS (SS-Nr. 246,756). After graduation, he found a job as an assistant and later as a senior medical officer.

During the Second World War, he was drafted in March 1942 into the Waffen-SS, and graduated from basic training at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. From June 1942 he was a camp doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp. Among other things, he served in Auschwitz II (Birkenau) as a chief physician of the women's prisoner hospital. In this function, he also selected the sick female prisoners to be gassed. He had to be treated in the hospital because he contracted typhus. At times he was a camp doctor in Monowitz concentration camp (Auschwitz III). The Auschwitz survivor Hermann Langbein describes Kitt as a very intelligent and sometimes even accessible camp doctor, who was not a fanatical Nazi. Kitt had once asked his superior Eduard Wirths to be replaced as a camp doctor so that he did not have to partake in selections. Wirths briefly entrusted Kitt with the duties of a military doctor, but Kitt was not absolved of selections of incoming transports of prisoners. In mid-September 1943, Kitt received the War Merit Cross, 2nd Class with Swords and was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer. In July 1944, Kitt married Cläre Maus. Maus had been working as a laboratory assistant in Auschwitz concentration camp. The couple had a son.

KITT

KITT is the short name of two fictional characters from the adventure TV series Knight Rider. While having the same acronym, the KITTs are two different entities: one known as the Knight Industries Two Thousand, which appeared in the original TV series Knight Rider, and the other as the Knight Industries Three Thousand, which appeared first in the two-hour 2008 pilot film for a new Knight Rider TV series and then the new series itself. In both instances, KITT is an artificially intelligent electronic computer module in the body of a highly advanced, very mobile, robotic automobile: the original KITT as a 1982 Pontiac Trans Am, and the second KITT as a 2008/2009 Ford Shelby GT500KR. KITT was voiced by William Daniels in the original series, and by Val Kilmer in the 2008 series.

History

In the television show's history, the first KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) was designed by the late Wilton Knight, a brilliant but eccentric billionaire and founder of the Foundation for Law And Government (FLAG) and its parent Knight Industries. The 2008 pilot movie later implied that Charles Graiman, creator of the Knight Industries Three Thousand, also had a hand in designing the first KITT.

Martin Baldwin Kittel

Martin Baldwin Kittel (6 January 1796/7/8 - 1885) known as Martin Balduin, and Baldwin Martin, was born in Aschaffenburg on the 6 January, the year given variously as 1796/7/8, in "humble circumstances". He passed his baccalaureate in 1816, and enrolled to study philosophy at the University of Würzburg. He was made a Doctor of Medicine in Munich in 1822, although he never practiced as a doctor. Three years later, he travelled to Paris to study science, and in 1831 was appointed professor at the Lyceum Aschaffenburger, where he remained until his retirement in 1873. A man of great industry, he also applied himself to the study of botany, geology, local history, and art history.

He married Hulda Wilhelmine Leske (1819-1842); they had one child, a daughter, Petra Katharina. A man noted for his humility, Kittel died on 24 July 1885, and was buried in the old town cemetery in Aschaffenburg.

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KITT (FM)

KITT (100.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format. Licensed to Soda Springs, Idaho, USA. The station is currently owned by Ted Austin, through licensee Jackson Hole Media LLC, and features programming from AP Radio and Jones Radio Network.

History

The station was assigned the call letters KFIS 1981-02-23. On 2001-09-01, the station changed its call sign to KFIF and on 2004-08-03 to the current KITT.

In June 2008, The FCC granted KITT-FM permission to upgrade from a Class A station to a Class C2 station, increase its power to 11,000 watts, and relocate the station to Wilson, WY. (serving Jackson Hole). The move was part of a complex proceeding (FCC Rule & Order 05-243 in which 42 stations in a five state area were affected. Following this proceeding, the FCC changed its rules to allow no more than four stations in a single change. At this time, KITT-FM remains in Soda Springs ID awaiting modifications by other stations in FCC rulemaking (05-243).

On May 29, 2009, the Fifth District Court in Washington County, UT appointed a receiver for US Capital, Incorporated, an investment company in Boulder, CO that foreclosed on Legecy Media, the owner of KITT and several other stations.

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Brüno

Brüno is a 2009 American mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles and starring Sacha Baron Cohen, who produced, co-wrote, and played the gay Austrian fashion journalist Brüno. It is the third film based on one of Cohen's characters from Da Ali G Show; the first were Ali G Indahouse and Borat.

Plot

Gay Austrian fashion reporter Brüno Gehard is fired from his own television show, Funkyzeit mit Brüno (Funkytime with Brüno) after disrupting a Milan Fashion week catwalk (whose audience included Paul McCartney), and his lover Diesel leaves him for another man. Accompanied by his assistant's assistant, Lutz, he travels to the United States to become "the biggest gay Austrian celebrity since Hitler".

Brüno unsuccessfully attempts an acting career as an extra on NBC's Medium. He then interviews Paula Abdul, using "Mexican chair-people" in place of furniture (Abdul goes along with everything, explaining how she aspires to help people, until a naked man, adorned with sushi, is wheeled into the room). He then produces a celebrity interview pilot, showing him dancing erotically, criticizing Jamie-Lynn Spears' fetus with reality TV star Brittny Gastineau, unsuccessfully attempting to "interview" actor Harrison Ford, and closing with a close-up of his penis being swung around by pelvic gyrations. A focus group reviewing the pilot hate it, calling it "worse than cancer". Brüno then decides to make a sex tape, thus he then interviews Ron Paul, claiming to have mistaken him for drag queen RuPaul. While waiting in a hotel room with Paul, Brüno flirts with him before undressing, causing Paul to leave angrily and call him "queerer than the blazes".

Bruno (2000 film)

Bruno (released as The Dress Code on DVD and VHS) is a 2000 American film starring Alex D. Linz and Shirley MacLaine. The film is the first and, as of 2014, the only film ever directed by MacLaine.

Distributed by New Angel Inc., Bruno premiered at the 2000 Los Angeles Film Festival in a limited theatrical release. From there, the film was distributed straight to cable television and rights to it were acquired by Starz.

Plot

Bruno Battaglia (Alex D. Linz) is a young boy attending an American Roman Catholic school. Bruno's estranged father Dino (Gary Sinise), a police officer, left the family long ago and Bruno lives with his mother Angela (Stacey Halprin). Angela is overweight and dresses flamboyantly in outfits that she designs and makes herself, standing out in stark contrast to the rest of their conservative Italian American neighborhood.