Editing Marcel Ophuls (section)

== Early life ==
Ophuls was born into a [[German-Jewish]] family on 1 November 1927 in [[Frankfurt]], Germany.<ref name = "NYT Obit">{{Cite news | last1 = Kandell | first1= Jonathan | title  = Marcel Ophuls, Myth-Shattering War Documentarian, Is Dead at 97 | work= [[New York Times]] | issn = 1553-8095  | date= 26 May 2025 | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/movies/marcel-ophuls-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KU8.B1vl.Y0ICrXooYO1W&smid=url-share | access-date= 27 May 2025 | archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20250527022957/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/movies/marcel-ophuls-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KU8.B1vl.Y0ICrXooYO1W&smid=url-share | archive-date = 27 May 2025 | url-status= live}}</ref> He was the son of Hildegard Wall and the director [[Max Ophüls]].<ref name="NYT Obit"/> His family left Germany in 1933 following the [[Adolf Hitler's rise to power|coming to power of the Nazi Party]] and settled in Paris, France. Following the [[Battle of France|invasion of France by Germany]] in May 1940 they were forced to flee to the [[Zone libre|Vichy zone]], remaining in hiding for over a year before crossing the [[Pyrenees]] into Spain in order to travel to the United States, arriving there in December 1941.<ref name = "AP Obit">{{Cite news | last1 = Adamson | first1 = Thomas | title = Marcel Ophuls, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who forced France to face its WWII past, is dead at 97 | work= [[The Associated Press]] | location = New York | date= 26 May 2025 | url = https://apnews.com/article/marcel-ophuls-obit-97-sorrow-pity-62b2980366b5e3327af7537f1d8129d9 | access-date = 27 May 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20250527032711/https://apnews.com/article/marcel-ophuls-obit-97-sorrow-pity-62b2980366b5e3327af7537f1d8129d9 | archive-date = 27 May 2025 | url-status = live}}</ref> Marcel attended [[Hollywood High School]], then [[Occidental College]], Los Angeles. He spent a brief period serving in a U.S. Army theatrical unit in Japan in 1946, then studied at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oocities.org/resistancehistory/sorrowpity.pdf|title=The Sorrow and the Pity|year=2000|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181103100256/https://www.oocities.org/resistancehistory/sorrowpity.pdf|archive-date=3 November 2018|url-status=live|access-date=3 November 2018}}</ref> Ophuls became a [[naturalized]] citizen of France in 1938, and of the United States in 1950.<ref name="NYT Hotel Terminus">
{{cite news| first1= James M.| last1= Markham | title= Marcel Ophuls on Barbie: Reopening Wounds of War | work= The New York Times| issn= 0362-4331 | pages= 223, 229 | date         =2 October 1988|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/02/movies/film-marcel-ophuls-on-barbie-reopening-wounds-of-war.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm | access-date = 27 May 2025}}</ref>

In 1956, he married Regine Ackermann.<ref name="NYT Obit" /> He noted in an 1988 interview, "...that his wife was "in the [[Hitler Youth]]." "My brother-in-law," he said, making the point in spades, "was in the [[1st Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring|Hermann Goering Division]]. I don't believe in [[collective guilt]]."<ref name = "NYT Hotel Terminus"/> With Ackermann, he had three daughters and three grandchildren.<ref name="NYT Obit" />

Ophuls, like his father Max, preferred not to use the German [[Umlaut (diacritic)|umlaut]] in his name ("Ophüls"). Ophuls senior removed the umlaut when he took French citizenship, and the younger Ophuls adopted the same spelling.<ref>''About the spelling of "Ophuls"'' in Collection Cinéma d'Aujourd'hui, Claude Beylie, 1963</ref>