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cpitts commented about Plitt and Cineplex-Odeon in Chicago on Mar 30, 2011 at 12:23 am

Yes, Mike Rogers, some of us are still around! I was an employee at Plitt from 1980-1996 in the corporate office. Although I don’t have my employee badge, I do have a “Plitt Theatres” button we used to wear. Henry Plitt was in the 101st Airborne and was supposedly one of the first to drop in to Normandy. He captured Julius Streicher in Austria. Streicher ended up in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and sentenced to death-(yes it is ironic that Plitt was a Jew). Henry was a pioneer in the theatre business, a real war hero, and was also a very generous man to charities. Bless his soul.