December 1998 aged 94 in Aachen. Film portrayals Ernst-Günther Schenck has been portrayed by the following actors in film and television productions: The character of Dr. Hohenegg in Jonathan Littell's docudrama Les Bienveillantes is partially based on Schenck. Frank Gatliff in the United States television production The Bunker (1981). Christian Berkel in the German film Downfall (2004, Der Untergang). See also Death of Adolf Hitler References Citations Bibliography 1904 births 1998 deaths People from Marburg Alternative cancer treatment advocates German surgeons SS-Obersturmbannführer German prisoners of war in World War II held by the Soviet Union Recipients of the Iron Cross (1939), 2nd class Physicians in the Nazi Party 20th-century surgeons