Nazi Wives and Companions
From Nazi Film Star & Goebbels’ Mistress to Criminal & Alcoholic: Lída Baarová
15m
Lída Baarová rose from Prague’s stages to the heights of Nazi Germany’s cinema, enchanting audiences and catching the eye of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Their affair caused a scandal so great that even Hitler intervened. This film explores her meteoric rise, forbidden romance, and the downfall that left her disgraced, haunted by family tragedy, and forever marked by her ties to the Third Reich.
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