[Bratch]

The more effective the Propaganda Girls were, the more furious Hitler became - and it seems Dietrich was his arch nemesis. He grew increasingly obsessed with capturing her, following her movements carefully - especially while she was touring the front lines.

'Indeed,' writes Rogak, 'during the Battle of the Bulge, as the Third Army moved into Germany, Marlene barely escaped with her life when a German counterattack struck only a kilometer away from her camp'.

But she refused to be cowed and claimed she was unafraid of death.

What did keep her awake at night, however, was the possibility of being taken alive and tortured.

‘They’ll shave off my hair, stone me, and have horses drag me through the streets,’ she said, ‘or worse, force me to talk on the radio’.

According to Rogak:

‘General George Patton had presented her with a pearl-handled revolver identical to his… leaving no doubt that he meant for her to use it on herself, if the circumstances required.’

[JesusIsLord]

Marlene Dietrich is The Laziest Girl In Town (below video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr0xRNo6Xaw

[redfreedom]

Imagine an actress being that patriotic today.

I appears she worked for the OSS propaganda machine. I don’t know if that was technically a spy, but I suppose so.

What I do know, based on documentaries, that the Brits used women as actual covert spies. It was a simple idea, that no one would believe a woman could actually be a spy. Yet they were so effective.

I personally know a person that was a covert spy. By looking at him, his background, what he looked like when active, one would never believe it. He simply does not look like the Hollywood stereotype everyone expects.

Many of these people are referred to as “Secret Squirrels”.

[jroehl]

Marlene dropped her nickers for many. A very complicated way to live.

[Savage Beast]

Lili Marlene is one of the most beautiful and iconic of all songs.

When I was an American army officer stationed in Germany twenty-five years after the end of World War II, standing alone at night in the dense fog, in Army uniform and overcoat, beneath a street lamp outside die Kaserne, I cherished the mystique and the romanticism of Lili Marlene as it played over and over in my head, I half-expecting, half-hoping that Marlene Dietrich would step out of the fog and say, in her beautiful, deep, soft German accent: Got a light, soldier?

I loved being a soldier. I loved Germany. I loved the American Army. I loved my countless German friends. I loved the beautiful German women; I still think about them often. I loved the splendid German men I knew and who were my friends.

However I still cannot understand how the nation of Beethoven and Eric Maria Remarque and so much more could descend into the nightmare of naziism.

A pilgrimage to Dachau intensified the horror and made it even more incomprehensible.

All I could do was promise God and myself that I would NEVER be a part of evil, that I would seek Truth and accept it wherever it might present itself, and that I would fight against evil until my last breath and beyond.

[ansel12]

Song
WW2 Vera Lynn - Lili Marlene
https://youtu.be/ZSMuTm649Hk?si=e9p6jgdWqdAPAyZC

[Bigg Red]

MarQ

[FLT-bird]

Lili Marlene of course became a hit for the German army first. It was played by (Occupied) Radio Belgrade which could be picked up throughout Southern Europe and North Africa. It soon became a big hit with the Deutsches Afrika Korps and the British 8th army soldiers alike. My favorite version was the bitter and sarcastic version sung by the “D-Day Dodgers” who had to fight in the very tough Italian campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTggFnpOHk4