Hi Dani,
Thanks for advice. Copyright may be a problem but not for songs which I want to post! Thanks!
Enjoy weather in your lovely Bucharest!
Can you buy strawberries now? How much they cost?
Lancer44
Off-topic: In the market (not in the store!) 1-2 EUR/kg
Off topic: In the market are the best - they taste like real strawberries!
Not bad price. Here in Oz - 1 EUR for 200 grams of New Zealand hydroponic stuff…
Queensland strawberries are hopeless if from hydroponics farms. Real ones around October/November are great and cost about 1/2 EUR for 100 grams.
Cheers,
Lancer44
Janina Zubryd, member of National Armed Forces (Narodowe Sily Zbrojne - polish anti-nazi and anti-communist ressistance). Killed by communists in 1946.
Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German-born actress, entertainer and singer.
Since leaving Berlin in 1930 until her last concert in Australia she traveled again and again to France, Austria, Switzerland and later, while being on large tours, around the whole world. “We always lived out of a suitcase”, summarized her lover Erich Maria Remarque somewhat resigning.
On March 6, 1937 Dietrich became an American citizen. In 1941 the U.S. entered the Second World War and Dietrich became one of the first celebrities to raise war bonds. She entertained troops on the front lines in a USO revue that included future TV pioneer Danny Thomas as her opening act. Dietrich was known to have strong political convictions and the mind to speak them. Like many Weimar era German entertainers, she was a staunch anti-Nazi who despised anti-Semitic policies of National Socialism.
One of the greatest offers she refused, was the idea of Adolf Hitler to bring her back to the Third Reich to make films of her choice. This also meant saying no to the Nazi regime. During World War II Dietrich refused to work in Germany despite personal appeals made by Adolf Hitler, and her films were temporarily banned there.
During the war Marlene toured the European war front and worked tirelessly entertaining the troops in USO shows. She was awarded the Medal of Freedom and made a Knight and Officer of the Légion d’Honneur. Her enjoyment of the USO shows paved the way for her public appearances.
Her singing helped on the homefront of the USA too, as she recorded a number of anti-Nazi records in German for the OSS, including Lili Marlene, a curious example of a song transcending the hatreds of war. She also played the musical saw to entertain troops. From 1943 to 1946 she made more than 500 personal appearances before Allied troops. She sang for the Allied troops on the front lines in Algiers, France and into Germany with Generals James M. Gavin and George S. Patton. When asked why she had done this, in spite of the obvious danger of being within a few kilometers of German lines, she famously replied “aus Anstand” – “it was the decent thing to do”.
The relations to Germany remained tense; since the death of her mother, on whose funeral she participated in Berlin in 1945, Marlene Dietrich never visited Germany again. In the Germany of the Adenauer era an independent, especially an erotically independent woman was regarded as indecent. Marlene Dietrich played soon after the end of the war in Billy Wilder’s film “A foreign affair”, the destroyed Berlin served as the setting for a sarcastic comedy about the affair an American soldier had with the former lover of a member of the SS. The dress Marlene Dietrich, who played the lover, was wearing in this film was similar to the one she wore when she appeared in front of the American soldiers. Many Germans - who welcomed the Americans as a protecting power and allied – took amiss in the fact, that Marlene Dietrich didn’t stand by the Germans during the war, but supported the Americans in their struggle against the “Dritte Reich”.
Above was a composite of quotes from the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Dietrich
http://www.marlenedietrich.net/bio.html
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9030401
http://www.falling-in-love-again.com/marlene-en.htm
http://www.hco.hagen.de/ausstellung/marlene/engl8.htm
http://www.hco.hagen.de/ausstellung/marlene/engl9.htm
http://www.hco.hagen.de/ausstellung/marlene/engl10.htm
http://www.greatwar.nl/remarque/remarque-eng.html
Bottom right corner:
With her lover Erich Maria Remarque - a German veteran of First World War and author of the famous novel “All Quiet on the Western Front”. He also left Germany and lived in the United States during World War II.
Click here to listen to her sing Lili Marlene in English and in German:
http://www.rhs51.com/kenwolleat/lilli13.ram
http://www.rhs51.com/kenwolleat/lilli5.ram
A nice video/music tribute to Marlene Dietrich at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtPBv0KEQNc
Lili Marlene in German and English by various artists:
http://www.rhs51.com/lillimarlene.htm
The Official Lili Marleen Page - Various Artists in German, English and other languages:
http://ingeb.org/garb/lmarleen.html
Lili Marlene - Lyrics:
http://ingeb.org/Lieder/lilimarl.html
A woman of conscience and a great American.
Eva Braun (Eva Anna Paula Braun) (February 6, 1912 – April 30, 1945) was the longtime companion and, briefly, wife of Adolf Hitler.
Born in Munich, Germany, Braun was the daughter of a school teacher from a respectable Bavarian family. She was educated at a lyceum, then for one year at a business school in a convent where she had average grades. She worked for several months as a receptionist a medical office, then at age seventeen took a job as an office and lab assistant for Heinrich Hoffmann, the official photographer for the Nazi Party. She met Hitler there in 1929 and is said to have slipped a love letter into his pocket. He had been introduced to her as “Herr Wolff” (a childhood nickname he used during the 1920s for security purposes). She described him to friends as a “gentleman of a certain age with a funny moustache, a light-coloured English overcoat, and carrying a big felt hat.” At that time Eva Braun still worked for Hoffmann as an office assistant, later becoming a photo laboratory worker, helping to process pictures of Hitler. The blonde, fresh-faced, slim, photographer’s assistant was an athletic girl, fond of skiing, mountain climbing and gymnastics as well as dancing.
After the death of Geli Raubal, Hitler’s niece, she became his mistress, living in his Munich flat, in spite of the opposition of her father who disliked the association on political and personal grounds. In 1935, after an abortive suicide attempt, Hitler bought her a villa in a Munich suburb, near to his own home, providing her with a Mercedes and a chauffeur for personal use. In his first will of 2 May 1938 he put her at the top of his personal bequests - in the event of his death she was to receive the equivalent of £600 a year for the rest of her life.
In 1936 she moved to Hitler’s Berghof at Berchtesgaden where she acted as his hostess. Reserved, indifferent to politics and keeping her distance from most of the Fuhrer’s intimates, Eva Braun led a completely isolated life in the Fuhrer’s Alpine retreat and later in Berlin. They rarely appeared in public together and few Germans even knew of her existence. There is some indication that this, along with their not having married early in their relationship, was due to Hitler’s fear that he would lose popularity among female supporters. The German people were entirely unaware of Eva Braun and her relationship with Hitler until after the war.
According to the memoirs of Albert Speer, Eva Braun never slept in the same room as Hitler and was always given her own bedroom at the Berghof, in Hitler’s Berlin residence and in the Berlin bunker. Speer commented:
Eva Braun was allowed to be present during visits from old party associates. She was banished as soon as other dignitaries of the Reich, such as cabinet ministers, appeared at the table … Hitler obviously regarded her as socially acceptable only within strict limits. Sometimes I kept her company in her exile, a room next to Hitler’s bedroom. She was so intimidated that she did not dare leave the house for a walk. Out of sympathy for her predicament I soon began to feel a liking for this unhappy woman, who was so deeply attached to Hitler.
By early April 1945 Braun had driven to Berlin from Munich to be with Hitler at the Führerbunker. She refused to leave as the Red Army closed in, insisting she was one of the only people loyal to him left in the world. Hitler and Braun were married on April 29, 1945 during a brief civil ceremony witnessed by Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann; the bride wore a blue silk dress.
With her marriage her legal name changed to Eva Hitler. When Eva signed her marriage certificate, she first wrote her family name Braun, then lined this out and replaced it with Hitler. Moreover, although bunker personnel were instructed to call her Frau Hitler, Adolf Hitler himself continued to call Eva Fräulein Braun.
There was gossip among the Führerbunker staff that Eva was carrying Hitler’s child, but there has never been any evidence to support this claim. Braun and Hitler committed suicide together on the 30th, by swallowing a cyanide capsule. She was 33. Their corpses were burned with gasoline in the Reich Chancellery garden.
Above was a composite quote from the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Braun
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/braun.html
Fun times at the mansion.
Note: The laughing woman on the right has been identified as Maria “Mitzi” Reiter, one of Hitler’s early romantic interests. (Thanks to Ingsoc for pointing this out)
Great job, as always, dear George!
Thanks a lot!
Lancer44
Thanks Lancer 
And thank you for initiating so many interesting topics for these threads.
Take Care,
George
Continuing thread of Ladies in WWII I want to show you Inge Ley, wife of German Labour Front chairman Robert Ley.
I just wonder how this ugly nazi managed to pick up that beautiful women.
The power of the position is incredible…
But you did see her without the cosmetic? There can be they approach to each other.
French Resistance
From: V-E Day, Editors of Time, Time Books, 2005, p 39
Paris on the eve of liberation, 1944.
Italian Partisans
Collaborators
“This girl pays the penalty for having had personal relations with the Germans. Here, in the Montelimar area of France, French civilians shave her head as punishment.”
Photo Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, item 111-SC-193785. Smith, photographer, August 29, 1944.
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery/WW2106.htm
“Collaborators with shaven heads are paraded through the town by the French resistance on Bastille Day.”
Photo credit: National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery2/81857.htm
“Belgian women who collaborated with the Germans during the occupation are forced to give the Nazi salute before their jeering countrymen. The women’s heads were all shaven as part of their public humiliation.”
Photo credit: Belgium National Archives
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/GALL31R/82885.htm
“Women accused of collaborating with the Germans wait to be marched through the streets of Grave by the Dutch resistance. The womens’ heads were shaved in preparation for their public humiliation.”
Photo credit: Netherlands National Archives
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/GALL31R/81875.htm
From: Life At War, Editors of Time-Life, Time-LifeBooks, 1977, p 151
From: V-E Day, Editors of Time, Time Books, 2005, p 57
From: V-E Day, Editors of Time, Time Books, 2005, p 55
Little Ladies and Gents - cute huh.
From: V-E Day, Editors of Time, Time Books, 2005, p 57
I declare one of my favourite picture. Thanks George:)
You’re welcome Dani - it’s precious isn’t it. 
Fantastic material! George, Thanks!
Jewish woman from Warsaw ghetto captured by Germans. I’m not too good in reading gothic and cannot decipher her name.
I can only guess that there is a sad story after this photo was taken.
Lancer44
Thanks Lancer
You know I was thinking of posting Jewish women from WWII. Nice pic above.
No doubt you are correct about her fate. Very sad.
In regards of the Eva Braun pics posted by George Eller, in the last pic the girl that is with Hitler is not Eva Braun but Maria Reiter, who was his lover before Eva.
Hi Ingsoc,
Are you sure? According to the caption for that photo it was taken on Hitler’s 50th birthday 1939. Eva Braun was already involved with him by that time.
Hitler on his 50th birthday
– April, 1939
http://www.stelzriede.com/ms/html/sub/mshwmsc1.htm
Click on miscellaneous photos link toward the bottom of page
It’s a very common mistake to identify her as Eva Braun, see in this link - http://www.thirdreichruins.com/berghofvisitors.htm
Here another picture of her with Hitler
As you can see she looks nothing like Eva Braun
