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Promotion photo card " Zarah Leander singt auf Schallplatte ". Signed "Herzlichst Zarah Leander, Wien 69 ".
4 x 6 in.
In 1943, Leander received a communiqué from Hitler's minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. Under the terms of Leander's 1936 contract, her salary as a UFA contract player was deposited directly into her Swedish bank account. Goebbels informed Leander that her contract was to be re-negotiated into Deutschmarks and that the time had arrived for her to become a German citizen.
In return, Goebbels offered Leander property in East Prussia, but she would also have to surrender her Swedish-based businesses and property to the Reich.
Leander's association with Nazi Germany and its film industry proved poisonous to her reputation and many Swedes reviled her as a Nazi collaborator.
She dies at age 74 in 1981.
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