Interview with Joseph Goebbels secret mistress - LIDA BAAROVA
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Lida Baarova born on September 7, 1914 as Ludmila Babková in Prague, was a Czech actress and singer.
After training at the Prague Acting Conservatory, Lida Baarova made her first film at the age of 17.
In 1934 she was hired by UFA, learned German and shot Barcarole in 1935. The male lead in this production was played by the married German actor Gustav Fröhlich, with whom Baarova was henceforth in a relationship.
In 1938, Lida Baarova won the "German Film Award in Gold" for her role in "Barcarole".
After Joseph Goebbels sought her out at Gustav Fröhlich's house, she became the Reich propaganda minister's secret mistress.
The scandalous relationship was also discussed publicly.
Since 1948 Lida Baarová lived in Salzburg.
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Two points, she was strikingly beautiful in her day and still elegant later in life, second as she mentioned she enjoyed being loved by a man of immense political and societal power, it’s a very old and recurring story.
True. It's as old as time itself.
Nothing new under the sun...
Tough gig
She was also 17 years younger than Joseph Goebbels and 25 years younger than Adolf Hitler, the first man who preyed on her. Both men had huge power/influence over everyone around them.
Power: The ultimate aphrodisiac.
“ You can live a wonderful life in Germany..” famous last words.
Wow
"In April 1945, however, Lída Baarová left Prague for Germany again. On the way, she was taken into custody by the American military police, imprisoned in Munich, and later extradited to Czechoslovakia.
In Czechoslovakia in 1945, Baarová and her family were taken into custody on suspicion of collaboration with the Germans during the war. Her mother died under interrogation; her sister Zorka committed suicide in 1946"
A few things come to mind. Her claims of being naive and innocent are a stretch that cannot be believed. She had already been in the film industry for several years and the centre of plenty of attention when this particular liaison developed. Her innocence was only in not knowing what the Nazis would later do. No one did.
The Nazi regime's later extreme actions had not yet occurred and Europe was still at peace so this amounts to a powerful/influential man hooking up with an ambitious actress. Nothing unusual about that.
Yes, I do not believe she was naive either. If it had been possible I think she would have married Goebbels. She's trying to sound 'virginal', but she was living with a top German actor, so nothing virginal!!!
To know what the Nazis were planning, one needed to just listen to their speeches and read their writings.
Yea whatever. You don’t know how naive or innocent she was. Awesome how you ASSUME she was some slut cuz she did movies….Christ you serious? I’m guessing you’re JEALOUS….you’d have loved to be gorgeous and a star …..what you ever do? Not much I’m sure LMFAO 😂🤡🙄
@@ingridclare7411you aware how many women and mistresses he had? A TON. She wasn’t somehow one woman he loved dearly come ON. That THING. Women. And lots of them. Clearly he was very very good with words and charm HELLO he was propaganda ministry head and the best at what he did….what you loved every man you had sex with? Weren’t that lucky huh? She said SHE DIDNT LOVE HIM….and I’d believe that. You slept with men like that cuz YA KINDA HAD TOO if you didn’t want too. And if ya did….it was for what it could get you.
But here’s you assuming she wanted to marry him. Just disgusting assumptions. And more envy I’m guessing.
No one did? ummm I think some did.
Fascinating story. She was a young woman who caught the eye of two of the most powerful men in the world. One of those men would have given up everything just to be with her. She was flirting with these men because it was exhilarating but it was like flying close to the sun and risking being burned to death at any moment. She didn’t want to get hurt or hurt anybody else but, for a while, it was the thrill of a lifetime. What is also interesting is that someone’s wife would take her marital problem to Hitler looking for help and she got it.
@Melanie Jarrett The basic necessities: food, water, shelter . . . . and sex.
@Melanie Jarrett Without sex, there would be no people to need food, water, and shelter.
@Melanie Jarrett 😁
@Melanie Jarrett well, for some is a necessity... having a good sex life is a necessity for some ppls health and well being, the lack of it can cause low self esteem, maybe depression and from there things go downhill easily. A person with low self esteem cant accomplish so much even in professional life like a person who has confidence and whos always banging someone🤷🏻♂️
But of course not everybody is the same.
And its pretty predictable that those evil nazis would like some good looking women, they loved power, and poweful ppl enjoy that, having women is a kind of power too.
Just imagine, a dictator or person of power could be easily made fun of by not having this desire, its like they are without manhood.
Hitler was very much all about appearances... while he certainly didn't have any problems with having "action on the side" behind closed doors and out of public sight, he insisted on himself and his inner circle presenting a very carefully crafted and spotless image to the public at large. Hitler himself is said to have had an illicit romance with his own niece, Geli Rabaul, and that she eventually killed herself in part because it had to remain secret and she could never get the attention and recognition from Hitler she wanted and needed. Hitler's romance with Eva Braun was absolutely the same way. Hitler told her point blank he was "married to Germany" and couldn't be seen as having a wife or girlfriend in public, and Eva Braun basically decided she could life with that, though it weighed heavily on her and she halfhearted attempted suicide a couple of times at least, in desperate attempts to get Hitler's attention and affection more than out of any desire to end herself. Hitler's carefully crafted public image, and his need for his inner circle to present the same sort of public image, of the wholesome family centered ideal which Hitler and the Party had carefully crafted not only for appearance's sake but as a national ambition or ideal, a goal for all of society to emulate... to have a very public abandonment of that image with one of Hitler's inner circle abandoning and divorcing his wife and six children and leaving his post to take up with some film starlet, it was simply unthinkable! Magda Goebbels knew this perfectly well, even if her husband was thinking with the wrong head, she knew that Hitler would absolutely knock some sense into him. Goebbels was such a sycophant of Hitler that once Hitler finally "laid down the law" that would be the end of it. Even if Goebbels had "gone off the rails" and defied Hitler and attempted to quit, divorce Magda, and run off with his starlet, I wouldn't put it past Hitler to have him "dealt with" rather than have a big public mess that would taint his image and that of the "national socialist ideal" of motherhood, family, etc. Later! OL J R :)
She plays the innocent one but knew very well what she was doing. This is an age old story of a woman wanting to be desired by the most powerful, and conveniently overlooking the minor details of another woman, kids, careers etc. Still rings true with modern women of today.
And overlooking mass murder
@@s5mphone701 Your correct, I should have added that.
@@s5mphone701 this was years before anyone knew of that
I guess this happens as well in the USA 🇺🇸 Presidents, US Senators, Governors and HIGH NET WORTH celebrities ALL cheat on their spouses and significant others. Marilyn Monroe was JFK’s mistress, Monica Lewinsky was Bill Clinton’s, Stormy Daniels and Marla Maples was Donald Trump’s. I’m going to say that if you’re in a High Political government position like Joseph Goebells was and you can have every woman you want then there’s no stopping your chances of getting what you want
You’re right Cathyrn. When my wife cheated on me while I was home watching the kids. It wasn’t the guys fault, it was my ex-wife’s fault!
Really neat to hear someone speak about that time period who was there! I enjoyed this film as well, thanks!
She was not as innocent as she claimed. She did not discouraged him because she was afraid that he might ruin her career.
Yes, she knew exactly what she was doing.
@@aliciacruz5957 I hate her for that. She ruined a marriage
@@rachelmclaughlin1491 ....This women was an opportunistic type that put aside any inhibitions of any reality for fame and fortune at the expense of allowing advances to future her career. Shame on her, empathy wasn’t her strong suit. All around Europe people where being murdered, starved, and deprived of there civil liberties. She was enjoying fine diners and wine, parties on yachts, and visitations to wealthy people’s mansions. This wasn’t by coincidence if you ask me, this was her choice and I don’t for one minute believe she wasn’t a willingly participant implicated at the expense of those involved. She used her stunning looks, charm and sexuality to prevail.....no different than any corruption where greed and self interest are at the core of her decision. She’s truly selfish.....she’d fit in perfect today, this would easily represent 90% of a generation delusional to reality and hell bent on self entitlement.
@@rachelmclaughlin1491 ruined a marriage!? Do you know what type of person the other "poor wife" was!?
Dont be idiot.. seems like yourself had a failed marriage also.
He did it, she owned no loyalty to the other women, she didnt took votes.. and this marriage being ruined would be good for the children they killed.
Duh
I think she isn't so innocent
She was a relationship with Gustav, the best actor and biggest star of Germany who could have recommended her in good movies
Then she caught the eyes of Hitler and got to him, obviously he wasn't someone who would care for her long, but then Gobbels got her, the only other person in Germany who could have marveled her career just by a nod so she settled for him
It doesn't seem that she was so innocent
Well she use her beauty to get what she wanted
He could have destroyed her life and family in a nod as well.
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"I was so young" , but she was already living with a man. My guess is she thought it would further her career. It's funny how if you say things often enough, you can convince yourself they are true.
She worked hard at it, didn't she?
I suspect her lover /boyfriend was complicit with the affair. Kind of like Earnest, Mrs Simpson and Edward VIII. Both could have been incredibly harmed, or incredibly helped by a relationship with the minister and Hitler. She was not innocent. At 23 any woman knows when she’s being wooed.
She was 23 so not that young, she was living with a man so i presume she wasnt a virgin, she was an actress so she wasnt green. She's using the young card as an excuse, she says it a few times.
She’s speaking with the the benefit of hindsight. Of course she sees things differently now. Your outlook at 23, 33, 43, 53, 63, 73, 83 is gonna change. I don’t suppose any commentators are 23, a beautiful famous actress, and rubbing elbows with some of the most powerful men in the world? I didn’t think so....
@@louisecoffey9843 Lol, how old are you?! 23 is young.
Is she proud to be a mistress to the most horrible individual on this planet?
Course she was, she liked to be close to him
The woman had intimate relationships with some of the most murderous, deranged men in human history and smiles wistfully about it. Frightening stuff.
Today women are doing just the same. You just wait and see what history will tell about contemporary dignitaries.
Gold-digging is not a new idea. It's as old as sex.
@@mqbitsko25 It's not so much Gold-digging as the idea of getting admiring attentions from very powerful men when you are woman who is barely 23.
She didn't do it personally and most of all she paid the price... And it was decade long gone soo why feel the bad side
Cry harder. Cope.
So, she says she didn't know what was going on as she was only 23. Well, she knew he was married with small children and at 23, a women knows the ramifications of having an affair. Powerful and rich men was the ticket she needed for a better life and she really didn't care what others thought. I have no respect for her. She knew what the Germany did to her people and the Jews.
If Gobbeis would have left his wife she would take her place. Oh yes
She is talking about 1936-1937. What happend to the Jews after 1942 was top secret "geheime Reichssache" just the SS and partially the Gestapo leadership knew the details about what happend in these camps.
@@Larrypint anti jew laws were being passed since 34
@@sarvathavicharsheel7487
15. Septembers 1935 Nürnberger Blutschutzgesetz... Inspired by the Jewish Halacha marriage laws that
apply to this day in Israel.
Fascinating, although I suspect she was more complicit in the affair than she cares to admit.
She doesn’t really make an issue of it, but she was also cheating on her boyfriend. She was hoping to “upgrade”.
I think she was still insecure in her career and it was a casting couch situation..Once she breaks up with the actor she was not getting as much work, then Goebbels comes along. She used him as much as she used her. She almost got executed once the red army took over her native county and found out who she was. Hitler had already kicked her out of the country to avoid tabloid scandals of having his propaganda minister involved in an affair.
@@powerboatguy2308 I agree somewhat, however there were no tabloids. Goebbels controlled every piece of information disseminated to the public. If they could keep the Holocaust from most of the German people, an extramarital affair would have been a cake walk.
@@bobkrohn8053 seems as women don't change much over time
@@JJWoosh2 I think it’s genetic.
Good god this was absolutely FASCINATING. Truly one of a kind. Keep it coming ❤️
"Pleasant" is hardly a ringing endorsement of Goebbels. It didn't do to have him less than amused by you, methinks. Crafty minx. She liked power.
@Dick Van Steijn don't think it's too difercult to get a gage of the man's character lol.
I presume your only experience of the man's character comes from the history channel? Why don't you take a minute to listen what those who actually lived around him had to say.
You're a moron.
You will never get the truth from her b/c she doesn’t want to show her own guilt
Remember she was an actress. Acting
Very interesting. Enjoyed it.
no judgement at all - she was young and got drawn into to a relationship by a man way over her head. She honestly states that she enjoyed being loved by a man with that much power. I’m sure he also loved her in his way but once again - they wanted it all. She was lucky to have escaped.
JUST 2 BIG ZERRRRO'S
@@tomortale2333 greater men than you bud
I am sure the lady was well aware the evil man was married with 6 children ? An implausible story from start to finish. Ignored the mayhem in Germany, enjoyed the limelight etc
Well, it is also convenient to put more of the blame the much younger woman rather than the much older and powerful male predators.
I'm sure you would have been more vocal had it been you. 🙄
Evil attracts Evil
I doubt him being married was no hindrance to either of them. She was also in a relationship with someone she said she loved. It was a typical sex for benefits by both the boyfriend and the lady involved. I often wonder about the relationship between the wife and Hitler. I bet she had a gigantic crush on him! Lord knows she killed herself and her six children in that bunker for Hitler and the fatherland.
@@elisabethdakak878 AMEN 😇
Interesting interview. It's incredible to know this kind of historical characters. I am sure she always knew what she was doing. I think, besides love, she loved power, money and success.
Seriously doubt she was so naive about all this. Im sure she wasn't so innocent as she portrays herself.
agree
Exactly
Pure as the driven snow. If you don't believe it, just ask her.
I know. This struck me as well. Especially, when she made the comment, "i had a feeling something was brewing." Seriously😳. Its even more ironic how after a long time decides she needs to be CAREFUL.
Yes...let the thief in And then lock all the doors.
She mentions that she was scared of being sent back to then Czechoslovakia. That he couldve done it in a heart beat. So she played along. She was young and this guy sounded like a parasite who wouldnt leave her alone. Fricken Goebbels….who wouldnt have been uneasy.
It's a miracle she didn't get burned; she played with fire.
There is a good Czech language film (with subtitles) about her life in Berlin, I think called The Devil's mistress. It's a 2016 film, excellent production quality, interesting (and sad). She could have gone to Hollywood and maybe have become another Dietrich or Lamarr.
Thanks, I will see if I can locate it.
@@samualcrocket1405 There is a movie in Netflix about her story.I saw it don't remember the name but I think it's still showing. I think it may have the same name Devils mistress not sure check it out.
@@barbarabazin9570 I did check it out but I could not get access to it. I would like to watch it. A movie is fictionalize to be entertaining even based on history. This video is her own recollection, experience, and feelings.
Dietrich choose the Right side.
Yes it is called “The Devil’s Mistress” I DID watch it on Netflix 3X and it was a good film
" Hitler raged like a mad man"..how many times have you heard this..LOL.
When Frolich asked you. What he wants from you? Are u serious Lida?
I wonder how many women he told “you can live a wenderful life on Germany”.?
Hitler didn't make a habbit of offering random actresses tea like Goebbels so she was the only one.
''WONDERBAR''
@@colonelsmith7757 could it be that Hitler liked her too. He was hence jealous that Gobbels and not him got the reciprocation
Just a thought
@@sarvathavicharsheel7487 There is nothing to support that even as an assumption, besides the fact that Hitler was already with Eva, throughout the story it is obvious that he either wanted her to go back or get settled in Germany with either Goebbels or her actor boyfriend.
He was annoyed by the whole affair, as was everyone who was in the know, because Goebbels was a married man.
"Why is he staring at me like that?" Perhaps madam, because he was the biggest psychopath in human history?
No, that would be ilja Ehrenburg
Especially funny since she looked nothing like Geli Raubal…
@@vidikat why does That matter
@@alexacasa3888 Commenting on this because this video claims Lida and Geli look similar, hence Hitler’s fascination with her. Lida looks nothing like her.
@@vidikat That's what *Hitler* said, neither the video nor Lida claim this is the case, but at the end of the day it didn't matter. Hitler saw a person who in his eyes was very similar to somebody who was very close to him and had tregically committed suicided; seeing her "again" probably shook him, it's understandable.
she knew what she was getting into and she enjoyed it.
And ?
Yes, she enjoyed it, while some of her colleagues were dying in concentration camps.
@@enlightening_bubbles and?
So what?
Who knows what her aim was. Why did she align herself with a club footed dwarf sized man? I must have been for the prestige.
Hitler: You can live a wonderful life in Germany. Pay no attention to the 1,000 B-17's flying overhead
This woman survived WWII lived to tell us her life experience with Top Nazis , you can tell she must been Beautiful looking when young .
Looking
She was nobody's fool and she negotiated that snake pit well. Being involved with anybody in that nefarious inner circle was incredibly dangerous and successful navigation of it attests to her superior instincts, innate cunning, and inordinate sense of good timing.
And sluttery.
Yes indeed
@@tonyochoa7097 thank you for the heads up, Tony. P
“She was nobody’s fool”? You are foolish yourself! A nineteen-year old girl who has an affair with Goebbel’s and is either completely ignorant are complicit in his crimes. If she had joined the resistance and have killed him THEN she should command respect. Otherwise, she was just a naive girl.
Get back in the kitchen don't speak about things you don't know about
Wow, how did you ever get this interview? It’s fantastic!
It's history in the first person.
Irreplaceable - irrespective of other issues such as evil, murder and oppression. Through the Internet she brought me back in time.
She’s disgusting!!
"Kissinger Syndrome." Being around the powerful moves people the wrong way.
That's what it's called?
@@megancrager4397 Yes.
Beautiful woman. Looks incredible for her age. Very interesting to hear first hand accounts of what happened at that time. So few are left
?? Beautiful woman? Boy are you ever misguided.
@@joepalooka2145 maybe Rosie O’Donnell is more your speed
I agree with Palooka.
At the conclusion of this documentary, you only comment with superficial appearance ?
Give the world a break.
You are so superficial after viewing the documentary, your ONLY is a women's appearance . GEEEZZZ
@@joekabotz734 why don’t you give the world a break and stop being so limp wristed. She was a beautiful woman. You and Palooka probably don’t like women, guys more your thing huh. Get a frigen life loser
Wife didn't turn out to be so nice to their children.
An amazing story! And to see Lida with tears in her eyes as she recounts her story, still beautiful, is so moving! The image of Joseph Goebells playing the piano for her, with swans on a small lake, and how they were able to laugh together ... And then to think she was surrounded by such face-to-face evil, is REALLY disturbing! ... RIP Lida!
He was not more evil than you.
@@davecopp9356 for sure
I am sick of the statements that he was "charming, interesting, witty..." how many of her countrymen ended up in death camps, prettier girls than her, but that only says that a man does not want to give up a material, comfortable life, a mansion, cars.. even when you are supposed to be the lover of such a disgusting, sick character.
Someone said it was nice in the comments, how could she laugh by the lake with swans, with such a sick person.
The biggest humiliation was the meeting with his wife, she made it clear who and what she was, "outside my house, I don't care what happens."
I think unless you live through a period of history such as this you should keep your opinions of her to yourself. No one knows what it was like or what you would do unless it happened to you.
Oh please sluts always know and cheating with married man seriously
Well said!
I believe her! Can you imagine being in the room with an angrier than usual Hitler while he’s telling Goebbels, “this bitch gotta go!” Tf could she do about him being so smitten?! Def had to play that shit carefully 😂
I agree with you. That was a messed up time. People did what they had to to survive. But 50 years later I'm not buying the " I didn't know it wasn't my fault " defense any longer. She knew just what she was doing and lucky she didn't end up in a mass grave somewhere
Bjs probably
Still a very beautiful woman and a very interesting story with some infamous people from history.
A face that could launch a thousand ships……….????
It's probably good she was so young and naive at the time. While she says she knew at the time she was in danger, I have a feeling she didn't fully appreciate how easily she could have ended up dead for this little dalliance.
I don't think she was naive at all. Hardly.
@@aliciacruz5957 hi
Shut up woman what you know besides propaganda stupid
She makes it sound like she was trapped, held in a basement dungeon and oh the the poor starlet just can’t escape the evil man wanting her body
Sounds to me , like she enjoyed being admired , and then later it occurred to her, the seriousness of it all . I think she has given an honest account. And had the sense to leave him while she could .
Awesome interview... Just imagine , she had the power over one of the most powerful at the time. Thanks for sharing
but she didnt did she? And she put her family in danger because if she refused him he couldve deported all of them.
She had morals that belonged in the garbage with goebbels and his Nazi friends
Did the camera lens need to be so close.
A GOOD STORY TELLER , SHE IS STILL ACTING.
Trying to justify herself for being a kept woman by a monster!
I guess they were too busy to talk about his"work".
She's lucky not to have ended up like Mussolini's mistress.
Let's not forget that everything happened before the war. During the war she lived in Prague and after the war she was imprisoned for 1.5 years, even though she helped so many people and nothing was proved against her. Her mother died during post-war interrogation, her father became a cripple when he tried to rescue her from prison. Her sister was booted out of the theater after the war and committed suicide. The family villa was half stolen by the communists after the 1948 coup and then completely stolen years later.
Great interview. I like learning about the non-military lives of these guys.
Imagine Hitler having to deal with this when running a war.
Hitler to himself-- From Fuerer to a marriage counselor
At first I felt sorry for her. Then again she knew she was dealing with the devil.
I don't know. She wouldn't be the first young actress who got in over her head with some powerful men. Age old tale.
Her reminiscing gives me the creeps. She's loving all the attention
Them Nazis was some serious freaks. And the people that love them.....
I had the same I hung feeling. Like are we talking about the same psychopath here? He was so funny and charming when he was propagandizing the genocide or millions. Gtfo 😡
Past tense, loved. She's been dead for 21 years.
Different times. Can imagine that all the receptions, made quite an impact on a beautiful 17 year old. It was just 1931/32, so no holocaust or war in sight. We can not blame her, she is an actress. All these types live for the limelight, the applause and the adoration...
Great interview thanks for posting
Thank you for the video!
while she was having great times with him, innocent victims from prague were being killed and deported...
Oh well no one is perfect
Well and the rest of the world was celebrating while 12-15 million Germans have been expelled and 1.5 million got killed 1945-1949... It's All a question of perspective
This was before 1938, you moron.
No Prague was captured later, after she left
Personally, it would take wild horses to make me admit I had had a relationship with the likes of Goebbels.
I would rather die than admit I was that dogs mistress
Wild wild horses couldn’t keep her away.
Apparently Hitler was so much more boring...
Actually, it is easy to judge someone well after their time. When you are in their situation, you often flow with the tide and conveniently stop thinking about morals, especially when it interferes with your own well-being. I admire people who put principles before personal gain but if I were in their situation, how would I behave? I don't know.
@@Jay-gq3yk I don't know how I would behave possibly. But I do know one thing I would not do an interview about it.
I wonder if she saw his club foot.
Incredibly fascinating story. Such frankness and honesty is astounding. This woman admits to her youthful human frailties in clear and precise language. She also reveals that even the most powerful in the Nazi reality could succumb to their own passions and desires. The wife tattling to Hitler was also incredibly human. She had a huge brood to care for and was probably in a state of complete internal panic about her fate. If I could, I would give this woman a huge hug, as you can still see the pain all of this caused her all these years later. Fleeing for one’s life is a very traumatic event. Thank you so much for finding this dear soul and interviewing her. Liked and subscribed.
I should like to say that I appreciate (belatedly) your comment about this woman's spellbinding story.
So many comments here I find surprising in their assertions that she "knew exactly what she was doing." I agree that she was undoubtedly responsible for engaging in flirtation and basking in admiration, but most young women (and men) do this, if given the chance, because it is a natural part of being young and eager to experience life. It is difficult to believe that anyone judging her as "bad" has never done something egocentrically foolish in youth. It just happens that her youthful folly was within the context of extremely significant historical persons and events.
At 41:40 she admits that tolerating Goebbels was "probably not right," but if she had not tolerated him, what might have happened then?
BEAUTIFUL comment from you! I too felt deeply for this beautiful woman, even in old age! ...
She lost most of her film career as a result but I'm not sure she told us the full story. She wasn't as naive as she is suggesting she was. She was living with an actor . She has glossed over any intimate details. Almost as if the r/ship wasn't intimate physically. But it was....' What does he want from me' is a bit comical. He wanted what men want!!! She knew that. As long as she left her life was safe. Btw, Magda Goebbels actually wanted a divorce!!! As she was in love with someone else herself. A member of Goebbels staff. All this infuriated Hitler. They were ALL misbehaving. As acting First Family. the Goebbels could NOT be divorced in Nazi Germany.
Fascinating interview, whether you think that she's telling lies or not. The real historians can decipher and sift through the shit. Very soon, there will be no first-hand witnesses left.
@Dick Van Steijn nobody said she was.
@Dick Van Steijn I would only believe the likes of David Irving. Most historians and writers of history, only quote themselves.
Give her a break…She was dealing with people who could murder her at any time
with no consequences. What could a 23 year old do against such power? Most people
would silently do the same through fear.
She had an affair with Geobbels and she said she had a ' good relationship with Hitler' she must have shared at least some of their sick and evil ' beliefs'.
And?
@@fattyginsberg4977 and she probly still does
She is a very beautiful sincere and intelligent woman!
No Wonder Dr Goebbels fell for her. She was beautiful.
When she speaks about the time after Hitler learned about it (from Magda) and all the troubles it made, her eye become wet with tears (around 36:20 onwards).
It's interesting that Hitler saw the Slavs as racially inferior to the Germans, yet he overlooked the fact that Lida Baarova was a Slav.
She likely had jewish blood as well just like Hitler and Goebbels.That would seem to be the difference. None were examples of nordic aryanism.
@@jeffpliskin maybe you got Jewish blood yourself.
@@jeffpliskin Slavs were never seen as Aryan by the Nazis so it didn’t make a difference whether did or didn’t
@@idontgiveafaboutyou Clearly Hitler and Goebbels didnt agree in Ms Baarova's case the facts speak for themselves. I commented its highly likely because she had a swarthy complexion as did Goebbels and much recent research suggests Hitler was Quarter jewish.
And he was disgusting.. Six kids, a beautiful wife, and he more or less intimidates an actress into an affair. It sounds like she was afraid to say no.
But also that it didn't trouble her to be living with one man and laying down with another one. Yuck.
Her career was the most important to her.
@@enlightening_bubbles her career?
He advocated the murder of ALL jews and "untermesch" slavs and you think he was disgusting because he banged a younger chick/cheated her old evil btch!?
Not everybody gets satisfied with a middle aged women in a marriage on crisis pal. And he having children has nothing to do. Guy wanted to F some younger beauty so he did. Nothing "disgusting" about, but maybe you are a square church guy.. each has to freedom to live like they want to.
If he was disgusting was by the fact that he helped killing millions, his children included, and those with the help of the "poor cheated wife" you so much defended.. also the btch was ugly asf, beautiful lol.
Think about Harvey Weinstein. Some had sex with him willingly, some felt forced and some were downright forced. The acting business has probably always been rotten. Loads of stories of this from the Hollywood golden age as well.
It's interesting that she left out the part where in 1945, she left Prague for Germany again. And on the way, she was arrested by the American Military Police, then imprisoned in Munich, and later extradited back to Czechoslovakia.
She didn't seem too upset after the facts later came out detailing how murderous animals they all were, including Goebbel's wife, who took her children into Hitler's bunker and killed them, then herself.
What life would the children would have had if they were arrested by allied forces
Yeah, never understood that, it’s not as if they would have imprisoned/killed the young children.
Didn't know that.
If they lived the life of Nazi royalty as she did I think the only regret they had is that they lost the war. Human life meant very little of those not in that inner circle.
Authoritarianism is terrifying whether that be fascism, socialism, or communism. Individual Rights are sacrificed for the well being of elite Party members under the guise of equality and collectivism..
@@kgisabeast Yes, but in that chaos, you are in a delirium. You can't think straight and panic and fear must have set in, in addition to fanaticism and this idea that to live in a Germany that is in rubbles would be useless for her children. It's so sad. Magda's older daughter, Helga, tried to resist this and woke up as the rest of the children were being poisoned. They (the doctor or Magda, or both, forced her jaw so hard, it broke! Oh my god, Helga didn't deserve to die like that!
@@sarvathavicharsheel7487 Remember it was the red army who got to Berlin first,thats why they commited suic8de and murdered the children
To think she met Hitler and Gobbles and heard them argue
I could not watch the entire thing. She is the biggest liar ever. Acting naive and innocent. They call them dirty girls in my country
Goebbels....Harvey Weinstein with political power
Only half the size though
Don't know how you can compare that bullfrog with a amazing man like Goebbels.
@@brandongardner3073 more like a poisoned dwarf
Harvey was only half as smart as Joseph.
@@jamesjack6769 Yeah I agree
It takes two to tango!!!!
Its hard to believe the accuracy of this woman's version of the story.
I find it difficult to believe ANY of it.
Because it doesn't fit in with your narrow worldview? Lol
Fascinating story, and I can see that you were a very beautiful young woman. I am sure many men would be attracted to you.
Many women have made the same mistake over the world history. And suffered the same consequence.
Oh Lida Lida Lida! How much you left out. Tsk tsk. Of course all of the info you kept quiet would have made you look very bad!
Eye rolling my way through this interview.
Some women would sleep with Satan himself to advance their careers. I guess I should be impressed by her machinations.
Can you imagine being in the room with an angrier than usual Hitler and he points to you and says, “this bitch has gotta go!” And I believe her. Tf could she do about him being so smitten?! She definitely had to play that carefully cuz had he gotten offended…..
Interesting, I’m about 75% of the way through this video and no one has anyone talked about Goebbels wife.
The mistress never talks about the wife. Even in 3rd Reich.
@@joeyb4045 She talks about the wife before the end. They talked at the wife's request.
She is terrifyingly unremorseful
What does she have to be sorry for?
Her husband
She also had a brief meaningless affair with Idi Amin...
And TooLooze Lautrec
Brilliant interview with Lida she was so beautiful and her story is unique and different what a life she led only wish she and her family would have moved to the states when she had the chance
She was there.
Everyone else pretends, speculates, exaggerates, judges...she was there and I can see why that little Napoleon was attracted to this lady. She was only 18 years old at the time. I did the most stupid things in my 20's (and 30's). What she shares is so typical if a beautiful young girl only it was w JG.
May she Rest In Peace. I shall keep her in my prayers too.
She lived in a time of great uncertainty. She had to watch everything she said and everything she did. Otherwise, she could have been deported or, worse, shot. I find her to be a fascinating witness to history. She was very young too, don't forget. She is a wily woman who did what she did to SURVIVE.
Just thinking about a man his contemporaries called "malignant" makes my skin crawl. The idea of having an intimate relationship with him turns my stomach.
She was very beautiful
No one should have to die alone.
Every man dies alone. What are you talking about? Who takes your hand in death and hop scotches down the prim rose path to eternal judgement? That's never happened once in the total history of death. Even Adam went alone. And he walked with God once. Every man dies totally alone. There are no partnerships or safety in numbers as one approaches their personal apocalypse. Just like sitting in the dentists chair for a triple by pass root canal. Just saying. Now let us pray 🙏
@@quantumpotential7639 If you believe in myths, then I guess you have the luxury of not dying alone. You'll be able to pretend that baby Jeebus is right there with you and waiting for you on the other side. Talk about a primrose path. Great crutch if you are ignorant enough to stomach it.
This a danger that very beautiful women face, she was lucky to have survived this.
The biggest danger is slamming into the wall at 225 mph. It happens a lot too.
Das sie von dieser Spiele damit lebend daher gegangen ist ist ein Wunder.
I love her honesty.
This woman makes me angry
Why
This interview made my skin crawl. I don’t care how young she was at that time, but she cavorted with two of the most evil men in history. She had to know what they were capable of, but the allure of power was just too great for her to resist. I would have been interested to know what her life was like during the war and after.
Well she wouldnt have known of the holocaust then
Where do you get two of the most evil men in history from? Do you read impartial history or propaganda
Look it up.
@@mikebellis5713 Mike please.🤣🤣🤣
@@mikebellis5713 Nazism or death wish never goes out of fashion.
Still beautiful in old age.
Yes, very true.
Yes she was a bewitching beauty as a young woman, still strikingly elegant in old age.
A cougarrrrrr 🎉
Incredible documented interview from a woman of class non of those Nazis deserved to corrupt. So glad she escaped it all and had a long life.
It's impossible to determine how honest she is being in this interview. She depicts herself as a victim of circumstance ("I did nothing" and "I was a Czech and afraid I could be deported"). I suspect some of her political feelings slopped out when she called Goebbels "a great man" and said that looking back Hitler "didn't get everything right".
Poisonous little dwarf loved beautiful young women....
Good summery.
You win 🏆
@Andre LaRue those Stalin killed where scum and traitors ? From the viewpoint of the Nazis those who they killed were scum and traitors. So you just confirmed that Stalin was also a (left) fascist murderer who did just the same attitude as Hitler. Do not forget that Germany and the Soviet Union together started the 2nd WW. They agreed (Von Ribbentrop pact) tot divide Poland between each other. While Germany attacked Poland from the West the Soviets attacked Poland from the east, so that Poland had to fight on two fronts (also remember Katyn).
Also do not tell me that all the people in Ukraine he left to die from hunger where all scum and traitors.
He has good taste in women's......that monster
He have Good taste in women..
Goebbels was a noted philanderer, this women was not alone in having relations with him.
Keeping bad company still flaunting innocence is as much fashionable as it's earlier.Great moralist!