Done. Thank you for posting

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.

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.

@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 :)

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!

Well she use her beauty to get what she wanted

He could have destroyed her life and family in a nod as well.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 😇

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

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

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.

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.

@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.

Course she was, she liked to be close to him

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 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.

JUST 2 BIG ZERRRRO'S

@@tomortale2333 greater men than you bud

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

That's what it's called?

@@megancrager4397 Yes.

?? 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

I don't think she was naive at all. Hardly.

@@aliciacruz5957 hi

Shut up woman what you know besides propaganda stupid

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.

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!!

Looking

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

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...

A face that could launch a thousand ships……….????

He was not more evil than you.

@@davecopp9356 for sure

@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.

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.

I guess they were too busy to talk about his"work".

I find it difficult to believe ANY of it.

Because it doesn't fit in with your narrow worldview? Lol

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.

Hitler to himself-- From Fuerer to a marriage counselor

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.

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

Why

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.

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.

What does she have to be sorry for?

Her husband

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

A megalomanic with charm.

Like either of you guys really know...

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.

It’s not her native tongue, Czech is her native tongue

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.

And Goering!