00:00Leander neither socialized with leading party members, nor took part in official Nazi party
00:04functions. A likely apocryphal meeting with Goebbels supposedly resulted in the exchange.
00:10Zara, isn't that a Jewish name? Oh, maybe, the actress said, but what about Yosef?
00:17Hmm, yes, yes, a good answer, Goebbels reportedly replied. Leander would later describe her
00:24meetings with prominent Nazis as amusing incidents during which she disarmed them
00:28with her irreverent repartee. She later recalled a meeting with Adolf Hitler at the 1939 premiere of
00:35her film, The Desert Song. She asked him, Tell me, Herr Reichskanzler, have you ever tried to do
00:41something about your hair? To which the Führer smiled at her hesitantly and described in detail
00:46his struggle, saying, You have no idea all the things I have tried. Oil, hair cream, wax, and all
00:53sorts of strange concoctions. But nothing helps. The hair keeps falling over my forehead.
00:59It's simply hopeless.
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