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Beauty Amid the Beasts

Beauty Amid the Beasts

German film actress Hannelore Schroth sits in a chair at a reception for German artists held in the Berlin Chancellery in 1940. "[Hitler] often remarked that he didn't want witty or intelligent women around him, not aware how offensive such remarks must be to the ladies who were present," the chief Nazi architect Albert Speer once wrote.

In this photo: Hannelore Schroth

Photo: Hugo Jaeger./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Jan 01, 1940