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Kristina Soderbaum
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Actor Born: September 5, 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden Death: February 12, 2001 in Berlin, Germany Biography:One of the Nazi era's great female stars, blonde, blue-eyed Kristina Söderbaum was the typical modest and selfless maiden so favored by the regime. Having studied in Berlin with legendary actor "Rudolf Klein-Rogge", Söderbaum skyrocketed to fame in Veit Harlan's Yugend (aka "Youth" [1938]), in which her character kills herself when small-minded neighbors drive her young lover away. She married Harlan soon after and automatically joined the inner circle surrounding the feared minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels. With Harlan directing and another prominent Nazi sympathizer, "Thea Von Harbou", supplying the screenplays, Söderbaum went on to star in heavy-handed, government-sanctioned melodramas such as Die Reise Nach Tilsit (1939), a Nazi distortion of an Hermann Sudermann novel filmed earlier in Hollywood as "Sunrise" (1928); and Jud Süss (aka Jew Suss [1940]). The most notoriously anti-Semitic film... Full Biography
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