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- In 1920, young Olga Chekhova, the beautiful niece of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, fled Moscow for Berlin—taking only a smuggled diamond ring. Olga quickly won both celebrity as an actress and prominence in the ranks of Germany’s Nazi party, eventually becoming Hitler’s favorite actress.
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Sep 12, 2004 · The closest she ever came to active duty was a 1941 plot to assassinate Hitler, but Stalin decided that keeping him around was a better idea.
Se cree que una de sus funciones fue ayudar a su hermano en el complot para asesinar a Hitler. En 1945, luego de que Berlín fuera tomada por el Ejército Rojo , Chéjova fue detenida por agentes soviéticos y llevada a Moscú por algunas semanas para ser interrogada.
Antony Beevor’s The Mystery of Olga Chekhova tells the extraordinary tale of how one family survived the Russian revolution, the civil war, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist terror, and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova (née Knipper; Russian: Ольга Константиновна Чехова; 14 April 1897 – 9 March 1980), known in Germany as Olga Tschechowa, was a Russian-German actress. Her film roles include the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Mary (1931).
Biography by Antony Beevor of actress and film star Olga Chekhova , who was honoured by the Nazis but - with her brother - worked in secret for Soviet intelligence. The book is chiefly concerned with her place in the wider role of shifting German-Russian political allegiances and is surprisingly vague in places regarding details of her life ...
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Nov 27, 2004 · Soviet intelligence in its ignorance and misunderstanding of capitalist and Nazi society was convinced that Olga Chekhova would remain in close contact with Hitler and that she would be able to ...
May 28, 2004 · Quizá sea ese cinismo el que propicia la llegada de Hitler al poder. P. Llegan los nazis, efectivamente, y tratan a Olga como a una gran estrella. R. Hay una imagen en el libro que muestra la...
