Hollywood siren Marlene Dietrich’s plot to assassinate Hitler revealed

In Charlotte Chandler's personal biography on legendary Hollywood icon Marlene Dietrich, Douglas Fairbanks Jr (Dietrich’s boyfriend at the time) is quoted as saying that the screen goddess told him of her plan to assassinate Hitler and asked him for help.

Dietrich was apparently concerned about the rise of Nazism in her homeland.

She was deemed a traitor for refusing to return to Germany and make films at the state-run UFA studios, which would have been great propaganda for the Third Reich.

One day, according to Fairbanks, she asked for his help in an extraordinary plan. She would agree to make one film in Germany, on condition that she could be alone with the Fuhrer.

This would give her an opportunity to kill him.

She told Fairbanks: “I would gush over how I feel about him, intimating that I am desperately in love with him. I've heard Hitler likes me and I'm certain he would agree.”

Realising she would be searched, she was prepared to go into Hitler's bedroom naked if necessary, but the only detail she could not resolve was how to smuggle in a murder weapon.

She considered a poisoned hairpin, but asked for Fairbanks' suggestions, too.

“I never thought of anything,” he said.

“Fortunately, her idea didn't go any further because she didn't figure out how to complete the assassination, but she was a very brave girl and I know she would have gambled her life if she thought she had a chance of success,” he added.