Paula Wessely
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Paula Anna Maria Wessely was an Austrian theatre and film actor. Die Wessely, as she was called by her admirers and fans, was Austria's foremost popular postwar actress.
Wessely in 1935
Wessely (r.) at a reception with Propaganda Minister Goebbels speaking, Vienna Hofburg, 30 March 1938
Homecoming (1941 film)
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Homecoming is a 1941 Nazi German anti-Polish propaganda film directed by Gustav Ucicky. Filled with heavy-handed caricature, it justifies extermination of Poles with a depiction of relentless persecut
Paula Wessely
…the Anschluss, after which she continued her film and theatre career. Her most notorious movie appearance was in the anti-Polish Nazi propaganda film Heimkehr ("Homecoming") by Gustav Ucicky in 1941. Heavily criticized by Austrian intellectuals after World War II, she later publicly regretted her involvement…
Filming in Poland, 1941