Celebrity Spies, Part 3/3 - The Josephine Baker Effect | Deuxième Bureau
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Josephine's Awakening - A Review
In the late 1930s, Josephine's actually performed in Germany in Berlin. She took the review Negra to Berlin, and she took the city by storm,. By now, she was married to a Jewish man, an industrialist named Jean Leon. In one of her five autobiographies, she recalled an incident in which she witnessed a Jewish shopkeeper being humiliated by German soldiers. As someone who knew firsthand what it was like to fear for your life on the grounds of your race, she was determined to oppose these fascist thugs.
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