Audrey Hepburn's Secret Shame About Her Mother's Nazi Sympathies: New Book Reveals
It was something she rarely spoke of in detail. Says Matzen: Hepburn “feared Ella’s Nazi past would kill her career, but still, they remained close.” Ella had met Adolf Hitler in 1935 and wrote he was a “most charming personality” in a British Fascist newspaper. She kept a framed photograph of herself taken at Hitler’s Munich headquarters from the day. After Germany invaded Holland, she saw maintaining cordial relations with German Nazi officers as the best way to keep her family safe....