Born Liese-Lotte Bunnenberg in Bremerhaven in 1905, and originally a Berlin night-club singer, it was Soldatensender Belgrad & its Afrikakorps audience in the Western Desert that made Lale Andersen Germany’s war-time “Forces Sweetheart”.
Before war’s outbreak she married a Swiss national and, from Zurich, had criticised the Nazi regime whereby an enraged Propagandaminister Goebbels ordered her back to base her career in Germany, putting her under Gestapo surveillance. However Lale planned a later escape back to Switzerland following a 1942 troop concert in Italy but her letters were intercepted and she was seized on Milan railway station. Condemned to the concentration camps, she was allowed home to finalise her affairs but attempted suicide: Goebbels had blundered for Lale-aka-Lili Marleen had become an international figure and fearing a propaganda disaster, spared her life but banished her to her grandparents home on the Friesian island of Langeoog where she saw out the war.
Duration : 45mins. Price : UK £14.95 (inc UK p & p) Overseas £15.95
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