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Comments on 'Die Grosse Liebe'- The Key Film in Nazi Popular Culture Discussions on Nazi cinema usually begin and sometimes end with "Triumph of the Will," but film in the Third Reich was hardly limited to outright propaganda. UFA and the other studios, with Goebbels enthusiastic encouragement, provided plenty of slick entertainment to take people's minds off such matters as rationing, arrests, deportations, and mounting casualty lists. "Die Grosse Liebe" ("The Great Love") was the most popular movie of the period and ranks as the key film in Nazi popular culture. Quite simply, it has everything that a German audience could have asked for in the summer of 1942. First and foremost, it stars Zarah Leander, an actress who combined many of the talents of Garbo and Dietrich. Unknown in America then or now, the Swedish Leander was the greatest star of the German cinema from the late 30s to well into the...

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