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🗓️ 24 February 2016
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A kiss from her helped win the war. But her real assets changed the world as we know it.
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0:00.0 | This is the way I heard it. |
0:01.0 | The End |
0:07.0 | Headwig was beautiful, and married to a man she didn't love. |
0:11.4 | Fritz was an arms merchant and deeply possessive of his trophy wife. |
0:16.2 | Consequently, Headwig was a fly on the wall at more than a few interesting dinner parties. |
0:23.0 | At their home in Vienna, Headwig listened quietly as important men discussed with her husband, |
0:28.4 | the evolving technologies that would change the complexion of modern warfare. |
0:33.1 | Fritz's guests were intelligent and influential, some were physicists, some were inventors, |
0:39.2 | many were Nazis. |
0:42.0 | Headwig didn't care for Nazis, she didn't like them in her house or at her table, |
0:46.8 | and she hated the fact that her husband was selling them weapons. |
0:51.3 | At the next fancy dinner party, Headwig selected from her vast wardrobe the most glamorous |
0:56.8 | evening gown she could find. |
0:58.8 | She adorned herself with every piece of expensive jewelry she owned. |
1:03.0 | She smiled sweetly during the appetizer, listened attentively during the main course, |
1:09.1 | and just before dessert went off to powder her nose. |
1:12.7 | She never returned. |
1:15.0 | The next morning a stunning woman arrived in Paris by train, and after that it was your |
1:20.2 | basic Hollywood fairy tale. |
1:22.8 | Headwig Kysler was discovered by Louis B. Mayer, the movie mogul. |
1:28.0 | A year later she was living in Hollywood and starring opposite Clark Gable. |
1:32.9 | By then she had a new name to go with her new address. |
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