There was a woman named, Hilde Krüger (or Hilda Krüger) was a German actress who He played some roles in films from the Mexican Golden Film Age, but behind her angelic face and strange accent, she was also a Nazi spy sent to Mexico under the orders of Joseph Goebbels himself, her lover and boss.
The spy arrived on Mexican lands in February 1941, after failing in Hollywood. Among his talents was relating to the upper echelons of the socialite, since she was a great seductress and had a flashing smile that powerful men loved.
For his part, his mission as a spy was to help the Nazis seize Mexican oil, monitor the movements of Americans in our country, infiltrate information and get support to invade the then Soviet Union. They were difficult times.
The artistic career of the spy
This stunning blonde was born in 1912 in Cologne, Germany and from the age of 22 he made his way into the world of acting in the cinema of his country. His first major role would be in the 1935 comedy film you and the three exported to North America under the title She and the three.
This film allowed him to make himself known. Soonher beauty caught the attention of Minister Goebbels, whom she would soon seduce to become her lover. And it is that the German cinema of the time was strictly controlled by the Nazi propaganda ministry.
Nazi spy leaves Germany
In 1939, Hilda married a German in her country, whom she later abandoned because his ancestors had Jewish blood, a real problem at the time.
After this separation, the actress-spy would leave Germany with the start of World War II, first bound for London, then New York and Los Angeles to venture into the world of Hollywood and at the same time weave his network of espionage.
It is said that she was expelled from Germany because Magda Goebbels discovered her affair with her husband. By 1940, in Hollywood he only got secondary roles due to his lack of command of the language. There she became the lover of two billionaires, a powerful oil tanker and one of the owners of the Budweiser brewery.
Hilde Kruger in Mexico
In 1941 she was requested by the German intelligence services to collaborate in espionage work in Mexico. Working for the nationalist regime was one of his main desires, so he He came to our country with several missions related to oil, industrial espionage and surveillance of the movements of the US army.
In our country it would not take long for him to interact with personalities from the political spheres. So, became the lover of the then Undersecretary of the Treasury, Ramón Beteta, surely to obtain important information for the Nazis.
She also seduced Miguel Alemán before he became president and had affairs with many other personalities, including the Mime from Mexico, Mario Moreno “Cantinflas”.
The agent is discovered
Finally the United States counterintelligence service, which knew of her affair with Goebbels, discovered Hilde. They imprisoned her for a while, but Miguel Aleman himself he helped her by arranging a marriage for her with Ignacio de la Torre, grandson of Porfirio Díaz.
Thus, at the end of the war, she was declared innocent due to lack of evidence against her and she left espionage. Hilde Krüger would continue with her love affairs, now with various film producers who gave him roles in some Mexican movies.
From spy to Golden Film star
The Mexican films in which Hilde (who then changed her name to Hilda for national billboards) participated were: House of women (The story of seven sinners) from 1942, directed by Gabriel Soria, Adultery, by Jose Diaz Morales, Bartolo plays the flute Directed by Miguel Contreras Torres y The one who died of love of Michael Moray. The last three premiered in 1945.
In these films he shared the screen with actors such as Katy Jurado, Roberto Cañedo, Freddy Fernández, Manuel Medel, Shilinsky, Anita Blanch, Julián Soler and Manolo Fábregas, among others. She always in secondary roles, but after all she was another actress of our Golden Cinema
The career of the seductive actress fades
At the end of the 50s he returned to his country and filmed other films. Later returned to Mexico to seek more opportunities on the big screen without achieving any success and thus ended his artistic career. Hilda, the spy actress, died in 1991, in Lichtenfels, a city in her native Germany.
