reception gave the leaders of the Soviet intelligence service the impression that she had close contacts with Hitler. She had more contact with the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, who referred to her in his diaries as "eine charmante Frau" ("a charming lady"). She is also rumored to have been a communist spy in a Soviet conspiracy. According to the book Killing Hitler (2006) by the British author Roger Moorhouse, she was pressured by Stalin and Beria to flirt with Adolf Hitler in order to gain and transfer information so that Hitler could be killed by secret Soviet agents. Later years Olga achieved great success in the motion picture industry. Her filmography includes 138 credits as an actor, director, and producer between 1917 and 1974. After the war she lived in the Soviet sector of Berlin, but eventually she managed to escape from her Soviet contacts. In 1949, she moved to Munich, Bavaria, and launched a cosmetics company, Olga Tschechowa Kosmetik. At the same time she continued acting, and played supporting roles and cameos in more than 20 films. She largely retired from acting in the 70s, after publishing a book of memoirs. Her correspondence with Russian actresses Olga Knipper and Alla Tarasova was published posthumously. Her niece Marina Ried and granddaughter Vera Tschechowa also became actresses. Selected filmography Anya Kraeva (1917) Poslednie priklucheniya Arsena Lupena (1918) Kaliostro (1918) Schloß Vogelöd (1921) - Baronin Safferstätt Impostor (1921) Violet (1921) - Violet The Circle of Death (1922) - Olga Petrowna Der Kampf ums Ich (1922) Nora (1923) - Nora The Pagoda (1923) Certificates of Death (1923) Tatjana (1923) - Tatjana The Lost Shoe (1923) - Estella Debit and Credit (1924) - Sabine The Enchantress (1924) The Venus of Montmartre (1925) - Gräfin Sullivan The City of Temptation (1925) The Old Ballroom (1925, part 1, 2) Should We Get Married? (1925) Love Story (1925) The Company Worth Millions (1925) The Fallen (1926) - Malwa, Freundin von Hammer The Mill at Sanssouci (1926) - Tänzerin Barberina Der Mann aus dem Jenseits (1926) - Seine Frau The Schimeck Family (1926) - Olga, seine Frau Trude (1926) The Man in the Fire (1926) - Diva Romola His Toughest Case (1926) - Mary Melton Grandstand for General Staff (1926) - Gräfin Landieren Aftermath (1926) The Italian Straw Hat (1927) The Sea (1927) - Rosseherre His Late Excellency (1927) - Baronin von Windegg The Italian Straw Hat