Inga was 17 when she first married with an Egyptian diplomat, Kamel Abdel-Nabi, from which he divorced to continue his work at the Berlingske Tidende. In 1935, through his connections, he made a report to Hermann Goering, just married to the actress Emmy Sonnemann, who would become something like a “First lady” of Nazism.
During the wedding, to which she was invited, she managed to Joseph Goebbels get him an interview with the Führer. In the first report, Inga wrote: “I was immediately attracted to it. He looked like a loner. His eyes showed a kind heart and shone brightly. ” Hitler was delighted with her and invited her to the 1936 Olympics, where was photographed with the Nazi leader. These photographs marked his life.
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Inga Arvad and Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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After having been with the German hierarchs of the time, Inga married the Hungarian producer Paul Fejos. Around this time she developed a brief streak of actress appearing in some of her partner’s films. To continue her journalistic training, Inga decided to travel to the United States, where the FBI controlled her closely considering her a possible Nazi spy.
Thanks to her sister Kathleen, who worked as a journalist for the Washington Times-Herald, was able to interview John F. Kennedy, by then a young Harvard graduate who worked in the Navy intelligence office. This relationship compounded the suspicions of the almighty Edgar Hoover. Kennedy was not only a naval officer but the son of the American ambassador in London. The order was final, they had to follow the couple, since everyone thought that Arvad was a new Mata Hari. However, the relationship between the two was very close, to the point that the love letters that were written are still preserved in the archives of the former president. In this extensive epistolary relationship, John complains of his health problems – he suffered from Adisson’s disease and had frequent back pain – and of the troubled relationship with his family, especially with his older brother, the father’s favorite and candidate to continue his political career.
The telephone conversations between the lovers were recorded by the FBI, although it seems that they were aware of this intrusion since they frequently began their dialogues with a suspicious “for those who are listening to us”.
As this relationship could not be tolerated by the authorities, Kennedy was transferred to a combat unit in the Pacific, where he was put in command of a torpedo boat, the famous PT-109, which would open to the young man the doors of fame as a war hero and would be of great help in his political career. In fact, the sinking of your ship appears to have been due to the inexperience of the future president of the United States, since it was this the unique North American battle lost during all the war of the Pacific. Even after the failure, many believed that had he not been the ambassador’s son, he should have ended up in a court martial.
After the relationship with Kennedy – which she would call “a temporary affair” – Inga divorced her husband and began an affair with the English politician. Robert Boothby. Although he asked her to marry him, Arvad refused, and in 1946 she remarried the cowboy and actor Tim McCoy, a well-known artist in his time who shared marquees with Joan Crawford and John Wayne.
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