LILI SINGS AGAIN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 251, 23 October 1945, Page 2

LILI SINGS AGAIN

I WAR SONG REVIVED PEACE TALKS TO GERMANS LONDON. Lili Marlene sang "Lili Marlene" for me here to-day, says a Daily Herald writer in a Hamburg dispatch. She had just finished making her first post-war broadcast to the German people. It will be radiated from Hamburg. Her first song will be "Lili Marlene." Lili's real name is Lane Andersen. She is being taken on for a fortnight's triai at Hamburg radio station. After that? In the husky voice that has charmed millions of soldiers, both British and German, she told me: "I want to make talks to the German people. They'-must be told to forget militarism." The Nazis, she said, disliked her —especially Goebbels. She smiled. "It was in February, 1942, that I met him, after I had been 'discovered' as the singer of the famous song. Goebbels engaged me to sing to his special corps twice a fortnight."And one day he took me for a 'treat' to see a ghetto. As we went through street after street of misery I told him it made mi very sad. A few days later I was dismissed."