“German film actress Hannelore Schroth sits in a chair at a reception for German artists held in the Berlin Chancellery in 1940. “[Hitler] often remarked that he didn’t want witty or intelligent women around him, not aware how offensive such remarks must be to the ladies who were present,” the chief Nazi architect Albert Speer once wrote.”
![“German film actress Hannelore Schroth sits in a chair at a reception for German artists held in the Berlin Chancellery in 1940. “[Hitler] often remarked that he didn’t want witty or intelligent women around him, not aware how offensive such remarks must be to the ladies who were present,” the chief Nazi architect Albert Speer once wrote.”](http://9.media.tumblr.com/Mf3zixQMoogvg35rAPAMZcm1o1_400.jpg)