"Joker" Was Based On This True Story of an Unhinged Man

Conrad's Wife

In the 1930s, Joseph Goebbels began to infiltrate the German film industry with propaganda. The Nazis required all German actors to fill out a questionnaire of their background. Conrad listed himself as “Jewish” in solidarity with his wife, Ilona Prager.

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