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The actress’s daughter, Romy Schneider, said that her mum would often visit the Nazi dictator at his Bavarian mountainside home where he would seduce her.

She made the shocking comments in an interview with the German reporter Alice Schwarzer in 1976, five years before she died.

More than 40 years later, the journalist has decided to release the interview as part of a documentary called, An Evening with Romy.

Ms Schwarzer said: “Romy was firmly convinced that her mother had a sexual relationship with Hitler.”