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Remarkable footage has emerged for the first time of the moment an American woman kissed Adolf Hitler at the Olympic Games - which led the Nazi tyrant to fire his security guards.

Californian Carla de Vries stole a quick peck from Hitler when she grabbed his face at the 1936 Berlin Games as he tried to evade her advances.

Footage shows him trying to lean away - clearly not amused at the audacious attempt.

The then 40-year-old autograph hunter subsequently became notorious across the world known as 'The Woman who kissed Adolf Hitler'.

In Germany, the footage was previously banned from being shown to the public amid fears it made Nazi security appear weak.

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The video was filmed on 15th August 1936 after the mens' 1500 metres free-style swimming race.

Hitler was watching the event next to General August von Mackensen at the Olympics - where German Jewish athletes had been banned from participating.

Ms de Vries was travelling through Europe at the time and tried to take a photo of Hitler at close range.

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The Schutzstaffel guards - who would go on to run the Nazi concentration and extermination camps just three years later - repeatedly tried to prevent her from doing so.

However Carla managed to burst through the police lines and take the Fuhrer's photograph.

The 14-second video begins with the woman approaching Hitler and asking for his autograph, which he willingly supplies.

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The camera then cuts to a close-up of Cara who then brazenly tries to kiss the Nazi leader on the cheek and Hitler humorously spurns her advances - much to the laughter and gasps of the audience around him including General Mackensen.

The Schutzstaffel guard attempts to pull Carla away but undefeated, she grabs the Fuhrer's face and tries to kiss him.

This time, she succeeds in giving Hitler a peck in spite of his amused attempts to escape.

General Mackensen laughs and pushes Carla away at the end of the video.

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But the 20,000 strong crowd at the Berlin Olympics allegedly burst into applause as she returned to her seat, Carla - who was married to a Dairy farm owner called George - later said "Why, I simply embraced him [Hitler] because he appeared so friendly and gracious...

"I don't know why I did it. Certainly I hadn't planned such a thing. It's just that I'm a woman of impulses, I guess.

"It happened when I went down to take Hitler's picture with my small movie camera.

"Hitler was leaning forward, smiling, and he seemed so friendly that I just stepped up and asked for his autograph, which he wrote on my swimming ticket. He kept on smiling and so I kissed him."

Meanwhile in Nazi Germany, Hitler was furious about the incident.

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For their failure to halt the woman, several of Hitler's Schutzstaffel guards were dismissed in disgrace whilst several more were demoted in rank.

The 1936 Olympic Games were held in Nazi Berlin, Germany and were the first games to be televised across forty one countries.

Hitler saw the Olympics as an opportunity to promote his government and ideals of racial supremacy and anti-Semitism.

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The official Nazi party paper, the Volkischer Beobachter wrote in the strongest terms that Jews should not be allowed to participate in the Games.

When threatened with a boycott of the Games by other nations, Hitler appeared to allow athletes of other ethnicities from other countries to participate.

However German Jewish athletes were barred or prevented from taking part by a variety of methods and Jewish athletes from other countries seem to have been sidelined in order not to offend the Nazi government.

Black athlete Jesse Owens famously won four gold medals at the 1936 games.