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that, he, his wife and his mother-in-law were questioned by the
Americans several times, claiming they did not have contact with Joseph Goebbels and had never taken any money from him. Kimmich claimed that Joseph Goebbels - contrary to his own diary entries - seldom took care of his relatives. This behaviour of his brother-in-law had been decisive in his denying Goebbels' order to stay in Berlin and commit suicide. There is speculation, Kimmich may have been interned after that interview as there was a photo taken by an American journalist on June 25, 1946 - two weeks after the first interview - which shows only his daughter with her mother and grandmother. The description of the photo stated the little girl was 18 months old.
115:. The latter seems to have been skeptical at first about this relationship, because he suspected that Kimmich was not really interested in his sister, but only in the excellent connections the marriage would grant him. (Since film was an important propaganda medium for the Nazis, this was quite possible). Kimmich was able to allay Goebbels´ doubts in a private conversation in summer 1937, and the marriage took place the following year. He specialized in anti-British propaganda films, e.g.
127:. While Nazi film magazines praised the latter - shortly after release it was awarded not only "artificially valuable", but also "national-political valuable" by ministerial film checkers - today it is considered to be rather weak. Several of Kimmich's other films gained official recommendations in these years. His works
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as a screenwriter and, according to himself, as director. But as he could not really gain ground in the USA, in 1929, he went back to
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