to josephine baker was hollywood central casting.of course, she was beyond beautiful. she was beyond talented. she was a fabulous spy. as long as her health held up, she spied for the allies against vichy french throughout 1940 and 41. and then she had series of catastrophic illnesses. the likes of which, having gone through seven heart operations. i don't know how she went through what she did and she still survived. gutsy is is nowhere close to describe her but she did not have a role far as i've been able to determine. she did not have a role in regards to d-day. i say that with a caveat files are still classified. god help you if you try to work in english files. they have a 75 year rule automatic and then they can expand it. another years beyond. i can tell you working top secret in our national archives, the. that things are misfiled honestly misfiled somebody's having a bad day and i'll chuck it i'm home poof it into the wrong file or somebody says that's got to remain off it goes. when i was working top secret in one of those

and josephine baker loved him so much she would like put her balenciaga in a cab and send themto him, you know, the relationships were getting so good that they would give them lessons or like lily and then their actual vocal arrangement and things like that. lynne carter specifically yeah, there were many these great ladies of the stage and screen who, who loved him and you can see some of them on youtube now, which is really fascinating and fantastic and him doing phyllis diller is the charts amazing. it's extremely on point as the kids say. i'm interested in talking a little about sort of, i guess don't know i don't want to call it theoretical, but i guess maybe the cultural consciousness part of it, of this. but i think that like, you know, in this moment, you have people who refer to drag. we'll start drag as, you know, maybe woman faith or something, trying to, you know, this argument which sounds silly for me to dignify at this moment. i am curious know to know from you guys perspective, you know what, specifically drag or even charles for you individually what the work

as the roaring twenties hit, germany black american dancer josephine baker became a celebrated figure on the stages of berlin. extended this m a, the bus to, i always call it the grass skirt era. in short, black man have to walk around wearing a grass skirt. not a suit mixed with them on board number line and 192510 door. vanya, the child was one of the few surviving black witnesses of the nazi era, until his death in 2019. as a child, he was put to work in the circus, and, and the so called human sous. he hated being docked at, or when complete strangers would run their fingers through his hair. things got even worse with the introduction of the notorious note in bag race laws . in 1935 colonial migrants were stripped of their citizenship. pandora vanya and the child was issued in aliens passport, and was rendered stateless. he lost his job at a hotel, the finding work became nearly impossible. one of the few exceptions was a nice market. the movies, the, the most expensive film of the nazi era moons, housing required many black extras, to play servants, and a turkish power. the, the