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Blonde leading lady of German films during the NS period. Eweler won her first movie contract courtesy of winning a beauty contest conducted by a shampoo manufacturer. She was later politically connected to the regime through her brother Heinrich, who held the rank of Sturmbannführer in the SS.

During the Third Reich , she was well-liked and well- employed , especially as her eleven years older brother Heinrich Eweler belonged to the Reich security service and most recently held the position of an SS Sturmbannführer .

About Ruth Eweler is very little known . She was around 1932 Germany's first " Miss Blonde " organized by the Natural Blonde laboratories Berlin.

The reason for her early death two years after the ending of World War II in an at this time notoriously underserved Berlin is not known. Sources mentioned she died on pneumonia, other sources said on anorexia, and other think it was suicide.

Only two years after the war she died at the age of 31 which prevented a comeback.

The actress Ruth Eweler appeared in German movies from 1933 and impersonated some interesting roles, notably as a female lead in the 1937 film The Daughter of the Samurai, which was a German-Japanese co-production.