Editing Renate Müller (section)

==Death==

When Müller died suddenly, the German press stated the cause as [[epilepsy]]. However, it was later revealed that she had died as a result of a fall from a hotel (or hospital) window. According to [[Channel 4]] documentary "Sex and the Swastika", aired in February 2009, she jumped from a Berlin hospital window where she was being treated for a knee injury or drug addiction.

Officially described as a [[suicide]], it was theorised that she took her own life when her relationship with Nazi leaders deteriorated after she showed unwillingness to appear in [[propaganda]] films. She was also known to have been pressured to end a relationship with her [[Judaism|Jewish]] lover, but had refused. Near the end of her life, she became addicted to [[morphine]] and abused alcohol. Witnesses also recalled seeing several [[Gestapo]] officers entering her building shortly before she died. It has been asserted that she was either [[murder]]ed by Gestapo officers who threw her from a window, or that she panicked when she saw them arrive and jumped.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} The true circumstances surrounding her death remain unclear.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/renate-muller-210293|title=Renate Müller|last=Wollstein|first=Hans J.|accessdate=4 April 2009}}</ref>

According to [[Uwe Klöckner-Draga]] in his book "Renate Müller – Ihr Leben ein Drahtseilakt", on 3 April, Goebbels wrote in his diary: "Renate tells me her tale of woe. She is a sick woman." On the 6th, he mentioned that she had been interrogated in a very dishonourable way, and on 25 June: "Renate Müller! I help her." At the end of September – according to her sister Gabriele – Renate was drunk and sitting on a window sill when she lost her balance.<ref>Original in German, Goebbels: "Renate Müller erzählt mir ihre Leidengeschichte. Sie ist eine kranke Frau." / "...Renate Müller, die auf das Entehrendste vernommen wurde" / "Renate Müller! Ich helfe ihr."</ref>

Müller's life and death were portrayed in the 1960 film ''[[Sweetheart of the Gods]]''.