Editing Sonja Henie (section)

===As international celebrity===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-09482, Sonja Henie.jpg|thumb|upright|Henie in Berlin, 1930]]
Henie's connections with [[Adolf Hitler]] and other high-ranking [[Nazi]] officials made her the subject of controversy before, during, and after [[World War II]]. During her amateur skating career, she performed often in [[Germany]] and was a favorite of German audiences and of Hitler personally. As a wealthy celebrity, she moved in the same social circles as royalty and heads of state and made Hitler's acquaintance as a matter of course.

Through the years, her shows and later art exhibitions drew the attention of such people as [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon]] and [[Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden]] and she met with them. During the shooting of ''[[Second Fiddle (1939 film)|Second Fiddle]]'' (1939), she greeted the then Crown-Prince couple of Norway [[Olav V of Norway|Olav]] and [[Princess Märtha of Sweden|Märtha]] during their US tour.

Controversy appeared first when Henie greeted Hitler with a [[Nazi salute]] at the 1936 Winter Olympics in [[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]] and after the Games she accepted an invitation to lunch with Hitler at his resort home in [[Berchtesgaden]] in far southeastern [[Bavaria]], where Hitler presented Henie with an autographed photo with a lengthy inscription. She was strongly denounced in the Norwegian press for this.

In her revised 1954 biography,<ref>{{cite book|last=Henie|first=Sonja|title=Wings on My Feet|edition=revised|year=1954|page=39}}</ref> she states that no Norwegian judge was in the panel for the 1936 Olympics—as she was entitled to as a Norwegian. She therefore made the best of it and won her third Olympic medal. When she—as a gold medal winner—passed Hitler's tribune with silver medalist [[Cecilia Colledge]] and bronze medalist [[Vivi-Anne Hultén]], neither she nor the others honored Hitler with the Nazi salute. The [[1936 European Figure Skating Championships]] also took place in Berlin and neither Henie, Colledge, nor [[Megan Taylor]] paid obeisance to Hitler.<ref>{{cite AV media|title=Sonja Henie - isens dronning|medium=Documentary|publisher=NRK|date=27 December 1993|url=https://tv.nrk.no/program/FPLO00000192|language=no|access-date=3 January 2021|archive-date=1 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201095717/https://tv.nrk.no/program/FPLO00000192|url-status=live}}</ref>