The Burning Secret (German: Brennendes Geheimnis) is a 1933 Austrian-German drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Alfred Abel, Hilde Wagener and Hans Joachim Schaufuß.

[2] Because of its theme of adultery, the film was attacked by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister.

[3] The Burning Secret was the last film Robert Siodmak, who was Jewish, directed before the Nazi seizure of power.

[4] The film was released in Berlin on 29 March 1933, but was shown without the credits for director, composer, lyricist, and original author.

Joseph Goebbels attacked Siodmak as a "corrupter of the German family" in Völkischer Beobachter.