Leni Riefenstahl: The Horrible Power of Images

Leni Riefenstahl was a pioneering filmmaker and the most significant propagandist of National Socialism. She provided Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels with stylistic grandeur. Riefenstahl transformed them into icons. Her footage of the Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg in "Triumph of the Will" and the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin in "Olympia" remain etched in collective memory to this day. In doing so, she created a heroic epic for the Nazis.

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