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As Germany ’ s military collapsed in the spring of 1945 Riefenstahl left Berlin and was hitchhiking with a group of men, trying to reach her mother, when she was taken into custody by American troops.

She walked out of a holding camp, beginning a series of escapes and arrests across the chaotic landscape.

At last making it back home on a bicycle, she found that American troops had seized her house, then was surprised by how kindly they treated her.