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Riefenstahl and never
Describing the experience in her memoir, Riefenstahl wrote: " I had an almost apocalyptic vision that I was never able to forget.
From 1945 through 1948 she was held in sundry American and French-run detention camps and prisons along with house arrest but although Riefenstahl was tried four times by various postwar authorities, she was never convicted through denazification trials either for her alleged role as a propagandist or for the use of concentration camp inmates in her films.

Riefenstahl and denied
In interviews for the 1993 film The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, Riefenstahl adamantly denied any deliberate attempt to create pro-Nazi propaganda and said she was disgusted that Triumph of the Will was used in such a way.

Riefenstahl and making
According to the Daily Express of April 24, 1934, Leni Riefenstahl had read Mein Kampf during the making of her film The Blue Light.
Roman Lazarevich Karmen () ( 16 November 1906 Odessa – 28 April 1978 Moscow ) was a Soviet war camera-man and film director and one of the most influential figures in documentary film making ; insofar as his propaganda is concerned, he could be considered USSR's equivalent to Leni Riefenstahl, though the comparison is by no means absolute.

Riefenstahl and film
Helene Bertha Amalie " Leni " Riefenstahl (; August 22, 1902 – September 8, 2003 ) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker.
Riefenstahl ’ s prominence in the Third Reich, along with her personal association with Adolf Hitler, destroyed her film career following Germany's defeat in World War II, after which she was arrested but released without any charges.
After her death, the Associated Press described Riefenstahl as an “ acclaimed pioneer of film and photographic techniques ”.
In the film, Riefenstahl played a peasant girl who protected a glowing mountain grotto.
SOS Iceberg was Riefenstahl ’ s only English-language film role as an actress.
She co-wrote, directed and starred in the film and produced it under the banner of her own company, Leni Riefenstahl Productions.
Riefenstahl ’ s film of the 1934 Nazi party rally in Nuremberg
Impressed with Riefenstahl ’ s work, Hitler asked her to film the upcoming 1934 Party rally in Nuremberg, the sixth such rally.
At first, according to Riefenstahl ’ s memoir, she resisted and did not want to create further Nazi films ; instead, she wanted to direct a feature film based on Hitler ’ s favourite opera, Eugen d ' Albert's Tiefland.
It made Riefenstahl the first female film director to achieve international recognition.
In 1936, Hitler invited Riefenstahl to film the Olympic Games in Berlin, a film which Riefenstahl claimed had been commissioned by the International Olympic Committee.
Avery Brundage stated that it was " The greatest Olympic film ever made " and Riefenstahl left for Hollywood, where she was received by the German Consul Georg Gyssling, on 24 November.
To the end of her life, despite overwhelming evidence that concentration camp occupants had been forced to work on the movie unpaid, Riefenstahl continued to maintain all the film extras survived and that she had met them after the war.
Writer Budd Schulberg, assigned by the US Navy to the OSS for intelligence work while attached to John Ford ’ s documentary unit, was ordered to arrest Riefenstahl at her chalet in Kitzbühel, Austria, ostensibly to have her identify the faces of Nazi war criminals in German film footage captured by the Allied troops.
After years of legal wrangling these were returned to her, but the French government had reportedly damaged some of the film stock whilst trying to develop and edit it and a few key scenes were missing ( although Riefenstahl was surprised to find the original negatives for Olympia in the same shipment ).
Although Riefenstahl lived for almost another half century, Tiefland was her last feature film.
In 1960, Riefenstahl unsuccessfully attempted to prevent filmmaker Erwin Leiser from juxtaposing scenes from Triumph of the Will with footage from concentration camps in his film Mein Kampf.
On August 22, 2002, her 100th birthday, Riefenstahl released a film called Impressionen unter Wasser ( Underwater Impressions ), an idealized documentary of life in the oceans and her first film in over 25 years.

Riefenstahl and .
Triumph of the Will gave Riefenstahl instant and lasting international fame, as well as infamy.
Although she directed only eight films, just two of which received significant coverage outside of Germany, Riefenstahl was widely known all her life.
In the 1970s, Riefenstahl published her still photography of the Nuba tribes in Sudan in several books such as The Last of the Nuba.
Riefenstahl was born on August 22, 1902.
Riefenstahl gained a reputation on Berlin's dance circuit and she quickly moved into films.
Riefenstahl produced and directed her own work called Das Blaue Licht ( 1932 ), co-written by Carl Mayer and Béla Balázs.
Riefenstahl took dancing lessons and attended dance academies from an early age and began her career as a self-styled and well-known interpretive dancer, traveling around Europe and working with director Max Reinhardt in a show funded by Jewish producer Harry Sokal.
Instead, Riefenstahl met Luis Trenker who had starred in Fanck's films, who wrote to the director about her.
Riefenstahl went on to star in many of Fanck ’ s mountain films as an athletic and adventurous young woman with a suggestive appeal ; she became an accomplished mountaineer during the winters of filming on mountains and learned filmmaking techniques.
Riefenstahl went on to have a prolific career as an actress in silent films.
Riefenstahl accompanied Fanck to the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, where she became interested in athletic photography and filming.
Breaking from Fanck's style of setting realistic stories in fairytale mountain settings, Riefenstahl — working with leftist screen writers Béla Balázs and Carl Mayer — filmed Das Blaue Licht as a romantic, wholly mystical tale which she thought of as more fitting to the terrain.
However, it was not universally well-received, for which Riefenstahl blamed the critics, many of them Jewish.
Upon its 1938 re-release, the names of co-writer Béla Balázs and producer Harry Sokal, both Jewish, were removed from the credits ; some reports claim this was at Riefenstahl ’ s behest.
Riefenstahl received invitations to travel to Hollywood to create films, but she refused the offers in order to stay in Germany with a boyfriend.
Riefenstahl heard candidate Adolf Hitler speak at a rally in 1932 and was mesmerized by his talent as a public speaker.
Riefenstahl agreed to direct the movie after returning from filming a movie in Greenland.

never and denied
Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying: " I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.
In response, Christian Scientists say that Jesus never claimed to be God and even implicitly denied it in.
When Gumm finally remembers his true history he decides to emigrate to the Moon after all because he feels that exploration and migration, being as they are basic human impulses, should never be denied a people by any national or planetary government.
" I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly ," he wrote in another letter in 1954.
He told Mike Wallace that his longevity in baseball was due to " hard work " rather than illegal substances and denied all of McNamee's assertions that he injected Clemens with steroids, saying that they " never happened ".
Hoareau's supporters claimed the Seychelles Government was responsible for the shooting but this was denied and the murder case never solved.
The SETI Institute has also publicly denied that the candidate signal Radio source SHGb02 + 14a is of extraterrestrial origin though full details of the signal, such as its exact location have never been disclosed to the public.
Dewey denied categorically that there was anything like intrinsic values and he held the same position in regard to moral values -- moral values was also based on a learning process ; they were never " intrinsic " either absolutely or relativist.
In the East, the much hoped for bounties of Lebensraum were never attained as fluctuating front-lines and Soviet scorched earth policies denied resources to the German invaders.
Despite her years of service, she had never received a regular salary and was for years denied compensation.
" However, it can not be denied that Luther was the more magnanimous, for however much he was at times dissatisfied with Melanchthon's actions, he never uttered a word against his private character ; but Melanchthon, on the other hand, sometimes evinced a lack of confidence in Luther.
The scandal did not imperil his political career severely, though he denied the charges against him rather ineffectively, since the details were convoluted and were never clearly articulated or convincingly proven.
Nelson has since denied this, saying: " I was never seriously ill or sick at all, as reported in Anthrax ’ s July 17, 2009 press release.
Like Elizabeth, the Electress's rights are denied her by a jealous sister Anne, and she will never be sure of the English crown until her accession to the throne.
During the interview, Ventura denied the rumors and claimed that he never met Kyle nor has he heard of him before and argued that had the confrontation occurred, Kyle would be admitting to assault and that the incident would have become known across the Navy SEAL community, as Ventura was a member of the SEALs.
Rumors that the band was originally known as Dragonslayer, after the 1981 movie of the same name, were denied by King, as he stated, " We never were ; it's a myth to this day.
This Bond was denied by the Governor, and when the Bond was turned down, the Chancellor explained that Rutgers University would never be a Princeton.
Despite voluminous reader mail pointing to the numerous errors in the news story, the Observer never issued a full retraction of its claims, only going so far as to clarify that Johan Helsingius had " consistently denied " the claims of child pornography distribution.
There has been some speculation that the identity of this officer was Oleg Penkovsky, however during his radio interview to Russian station Echo of Moscow Vladimir Rezun ( alias Victor Suvorov ) denied this, saying " I never mentioned it was Penkovsky " No executed GRU traitors ( Penkovsky aside ) are known matching scant Suvorov's description given in " Aquarium "
The worker claimed that due to reduced maintenance checks, some trains were in use with defective brakes, an allegation strongly denied by the company, which said it would " never compromise on safety ".
Mason denied knowingly giving Sullivan the finger ( he later claimed that he had never even heard of the middle finger gesture at that time ).
While allegations of corruption and bribery were never proven and strongly denied by both Steele and officials like Mark Ratner, the head of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, it remained a cloud over Steele's mostly exemplary career as a boxing referee.
Eldritch denied these allegations, saying he was never offered the songs.
Haushofer also denied assisting Hitler in writing Mein Kampf, saying that he only knew of it once it was in print, and never read it.

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