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blackhawks

10/16/21 4:29 PM

#10996 RE: Porgie Tirebiter #10979

No less interesting for her ability to distinguish catastrophe from brilliance.

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janice shell

10/16/21 6:58 PM

#11035 RE: Porgie Tirebiter #10979

Leni Riefenstahl was an extraordinarily interesting person.

She was. The Triumph of Will was really the only work she did for Hitler. And a great many of the Nazis refused to believe she'd really been the director. Though she was never a member of the Nazi party, she had a hard time after the war. She continued to work as a photographer for the rest of her very long life. She was particularly interested in underwater photography. At the age of 101, she was involved in a helicopter accident in Africa, and walked away from it with just a couple of broken ribs. Other people aboard were not so lucky. She died a couple of years later.

Compare and contrast with Hanna Reitsch, an enthusiastic Nazi who was loyal to Hitler till she died in 1979. She was a test pilot who worked on the war effort for years, and was for a time Hitler's personal pilot. She seems not to have been demonized in the way Riefenstahl was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Reitsch