Leni: The Life and Work of Leni RiefenstahlLeni Riefenstahl, the woman known as “Hitler’s filmmaker,” made some of the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made. They are also insidious glorifications of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Now, Steven Bach reveals the truths and lies behind Riefenstahl’s lifelong self-vindication as an apolitical artist who claimed to know nothing of the Holocaust and denied her complicity with the criminal regime she both used and sanctified. A riveting and illuminating biography of one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century. |
Contents
Prologue | 3 |
Part One BERLIN | 9 |
Three Climbing | 33 |
Five Above the Clouds | 60 |
Part Two ASCENT | 85 |
Eight The Turning Point | 98 |
Eleven The Olympic Idea | 141 |
Twelve Tomorrow the World | 164 |
Part Three AFTERMATH | 185 |
Fourteen Goodbye to All That | 206 |
Eighteen Fortune and Mens Eyes | 274 |
Nineteen The Last Picture Shows | 285 |
Acknowledgments | 301 |
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