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Leni Riefenstahl made movies for Hitler. A new documentary digs through her archives

Leni Riefenstahl shooting Olympia in 1936, alongside Nazi leaders Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring.

Adolf Hitler commissioned filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to make propaganda about Nazi Germany. She lived to be 101 years old and denied knowing about the Holocaust.

(Image credit: Vincent Productions)

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