Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/10

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Subject: [Leica] Leni Riefenstahl
From: "Oliver Bryk" <oliverbryk@attbi.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:13:17 -0800

"To cap the prosecution's presentation on Counts 1 and 2, the Americans on
December 11 showed a four-hour movie, 'The Nazi Plan'. Excerpted from German
propaganda films and newsreels, especially Leni Riefenstahl's epic 'Triumph
of the Will', the film had been prepared by Hollywoods novelist-screenwriter
Budd Schulberg, director George C. Stevens, and Hungarian producer Alexander
Pathy under the direction of thirty-year old Commander James G. Donovan, the
general counsel of the OSS."
from Robert Conot, "Justice at Nuremberg", p. 197, Harper & Row 1983; (a
comprehensive account of the trial of the Nazi leaders)
Oliver Bryk
PS I saw some of her movies in my youth. They certainly served their
purpose. IMHO it is disingenuous of Leni Riefenstahl to deny her involvement
in the Nazi rule.



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