Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:11 PM 9/9/03 -0400, bdcolen wrote: >Oh, I guess you're right. If only the rest of Hitler's inner circle had >said that, we could venerate them as artists as well - after all, >wouldn't Mengele have qualified as a great creator of crafts for those >lampshades of his?;-) BD Neither Riefenstahl nor Mengele were members of either the political nor social (the "vom der berg" crowd). Mengele, however, was both a Party member and a volunteer into the Totenkampfverbande der SS. Riefenstahl was simply a cinematographer who was hired to make two movies, one in 1934 and the other in 1936, and does no other work in support of either the Nazi Party nor the German state. She was cut out of German film work due to Goebbels rather intense dislike of her, but she had refused further work for the Nazis several years before that became known to her. Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html