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Subject: [Leica] Leni Riefenstahl
From: kitmc at vuelux.com (Kit McChesney | Vuelux)
Date: Tue Aug 24 17:31:34 2004

I've seen some bald-faced revisionism before, but this takes the cake! I
guess next we'll be arguing that Hitler wasn't a Nazi! 

Now maybe I will have some of that Lagavulin. I need it after this posting. 

Kit
-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+kitmc=vuelux.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+kitmc=vuelux.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marc
James Small
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 5:09 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leni Riefenstahl

At 06:19 AM 8/23/04 +0200, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
>To just look at the technical prowess of someone like Riefenstahl 
>without reference to her enthusiastic support for the Nazis is sterile. 
>She was not just someone who played along with the regime in order to 
>survive; she was a committed supporter. As such I reject her work 
>totally. I have no desire to have a book of her photographs on my shelf, 
>just as I have no need to have Mein Kampf there.

Nathan

Please.  Would you give me one example of any direct support Riefenstahl
ever gave the Nazis?  She was not a party member, she met Hitler only two
or three times in the 1930's, and was out of the public purview at the
insistence of G?bbels by 1938:  she had great difficulty finding work
during the War.

Again, provide just one example of her "committed support" to the Nazis!
She made two films, for which she was well-paid.  She had a lengthy affair
with Albrecht Speer before he was of much comment in the Third Reich.  The
Nazis swept her aside as irrelevant long before the Second World War broke
out.

Marc

msmall@infionline.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!



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