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Leni Riefenstahl's Last Words About Hitler and Goebbels: Examining the Filmmaker's Final Accounts

"Leni Riefenstahl maintained until her death in 2003 that she was an apolitical artist who was merely seduced by the aesthetic grandeur of the National Socialist regime, consistently distancing herself from personal complicity with Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels while offering contradictory reflections on their actions. Introduction: The Myth-Making and Final Declarations of the Third Reich's Premier Filmmaker The phrase "Leni Riefenstahl's last words about Hitler and Goebbels" evokes a long-standing historical inquiry into how the woman who immortalized the Nazi party in cinematic masterpieces like Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens,..."

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