In contrast to the outrage her early film work often caused, Leni Riefenstahl died peacefully in her sleep on September 8. One of the most renowned and reviled doc-makers of all time, Riefenstahl remained unrepentant to the end for her Nazi-glorifying films. Throughout her life, people found it impossible to separate her artistic achievement in docs Olympia and Triumph of the Will from the hideous doctrines of her patron, Adolf Hitler.
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