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Adolf Hitler's favoured filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl captured that myth, documenting the event for her 1938 film Olympia.
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Riefenstahl was a German film-maker who became notorious for her Nazi propaganda films.
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In the Guardian, Naomi Wolf called Ms. Bigelow "an apologist for evil" and compared her to Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite documentarian.
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Ms Riefenstahl has subsequently apologised, releasing a statement in which she said she deplored the treatment of gypsies under the Nazi regime.
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As before, Ms Riefenstahl's filming and editing techniques both broke new ground, and many shots that now seem commonplace had never been seen before.
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Leni Riefenstahl took up still photography after she stopped making films.
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At the other end, there are the likes of Leni Riefenstahl, whose reputation as a filmmaker has rightly been blackened by the Nazi crimes she used her talents to celebrate.
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Liberal standard bearers like Hollywood have had no compunction about giving prestigious awards to movies like Paradise Now, which glorified murderers of Jews in a manner unmatched since the days of Leni Riefenstahl.
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Ms Riefenstahl's images of the Nuba did not erase from memory her work as Adolf Hitler's favourite filmmaker, but managed to rehabilitate her as an artist, and all African artists should be grateful for what she has managed to preserve for eternity.
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Ms Riefenstahl, whose work included the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will, about the 1934 Nazi Party Nuremberg Rally and Olympia, glorifying the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, has twice been cleared of complicity with the Nazis by war crimes courts following the collapse of the Nazi regime at the end of World War II.
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