Leni Riefenstahl is above all known for her involvement with the Nazi regime and her part in establishing the image of National Socialism in Germany.

Riefenstahl always disputed her significance in promoting Nazism in Germany. She claims that she was "naïve", a non-political person who never joined the Nazi party and was only interested in her art, someone who only did what others did. In interviews after the war, she claimed that the driving force in her life was the search for "beauty and harmony" and "reality does not interest me."

Wether she truly believed in Nazi ideology, or wether she was just an innocent victim of Nazi propaganda herself, she played a major role in deceiving the public as to the true nature of the Nazi regime.

In May 1932 Riefenstahl met Hitler for the first time. Hitler had admired her previous work on the movie "The...