Leni Riefenstahl’s visit to Poland in September 1939. Photo Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2004-0019 / Burmeister, Oswald / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia
Poster for the Nazi film “Triumph of the Will” by Leni Riefenstahl. Production of L. R. Studio-Film, Berlin, Germany (L.R. are the initials of Leni Riefenstahl). Photo private collection, public domain, Wikimedia
Leni Riefenstahl with Heinrich Himmler in Nuremberg during the filming of “Triumph of the Will” (1934). Photo by Bundesarchiv, Bild 152-42-31 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia
1934. Adolf Hitler greets Leni Riefenstahl. Photo Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R99035 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia
“Triumph of the Will” was shot in Nuremberg during the 6th annual rally of the NSDAP Reich Party, September 4-10, 1934. March of SA and SS troops on Adolf Hitler Square. Photo Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-K0326-0503-003 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia
Nuremberg, NSDAP rally in 1934, march of Wehrmacht soldiers. Still from a Riefenstahl film. Photo Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-2004-0312-503 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia
Leni Riefenstahl (centre) and cameraman Walter Frentz working on the film “Olympia”, August 1936. Photo NAC/IKC, catalogue number: 1-M-2501
Riefenstahl during the filming of the film “Olympia”, 1936. Photo NAC/IKC, catalogue number: 1-M-2502-2
The VIP box during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Riefenstahl’s camera on the right. Visible are: (from left): Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess (2nd from the left), head of the International Olympic Committee Henri de Baillet-Latour (4th), Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler (5th), chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Berlin Olympics Games Theodor Lewald (7th), Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich Joseph Goebbels (8th), Prime Minister of Prussia Hermann Goering (9th). Photo NAC/IKC, ref. 1-M-878-95
With Joseph Goebbels in 1937. Photo Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S34639 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia
Leni Riefenstahl in Radom in 1939. In the background is the building of the District Local Government Association. Photo Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2004-0020 / Burmeister, Oswald / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia
In Poland in 1939. Photo. Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2004-0022 / Burmeister, Oswald / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia
Leni in Końskie. Photo bonczek_hydroforgroup / fotopolska.eu, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia
Leni Riefensthal’s letter to Adolf Hitler dated April 20, 1943, sent on his birthday, and a portrait of the artist. Items from the former International World War II Museum in Natick, Massachusetts (existed from 1999 to 2019). Photo by leewrightonflickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/8256974@N05/23548627125/, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia
The ideology that transfixed Miss Riefenstahl’s mind