Filmmaker and actor Leni Riefenstahl has been the subject of a slew of documentaries over the years, many attempting to unravel the truth about her relationship with the Nazi Party . Was the director of Hitler-boosting propaganda film Triumph of the Will the commissioned artist she later claimed to have been, unaware that the Holocaust was occurring as her cameras rolled? That’s what Riefenstahl herself told Vanity Fair in a 1984 interview. “If Stalin had invited me to Moscow to make a movie about the Russian army, if Roosevelt had said, ‘Come to America, make a documentary on the navy,’ I would have gone,” she said then .

“Maybe for Stalin,” says German journalist, talk show host, and writer Sandra Maischberger skeptically. “She would have found something there to admire, as we

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