Leni Riefenstahl has been called the greatest female filmmaker of the 20th Century. Her most famous film, however, is "Triumph of the Will" -a documentary of the 1934 Nuremburg Congress of the Nazi Party. She was personal friends with Adolf Hitler and Josef Goebbels, but she always denied that she deliberately attempted to make pro-Nazi propaganda- despite the fact that her films were used as such. She was arrested after the War but was never convicted of any crimes. Her later photography work won much acclaim, and she was active in photography and filmmaking right up to her death in 2003 at the age of 101.
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