Leni Riefenstahl used her considerable talent to create propaganda films for Hitler, but always claimed she didn't know about ...

Debate about how German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl should be regarded has raged even after her death more than two decades ...

Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through archive photos and reconstructions, we get a ...

In an attempt to signal Germany's return to the world community after defeat in World War I, the International Olympic Committee awarded the games to Germany in 1931, before Adolf Hitler rose ...

Leni Riefenstahl was a great filmmaker... and a propagandist for the Nazi Party. A new documentary focuses on the woman behind the camera.

Adolf Hitler swept to power in Germany in the mid-1930s and immediately set out to stage the most extravagant and spectacular summer Olympics ever, the 1936 Berlin Games. And countries from around ...

This cloth crest was worn by a German athlete at the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin. It was the first mass display of Nazi imagery within world competition. The unknown wearer of this ...