Making the Nazis Look Great

Originally published at: http://timeghost.tv/making-the-nazis-look-great/

“How Hollywood Helped Hitler” In our latest Between 2 Wars episode we explain the use of film in Nazi propaganda. As part of that explanation, you can’t ignore Leni Riefenstahl – the most infamous and without a doubt most effective Nazi propaganda filmmaker. As we note in the video Riefenstahl’s work was in many ways…

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Trivia: The Olympic torch relay, from Ancient Olympia to the host city, was an idea of Carl Diem and Theodor Lewald, utilized by the Nazis for the first time in 1936

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And ever since, it’s been cursed! (ghost noises)

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Paradoxically: Although the movie is call “The triumph of the will” the scenes very much reinforced the stereotype that the Germans had been a people of automotons without an own will. In German the culture of “obrigkeitshörigkeit”.

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