Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, photographer and actress known for producing Nazi propaganda.
Riefenstahl in a 1930s postcard honoring her for the propaganda film Olympia
Riefenstahl (right) in Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (1925)
Riefenstahl stands near Heinrich Himmler while instructing her camera crew at Nuremberg, 1934.
Riefenstahl and a camera crew stand in front of Hitler's car during the 1934 rally in Nuremberg.
Propaganda in Nazi Germany
The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of Nazi policies.
Joseph Goebbels, the head of Nazi Germany's Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
A 1937 anti-Bolshevik Nazi propaganda poster. The translated caption reads: "Bolshevism without a mask – large anti-Bolshevik exhibition of the NSDAP Gauleitung Berlin from 6 November to 19 December 1937 in the Reichstag building".
Propaganda recruiting poster of the 27th SS Volunteer Division "Langemarck" with the title "Flemings all in the SS Langemarck!"
German soldiers removing Polish government insignia in Gdynia soon after the invasion of Poland in 1939
