US EditionWas Nazi Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl a Post-Truth Pioneer?
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A new generation of neo-Nazis is rising in Germany. They are very young, well-organized and violent. An interview with Axel Reitz, who was a figurehead of the far right for fifteen years. "They often lack perspective. There is no sports club, no youth center and the scout association has been cut back."
Was Nazi Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl a Post-Truth Pioneer?
The life of Hitler’s favourite filmmaker offers a blueprint for understanding the rise of fascist aesthetics today It’s 1976, and in a studio in Cologne, a lushly bearded talk show presenter introduces his guests. Before him sit two women in their seventies, both with neat perms. One, Elfriede Kretschmer, is a trade unionist from Hamburg. The other, the host tells us, is someone we already know: notorious Nazi-era filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. As …
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