[Old Teufel Hunden]

What you said: "And btw she didn’t get any Oscars or accolades."

What I said: "And some Nazi women (Leni Riefenstahl) even get huge applause and accolades from the Oscars crowd."

No where in my statement did I say she got an Oscar. The accolades I referred to was from the Oscar Crowd and that was in 2004.

http://articles.latimes.com/2004/mar/08/entertainment/et-counterpunch8

Here's a quote from Jerry Brukheimer in the article: "She was a genius, and her movies were innovative and still copied today...."

You said, "Riefenstahl made two features for the Nazis, neither of which had any racialist or anti-Semitic content."

Again, I never said her movies were anti-Semitic. They were racist and propoganda however as they extolled the superiority of the Aryan race. How is that not racist? She used gypsys from concentration camps as extras in a movie. How is that not despicable? Hitler was a guest at her wedding in 1944. She was a true believer. And the Hollywood crowd in 2004 included her in memoriam and gave her a big round of applause.

[Borges]

Jerry Bruckheimer’s comment about her is the plain and honest truth. She was a genius and her films were technically astonishing and highly influential. She pretty much invented sports photography. Praising her technical accomplishments is no different than opera houses holding Wagner festivals. Are the people who applaud and attend proto anti-semites? Of course not and neither was the Oscar crowd. Nothing she did after the war suggests that she had anything thing of the true believer in her...just an opportunist. She’s certainly more guilty than Eisenstein who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time but I wouldn’t put her in the same group with murderers.