[sonsofliberty2000]

I have no doubt of her prowess of fim making talent. I only hate the way she used it. Some left Nazi Germany and used their talent elsewhere, ie Einstein, Ernest Chain (who worked with Fleming on Penicillin), Max Perutz (Nobel Prize winner for work on haemoglobin) Edward Teller(managed Los Alamos research on the hydrogen bomb), and Hans Bethe(Nobel Prize for discovery of the reactions which supply the energy in the stars) to name a few.

[veronica]

Some left Nazi Germany and used their talent elsewhere...

And some, had they not left Germany, would have been murdered, gassed. Like Billy Wilder, one of the greatest film directors of all time.

Leni Riefenstahl's "talent" doesn't even begin to approach the talent of Billy Wilder, whose accomplishments are even more to be admired, when one considers that his family perished in the death camps, thanks to Riefenstahl's "mentor", Hitler.

[Clemenza]

Let's not forget the great Film Director Fritz Lang, who turned down a job offer from Goebbels himself and fled to America.

[weegee]

Add filmmaker Fritz Lang, who left his wife behind when she chose to remain in Nazi Germany.

Mr. Lang was offered a position as Nazi propagandist and he refused.

[IronJack]

Our outrage with the Nazis was highly selective. I notice that although Werner von Braun masterminded the V2 project, he was spirited away to the United States and later celebrated as a hero.

Riefenstahl was a cinematic artist. Like many artists, she divorced herself from the subject of her composition, and concentrated on the art for its own sake. That leads to such seeming paradoxes as Triumph of the Will, where sublime beauty is invoked to glorify ultimate evil.