PROPAGANDIST FILMMAKER CAPTURED HORRIFIC ASPECTS OF NAZI GERMANY
by Paul Butler
The word propaganda is often synonymous with lie.
 Leni Riefenstahl editing her film Olympia (1938) |
But one of the curious values of propaganda to the historian is that it can tell the truth in a far more profound sense than any amount of hindsight and historical deconstruction. It can accurately portray the emotions, feelings and thoughts that brought people to a certain point of view in the first place. ...