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Leni Riefenstahl, The Controversial Filmmaker Behind The Nazis’ Most Notorious Films

With "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia," Leni Riefenstahl celebrated and glorified the Nazi regime in the 1930s, but she always denied that her films were propaganda.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/leni-riefenstahl

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In this black-and-white photograph, Leni Riefenstahl works at a table. She appears from the waist up, wearing a lab coat and has short dark hair. She holds a strip of celluloid film upright in her right hand and uses her left hand to pull and guide it. She looks closely at the film.

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10 Artists That Hitler Truly Despised

Here are ten influential artists whose modernist ideas clashed with Hitler’s rigid aesthetic ideology, leading the Nazi regime to denounce their work as “degenerate.”

https://www.thecollector.com/artists-hitler-despised/

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Paul Klee’s 1922 oil painting "Red Balloon" shows a bright red, round balloon floating near the top center of the canvas. Surrounding it are squares, rectangles, triangles, and arches. These colorful shapes seem to be a city street. In the bottom left corner, a dark green triangle forms the ground. The painting combines soft colors with bold primary colors.

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