Leni Riefenstahl

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (1902–2003) was a German film director, dancer and actress widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph of the Will, a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party.

Leni Riefenstahl in The Man With the Iron Heart
Leni Reifenstahl's film, Triumph of the Will, had made a substantial impression on the Americans who occupied Germany after World War II. Lou Weissberg mentally contrasted the heavily bombed-out post-war Nuremberg with the pristine city depicted in Triump of the Will, although he couldn't remember Riefenstahl's last name.

Tom Schmidt also remembered the film, particularly its lionization of Adolf Hitler.