Letter in Leni Riefenstahl archive appears to claim her set instructions led to deaths of Polish Jews, says director
Leni Riefenstahl at the 1972 Munich Olympics. A documentary about her life will premiere at the 2024 Venice film festival.Leni Riefenstahl at the 1972 Munich Olympics. A documentary about her life will premiere at the 2024 Venice film festival.
When a lance corporal passed on the comments, the officer’s letter says “it ended up sounding like this: ‘Get rid of the Jews!’”. It adds: “Prompted by this remark … some of the Polish Jews attempted to flee and the shots were fired.” The recordings accompany some of the hundreds of hours of home video footage shot by Riefenstahl’s partner, Horst Kettner, of cosy domestic life at their idyllic lakeside villa in Pöcking, south-west of Munich.Veiel’s film recounts how she was heaped with praise from the public, in particular after appearing on a late-night chatshow in 1976, alongside a former member of the workers’ anti-Nazi resistance movement, Elfriede Kretschmer.
Maischberger, one of Germany’s leading TV talkshow hosts, said her preoccupation with Riefenstahl began in 2002 when she interviewed the film-maker to mark her 100th birthday. “I left the house in Pöcking with significantly more questions than answers,” she said.
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