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Tag: Leni Riefenstahl

  • August 22, 2020 Greg Johnson 17
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    Remembering Leni Riefenstahl
    (August 22, 1902–September 8, 2003)

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    Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl was born on this day in Berlin in 1902. She died in Pöcking, Bavaria, on September 8, 2003, just after her 101st birthday. She was a highly accomplished dancer, actress, photographer, and film director. 

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  • August 22, 2019 P. J. Collins 11
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    Leni Riefenstahl in Modern Memory

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    One of the delights of revisiting old movies after many years is finding out that you completely misread or misremembered certain scenes. Early on in the first part of Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia, we have the entry parades of the national teams. When the French team come by, they drag their flag in the dust – because, or so I assumed decades ago, these robust athletes were utterly disgusted with the new Popular Front government under the hapless Léon Blum (more…)

  • August 22, 2019 Greg Johnson
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    Remembering Leni Riefenstahl:
    August 22, 1902–September 8, 2003

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    Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl was born on this day in Berlin in 1902. She died in Pöcking, Bavaria, on September 8, 2003, just after her 101st birthday. She was a highly accomplished dancer, actress, photographer, and film director. 

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  • August 27, 2018 Alex Graham 8
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    Hitler & Film

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    Hitler and Film: The Führer’s Hidden Passion
    New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018

    This book is a great companion to Frederic Spotts’ Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics. The only shortcoming of Spotts’ book was that it did not discuss Hitler’s interest in film and his involvement in the German film industry. This book does just that. (more…)

  • August 22, 2018 Greg Johnson 11
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    Remembering Leni Riefenstahl:
    August 22, 1902–September 8, 2003

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    Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl was born on this day in Berlin in 1902. She died in Pöcking, Bavaria, on September 8, 2003, just after her 101st birthday. She was a highly accomplished dancer, actress, photographer, and film director. 

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  • August 22, 2017 Greg Johnson 3
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    Remembering Leni Riefenstahl:
    August 22, 1902–September 8, 2003

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    Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl was born on this day in Berlin in 1902. She died in Pöcking, Bavaria, on September 8, 2003, just after her 101st birthday. She was a highly accomplished dancer, actress, photographer, and film director. 

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  • August 22, 2016 Greg Johnson 2
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    Remembering Leni Riefenstahl:
    August 22, 1902–September 8, 2003

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    Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl was born on this day in Berlin in 1902. She died in Pöcking, Bavaria, on September 8, 2003, just after her 101st birthday. She was a highly accomplished dancer, actress, photographer, and film director. 

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  • August 22, 2015 Greg Johnson
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    Remembering Leni Riefenstahl:
    August 22, 1902–September 8, 2003

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    Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl was born on this day in Berlin in 1902. She died in Pöcking, Bavaria, on September 8, 2003, just after her 101st birthday. She was a highly accomplished dancer, actress, photographer, and film director. 

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  • April 20, 2015 Thomas Goodrich 2
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    “Good War . . . Better Peace”

    DeNazification

    De-Nazification

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    To help celebrate the upcoming 70th Anniversary of the end of the “Good War” and the beginning of the “Good Peace,” I offer the following from my books, Hellstorm—The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944–1947, and Rape Hate—Sex & Violence in War & Peace. 

    And so, with the once mighty German Army now disarmed and enslaved in May, 1945, (more…)

  • August 22, 2014 Greg Johnson 7
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    Remembering Leni Riefenstahl:
    August 22, 1902–September 8, 2003

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    Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl was born on this day in Berlin in 1902. She died in Pöcking, Bavaria, on September 8, 2003, just after her 101st birthday. She was a highly accomplished dancer, actress, photographer, and film director.  (more…)

  • February 4, 2014 Thomas Goodrich 14
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    The Halls of Hell

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    Editor’s Note:

    The following is an excerpt from chapter 10 of Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947 (Sheridan, Colorado: Aberdeen Books, 2010), which deals primarily with the fate of innocent Germans, primarily women, children, the old, and infirm in the last year and aftermath of World War II.  (more…)

  • August 25, 2013 Greg Johnson
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    Erinnerung an Leni Riefenstahl:
    22. August 1902 – 8. September 2003

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    Helene Bertha Amalie „Leni“ Riefenstahl wurde an diesem Tag 1902 in Berlin geboren. Sie starb in Pöcking, Bayern, am 8. September 2003, bald nach ihrem 101. Geburtstag. Sie war eine sehr erfolgreiche Tänzerin, Schauspielerin, Fotografin und Filmregisseurin.  (more…)

  • August 23, 2013 Greg Johnson 1
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    The Counter-Currents 2013 Summer Fundraiser 
    Reasons for Optimism

    George Frederick Watts, "Hope"

    George Frederick Watts, “Hope”

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    Since our last update, we have received fifteen new donations totaling $1,605. Our total so far is $14,376.50. Our goal is to raise $50,000 by October 31, so we are $35,623.50 away from our goal. That is a lot to raise, but we have the time. The conventional wisdom is that summer is the slowest season for White Nationalist activism and fundraising, although our web traffic has remained steady. The pace of giving will quicken once we pass Labor Day.

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  • August 22, 2013 Greg Johnson 10
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    Remembering Leni Riefenstahl:
    August 22, 1902–September 8, 2003

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    Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl was born on this day in Berlin in 1902. She died in Pöcking, Bavaria, on September 8, 2003, just after her 101st birthday. She was a highly accomplished dancer, actress, photographer, and film director.  (more…)

  • June 28, 2013 Andrew Hamilton 10
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    Leni Riefenstahl’s Lost Film: Victory of Faith (1933)

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    German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will (1935-German), about the 1934 Nuremberg Party rally, is one of the most famous documentary films ever made. Virtually unknown is her first-ever documentary, a comparable film about the 1933 Party rally, Victory of Faith (Der Sieg des Glaubens) (1933-German). It was lost between 1934, when Hitler ordered all prints destroyed, and the 1990s, when a surviving copy was discovered in Great Britain.  (more…)

  • April 23, 2013 Jonathan Bowden 3
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    Hans-Jürgen Syberberg:
    Leni Riefenstahl’s Heir?

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    Editor’s Note:

    The following text is a transcript by V. S. of a lecture by Jonathan Bowden given at the 14th New Right meeting in London on April 5, 2008. (more…)

  • January 25, 2013 Jonathan Bowden 3
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    Jonathan Bowden’s Last Interview, Part 1: Transcript

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    Welcome to Counter Currents Radio. I’m your host Greg Johnson. With us today is Jonathan Bowden. First of all, I need to ask you is it “Boden” or Bowden?

    JB: Depends where you are in England basically, if you are in the North of England you say “Boden,” but if you are from the South of England, and I’m from the South of England, you say Bowden.  (more…)

  • January 7, 2013 Jonathan Bowden 8
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    Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 27 
    Jonathan Bowden’s Last Interview, Part 1

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  • June 20, 2012 Video of the Day 1
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    Video of the Day 
    Rammstein’s “Stripped”

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  • March 21, 2012 Greg Johnson 22
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    Kony 2012 & Jason Russell

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    Kony 2012 director Jason Russell’s fifteen minutes are almost up, so I thought I would get my thoughts on record before he is hopelessly passé. (more…)

  • December 6, 2011 Greg Johnson 13
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    Rammstein’s “Stripped” & “Links 2-3-4” Videos

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    The “Stripped” Video

    In 1998, the German hard rock band Rammstein covered “Stripped” (1986), by the English electronic/New Wave band Depeche Mode, for a Depeche Mode tribute album called For the Masses (1998). Later pressings of Rammstein’s second disc Sehnsucht (Longing) include “Stripped” at the end as a “hidden” track, i.e., it is not listed on the cover. (more…)

  • October 13, 2011 Derek Hawthorne 3
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    S.O.S. Iceberg

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    Editor’s Note:

    This is the fourth and final part (for now) of Derek Hawthorne’s series on the German “mountain films” of the 1920s and 30s. See the author’s review of North Face for an overview of this genre, its principal characteristics, and why it should interest readers of Counter-Currents.

    1. Introduction: From Vertical to Horizontal

    S.O.S. Iceberg is not a mountain film. (more…)

  • August 22, 2011 Jef Costello 6
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    Disingenuous Genius:
    A Tribute to Leni Riefenstahl

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    Leni Riefenstahl would be 109 today, had she lived. And if she had lived to such an advanced age, I would hardly have been surprised. For a while it seemed that she was indestructible. She released her final film (Impressionen unter Wasser) the year before her death, when she was 100. It consisted entirely of color footage she had shot while deep-sea diving over the course of many years. (more…)

  • August 22, 2011 Derek Hawthorne 3
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    Storm over Mont Blanc, Part 4

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    Part 4 of 4

    11. Death on Mont Blanc

    Act III of Storm over Mont Blanc begins in the aftermath of the death of Hella Armstrong’s father. Hella and Prof. Armstrong had come to visit Hannes, the lonely Wetterwart, atop Mont Blanc. (more…)

  • August 19, 2011 Derek Hawthorne 4
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    Storm over Mont Blanc, Part 3

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    Part 3 of 4

    7. Ascending and Descending

    Storm over Mont Blanc divides neatly into three acts. (more…)

  • August 17, 2011 Derek Hawthorne
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    Storm over Mont Blanc, Part 2

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    3. Above the Clouds

    Storm over Mont Blanc opens, appropriately, with shots of the mountain itself and of Hannes’s cabin, situated high above the clouds. (Fanck’s working title for the film was Über den Wolken, Above the Clouds.) (more…)

  • August 16, 2011 Derek Hawthorne
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    Storm over Mont Blanc, Part 1

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    1. Introduction

    Stürme über dem Mont Blanc (1930; literally, Storms over Mont Blanc) is my favorite of the Arnold Fanck mountain films. (more…)

  • August 2, 2011 Derek Hawthorne 2
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    The White Hell of Pitz Palü, Part 2

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    “It was only a narrow crevasse in the Palü Glacier,” Johannes Krafft says, “but it reached far down into the darkness.” In a flashback, we see Maria Krafft at the bottom of the crevasse. Is she unconscious, or dead? “There — an urgent cry for help came out from the icy depths — Maria was still alive!” We see Krafft peer over edge, but he can see nothing. He ties his rope to his pick, sticks it deep in the snow, and climbs down into the crevasse. (more…)

  • August 1, 2011 Derek Hawthorne
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    The White Hell of Pitz Palü, Part 1

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    1. Introduction

    The White Hell of Piz Palü (Die weisse Hölle vom Piz Palü, 1929) is considered by many to be the finest of Arnold Fanck’s mountain films. As pure cinema, this may well be the case. Though the film does not have quite the philosophical richness of Fanck’s The Holy Mountain, there is definitely more here than meets the eye. (more…)

  • July 19, 2011 Derek Hawthorne 2
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    The Holy Mountain, Part 2

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    Part 2 of 2

    4. “Diotima’s journey into the mountains”

    Due to the film’s many delays and mishaps, UFA called Arnold Fanck back to Berlin at a certain point and informed him that The Holy Mountain was canceled. (more…)

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