Leni Riefenstahl in excerpt from "The White hell of Piz Palü"

This film came in a small cardboard box with the text: "The aviator Udet at the rescue of lost mountainclimbers. 12m".
The small 35mm film roll inside apeared to be a fragment of the 1929 released "Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü aka The white hell of Piz Palü".
This film was a typical German mountainfilm from the directors Arnold Fanck and G.W. Pabst. In the first shot we see the aviator Ernst Udet flying over the alps. Udet was a fighter pilot in WW1 who had become a world famous aviator in the 1920's. He apeared in several mountain films as himself.
In the next shot we see actor Gustav Diesll and the star in many films of this genre:
Leni Riefenstahl.
In the 1930's when the Nazi's came to power Leni Riefenstahl made propaganda films for
Hitler's Third Reich. After WWII she would always be associated with Nazi propaganda.
Ernst Udet joined the Nazi party in 1933 when Göring promised to buy him two American Curtis Hawk aeroplanes. He was given the rank of General and a "role"as hero of the Third Reich. In 1941 his unhappy relationship with Göring and the Nazi party
made him comit suicide.

In this excerpt we see Riefenstahl and Udet before the controverse in beautifully made drama film.

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[misslaina4634]

I would have never know about this if it wasn't for Inglourious Basterds. :D

[iannamico]

Wunderbar!

[functionform]

Tarantino is a genius.

[bearcub410]

she was a nazi devil