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Pan sign of exhibit to Museum 2. Various of Leni Riefenstahl visiting exhibition 3. Various of Time Magazine cover featuring Leni Riefenstahl 4. SOUNDBITE: (German) Leni Riefenstahl: \"It is generally said...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003ePotsdam, Germany, March 1999\u003cbr/\u003e1. Pan sign of exhibit to Museum \u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of Leni Riefenstahl visiting exhibition \u003cbr/\u003e3. Various of Time Magazine cover featuring Leni Riefenstahl \u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (German) Leni Riefenstahl: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It is generally said that the German government had given me the task of making the Olympic film, or that Dr. Goebbels had given me the task or god knows who else or that Hitler had. Hitler had absolutely nothing to do with the film. He was, as I have heard, bitterly disappointed that I made this Olympic film because he would have preferred it if I had made other films. Because Hitler himself was, in the beginning, not interested in the Olympic games. He probably did not like that black athletes won great medals.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. STILL of Riefenstahl with symbol of German government in 1934\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various shots of STILL of Riefenstahl with Adolf Hitler\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various CLIPS of \"Triumph of the Will\" (filmed from monitor at exhibition) \u003cbr/\u003e8. Various STILLS of Riefenstahl at work \u003cbr/\u003e9. Various CLIPS of \"Olympia\" (filmed from monitor at exhibition) \u003cbr/\u003eBERLIN (AP) - Photographer and Nazi-era filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, whose hypnotic depiction of Hitler's Nuremberg rally, 'Triumph of the Will,' was renowned and despised as the best propaganda film ever made, died Monday. She was 101.\u003cbr/\u003eRiefenstahl, whose health had been weakened by injuries sustained in accidents, died in her sleep at home Monday night, her companion, Horst Kettner told the on-line service for the German personality magazine Bunte. \"Her heart simply stopped,\" Kettner said.\u003cbr/\u003eA tireless innovator of film and photographic techniques, Riefenstahl's career centered on a quest for adventure and for portraying physical beauty. Even as she turned 100 last year she was strapping on scuba gear to photograph sharks in turquoise waters, although had begun to complain that injuries sustained in accidents over the years, including a helicopter crash in Sudan in 2000, had taken their toll and caused her constant pain.\u003cbr/\u003eDespite critical acclaim for her later photographs of the African Nuba people and of undersea flora and fauna, she spent more than half her life trying to live down the films she made for Hitler and for having admired the tyrant who devastated Europe and all but eliminated its Jews.\u003cbr/\u003eEven as late as 2002, Riefenstahl was investigated for Holocaust denial after she said she did not know that Gypsies taken from concentration camps to be used as extras in one of her wartime films later died in the camps. Authorities eventually dropped the case, saying her comments did not rise to a prosecutable level.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking to The Associated Press just before her 100th birthday on Aug. 22, 2002, Riefenstahl dramatically said she has \"apologized for ever being born\" but that she should not be criticized for her masterful films.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't know what I should apologize for,\" she said. \"I cannot apologize, for example, for having made the film \"Triumph of the Will\" - it won the top prize. All my films won prizes.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBiographer Juergen Trimborn, who wrote \"Riefenstahl: A German Career,\" said Riefenstahl could not apologize because the Nazi films were the centerpieces of her career. \u003cbr/\u003e\"One can't speak about Leni Riefenstahl without looking at her entire career in the Third Reich,\" Trimborn said. \"Her most important films were made during the Third Reich - 'Triumph of the Will,' 'Olympia,' - that's what's she's known for.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRiefenstahl said she had always been guided by the search for beauty, whether it was found in her hypnotizing images of the 1934 Nuremberg rallies with thousands of goose-stepping soldiers and enraptured civilians fawning for their Fuehrer, in her dazzling portrayal of the 1936 Olympic athletes in Berlin, or in her still photographs of the sculpted Nuba men.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I always see more of the good and the beautiful than the ugly and sick,\" Riefenstahl said. \"Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBorn Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl in Berlin on Aug. 22, 1902, she was the first child of Alfred Riefenstahl, the owner of a heating and ventilation firm, and his wife, Bertha Scherlach.\u003cbr/\u003eRiefenstahl's artistic career began as a creative dancer until a knee injury knee caused made her decide to shift her focus to movies.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter she saw one of Arnold Fanck's silent films set in the mountains, Riefenstahl presented herself to him as his new star, and he accepted, as much for her blue-eyed, high-cheekboned beauty as her daredevil spirit.\u003cbr/\u003eShe rock climbed barefoot for the camera and was buried in an avalanche for the death scene in the 1926 film \"Mountain of Destiny.\" Soon, she was making her own films, fairy tales such as \"The Blue Light\" celebrating Germany's Alpine mystique in which she was star, screenwriter and director.\u003cbr/\u003eShe heard Hitler speak for the first time at a 1932 rally and wrote to him - again, offering her talents to a powerful, inspirational man. In her memoirs, Riefenstahl rapturously describes her first impression of Hitler's charisma:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It seemed as if the earth's surface were spreading out in front of me, like a hemisphere that suddenly splits apart in the middle, spewing out an enormous jet of water, so powerful that it touched the sky and shook the earth. I felt quite paralyzed.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAlthough she said she knew nothing of Hitler's \"Final Solution\" and learned of concentration camps only after the war, Riefenstahl also said she openly confronted the Fuehrer about his anti-Semitism, one of many apparent contradictions in her claims of total ignorance of the Nazi mission.\u003cbr/\u003eLikewise, she defended \"Triumph of the Will\" as a documentary that contained \"not one single anti-Semitic word,\" while avoiding any talk about filming Nazi official Julius Streicher haranguing the crowd about \"racial purity\" laws.\u003cbr/\u003eMany suspected Riefenstahl of being Hitler's lover, which she also denied. Nonetheless, as his filmmaker Riefenstahl was the only woman to help shape the rise of the Third Reich.\u003cbr/\u003eShe made four films for Hitler, the best known of which were 'Triumph of the Will' and 'Olympia', a meditation on muscle and movement at the 1936 Berlin Olympic games. Riefenstahl pioneered new artistry in the filming of sports events with \"Olympia,\" one of the most sensual and stunning films ever made. It also presented the Nazis to the world as peaceful and tolerant.\u003cbr/\u003eShe married once, in 1944 to army Major Peter Jacob, but the couple split three years later. She had no children, and her only sibling, Heinz, was killed on the eastern front during World War II.\u003cbr/\u003eRiefenstahl spent three years under allied arrest after the war, some of the time in a mental hospital. War tribunals ultimately cleared her of any wrongdoing but suspicion of being a Nazi collaborator stuck. She was boycotted as a film director and sank into poverty, living with her mother in a one-room apartment.\u003cbr/\u003eShe reclaimed her career in the 1960s when she lived with and photographed the Nuba, a tribe in Sudan who treated her like one of their own. \"I've never laughed so much as I did when living with the Nuba. 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