Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/10

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leni Riefenstahl Site
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:04 -0500

This gets more and more amazing to me! How about because the people
responsible for BMW and Volkswagen's pre-war and war-time conduct are long
dead or no longer connected to the company? How about because a new
generation of Germans is running those concerns - and Germany - BUT LENI
RIEFENSTAHL IS STILL ALIVE! And what people are promoting, praising, etc. is
HER art, the art produced by one of the outstanding promoters of, and
apologists for, one of the most perverted nation-states in human history.
Artist, sharmist, she was a Nazi apologist bitch - and she should always be
viewed as such, despite the fact that she was an extremely talented film
maker - and self-promoter.

B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Feliciano
di Giorgio
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 1:42 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leni Riefenstahl Site


Tim Atherton wrote:
>
> It is interesting how many of the big industrialists and business people
who
> were closely identified with the Nazi Party and who kept the Nazi war
> machine and coffers afloat, were allowed to be "rehabilitated" after a
short
> while following and continue doing what they always did. Many a lot older
> and more mature at the time of their "misguided association" with Hitler
et
> al. Whereas Riefenstahl has never been allowed to do this.
>
> Why is this so?
>
> Tim A

Because BMW, Volkswagen el al drive the German economy and she is just
an artist?


feli
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