{"id":1265,"date":"2012-06-15T19:04:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T01:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2012-06-15T19:04:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T01:04:36","slug":"in-the-news-ghosts-of-olympics-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Ghosts of Olympics past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=1270\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1270\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1270\" title=\"Leni Riefenstahl\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wleni.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wleni.jpg 220w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wleni-110x150.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>With this year&#8217;s London Olympics fast approaching, the topic of previous Olympic Games has garnered much attention in UK newspapers. An article in yesterday&#8217;s <em>Guardian<\/em> by Alex von Tunzelmann focussed on the Berlin Olympics of 1936 and the movie <em>Olympia,<\/em> directed by Leni Riefenstahl.<\/p>\n<p>Actress-turned-movie-director, Leni Riefenstahl, was termed a &#8216;wild woman&#8217; by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels&#8212;largely because he could not control the strong-willed Riefenstahl. Being in charge of every aspect of the German media, films included, Goebbels expected to hold dominion over\/sleep with his leading actresses.<\/p>\n<p>But Hitler liked her, and she liked him. A lot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=1279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1279\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1279\" title=\"movie poster: Olympia\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wolympiamovie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wolympiamovie.jpg 145w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wolympiamovie-82x150.jpg 82w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/><\/a>He met her first at a North Sea beach near Wilhelmshaven, and subsequently showered her with attention; so much so that people assumed they were having an affair. Was she Hitler&#8217;s mistress? reporters asked, when she visited New York.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the truth, her artistic talent was undeniable. She broke new ground as producer, writer, editor and director in the male-dominated arena of film making.<\/p>\n<p>Leni Riefenstahl lived to be 101 years old and was active to the end. She died very shortly after her marriage to her long-term companion&#8212;something that she and the Fuehrer had in common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this year&#8217;s London Olympics fast approaching, the topic of previous Olympic Games has garnered much attention in UK newspapers. An article in yesterday&#8217;s Guardian by Alex von Tunzelmann focussed on the Berlin Olympics of 1936 and the movie Olympia, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1265\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,30,1],"tags":[7,100,97,99,52,98],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-movie","category-world-war-ii","tag-hitler","tag-joseph-goebbels","tag-leni-riefenstahl","tag-olympia","tag-olympic-games","tag-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}