Memorial service honors Riefenstahl
Hundreds of mainly elderly people attended a memorial service Friday for Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler’s official filmmaker and the last of Germany’s famous Nazi-era figures, who died Monday at age 101.
Riefenstahl was admired and condemned for her documentaries that pioneered film techniques but glorified Nazism.
Her coffin, placed in a grand hall at a Munich cemetery until a cremation planned for Monday, was surrounded by candles and two dozen wreaths.
A painting of Riefenstahl stood by the coffin and music from the opera “Tannhaeuser” by Richard Wagner, Hitler’s favorite composer, echoed around the hall where some 500 people gathered.
From Reuters
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