nice to know we weren't mistaken.

was Reich Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment under Adolph Hitler.

The face of evil.

were scenes of large crowds sort of cut and edited to look like one enormous rally when it really was only about 1/3 the size of the real ones.

I watched a documentary about film director George Stevens (Giant, A Place In The Sun, Shane, etc.) last week and learned that the super famous film most of us remember was not made by Goebbels but by Leni Riefenstahl....

"American film director George Stevens was moved to join the military after viewing Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda film, Triumph of the Will. He was not admiring its message, but rather was horrified by its power and the influence it could wield".

He understood the power of film and his work during WWII was amazing.

of knowing how important film documentation would be needed as proof of crimes after the war. They used his films as evidence at the Nuremberg Trials.

Not many like him any more.

I still don't know how he pulled off D-Day.

Weather was lousy. Men were all sea sick from sitting in rocking boats for days.
Weather was too bad to release them across the channel.
Ike finally said we gotta do it now.

And Hitler knew nothing about the invasion.
That was an an intelligence miracle on the part of the US allies.

during the landing. I can easily see tRump doing the same thing and his staff would be afraid to wake him.

"Adolf Hitler was asleep when the D-Day invasion began, and his subordinates hesitated to wake him and order reinforcements, leading to crucial delays in the German response. The Fuhrer remained asleep until around noon, by which time the initial Allied landings were well underway, and he initially dismissed the invasion as a feint before eventually agreeing to send in the Panzer divisions.
Hitler was at his residence in the Bavarian Alps, and the evening before D-Day, June 5, 1944, had been a relaxed, almost festive one.
His staff had received strict orders not to disturb him for any reason. German commanders in the invasion area requested permission to move Panzer forces but were delayed by the reluctance to wake him. When Hitler did wake up, he still believed the invasion was a diversionary tactic and initially refused to commit reinforcements."