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BigmanPigman

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7. I read a while ago that the propaganda films
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 08:13 PM
6 hrs ago

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".

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