In 1932, after Das blaue Licht got some bad reviews, Leni Riefenstahl decried Cancel Culture: It was the Jews who gave her bad reviews, these foreigners simply didn't understand German art and wanted to silence her. Once Hitler comes to power, that'll change!

(Or at least that's what people claimed she said 40 years later when everyone very much wanted to not be her.)

I suppose this is what a character like Riefenstahl deserves: A biographer who both takes her seriously as an artist, and calls bullshit on her refusal to take responsibility for her part in making Hitler look like a rockstar, and on culture's tendency to not want to know - either make someone a scapegoat for everything, or absolve them of everything, as long as Normality is maintained.

The only thing I'm really missing is more on the otherartists who did what she did. What happened to them? Why do we only remember the name Riefenstahl?