Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker who was a favourite of Adolf Hitler, has died at the age of 101.
Although she was never a member of the Nazi party, Riefenstahl's two major films - 'Triumph of the Will' (1935) and 'Olympia' (1938) - were funded by and glorfied Nazis.
At the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal after WWII she was labeled a sympathizer rather than an activist.
Lauded by Hitler, she photographed the annual Nazi Party rally in 1934 for 'Triumph of the Will'.
Her landmark film, 'Olympia', was shot at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
After the war, Riefenstahl continued her quest to document and photograph the body beautiful. She was still working as an underwater photographer well in to her nineties.
According to the German online magazine Bunte, her companion Horst Kettner said that the controversial director had "quietly fallen asleep" on Monday at her home in Bavaria.
