As Berlin faced its final collapse under the Soviet siege, a small band of French Waffen-SS volunteers from the Charlemagne Division fought fiercely in the ruins of Nazi Germany’s capital. Against ...

In the dying days of the Second World War, German forces were in full retreat as the Russians approached from the East and ...

Leni Riefenstahl remains a problem to be solved, not because there’s any doubt about who she was, but because we are uncertain as to who we are.

In movies like 'Triumph of the Will' and 'Olympia,' Leni Riefenstahl all but invented the fascist aesthetic. A new documentary indicates that she knew what she was doing.