Youth and National Renewal "Triumph of the Will," is an exceptional documentary by Leni Riefenstahl, filmed in 1934 and a masterwork of poetic film making. ... The entire film clearly depicts national unity and social unity. ... There are no alarming ideas, intransigent proposals or any indication of the vices that followed party policies, such as execution of Jews and attempted control of the world. ... The film starts with Hitler descending from a plane to an ecstatic applause, the film portrays Hitler's might and how the masses celebrate him as their god. ... In the film, masses move ...

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Most will not just follow the crowd or follow some dictator, because they know better. ... In addition to the newspapers, the film industry was also very closely supervised. ... Karl Ritter, a fanatical Nazi, film director, glorified death in battle in his films (Rhodes 21). ... "The effect of these films was inordinate. ... Under Allied interrogation, they revealed the influence these films had had on them"(Rhodes 21). ...

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Press, radio, films- all were carefully supervised to manufacture the illusion that fascism was " the doctrine of the 20th century- Under his dictatorship, the parliamentary system was virtually abolished. ... Mussolini followed the Nazis in adopting a racial policy that led to persecution of the Jews, and the creation of apartheid in the Italian empire. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate