Steven Bach justifies his new biography of Leni Riefenstahl by virtue (if virtue comes into it) of a cache of new material which he charmed out of Peggy — ‘we quickly became first-name friends’ — Wallace, whose 1975 doctoral dissertation at USC led her to record hours of interviews with Hitler’s pet film director. The result is a detailed tombstone to the greater glory and infamy of the legendary maker of The Triumph of the Will and Olympia, in which fabrications and re-shoots are edited with apparent seamlessness into what ‘really happened’, as have been their director’s accounts of her actions and motives as the Nazis’ pet flick-chick.
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