Berlin, Germany – September 9th: The photographer and filmmaker made famous by her Nazi propaganda films “Triumph of the Will” and “Olympia”, Leni Riefenstahl, died after a bought of cancer as she slept in her Munich home. Riefenstahl has endured continued criticism for her work throughout her life including charges of Holocaust denial (a crime in Germany), and using Gypsies as extras in her film “Lowlands”, and then failing to prevent their internment in a Nazi prison camp. The filmmaker later issued a statement saying she regretted the Nazi persecution of Gypsies, and defended her work saying it was a representation of what was happening in Germany at the time.