Albert Spear Jr. at the 2008 Olympics

[Henry]

Without Spielberg's participation, who is 2008's Leni Riefenstahl?


Henry

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http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews+articleid_2413678&title=
Imagine_the_Terror_of.html 

Albert Speer was commissioned by the Chinese government to lay out a
masterplan for the access to the Olympic Green in Beijing. His design
consisted of one impressive avenue connecting the Forbidden City and the
National Stadium in which the opening ceremony will take place.

Speer is indeed the son of the infamous Albert, chief architect to Hitler
and his minister of armaments. Speer Senior had also laid out his signature
axis within Hitler's megalomaniac city 'Welthaupstadt Germania' which,
thankfully, was never realised. So what the father failed to do in Berlin,
his son managed to achieve in Beijing, about 60 years later.


http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2008/08/04/2003419333 

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Like the Beijing Games, the Berlin Olympics were conceived as a coming-out
party. Josef Goebbels' Nazi propaganda machine was fully deployed. Athletic
imagery - used to brilliant effect in Leni Riefenstahl's acclaimed
documentary - appeared to create a link between the Nazis and the ancient
Greeks, and to confirm the Nazi myth that Germans and German civilization
were the true heirs to the
"Aryan" culture of classical antiquity.

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