Leni Riefenstahl Filming Archie Williams
8/14/1936-Berlin, Germany-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Nazi camera corps bombard a non-aryan Archie Williams, of University of California, a negro who won the Olympic "400" for the US, was the lion of the hour when this photo was made. Under personal direction of Leni Riefenstahl, commisioned by Der Fuhrer himself, to supervise the making of a pictorial record of the Olympiad. A battery of cameras is trained on the negro athlete. Fraulein Riefenstahl is on the ground next to the camera.
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August 14, 1936
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- Adolf Hitler,
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- 1930-1939,
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- University of California,
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