PHOTOGRAPHS taken during the shooting of a controversial film by Hitler’s favourite film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, go on sale this week in Britain.

FILM-MAKER Leni Riefenstahl, reputed to be Adolf Hitler's lover and whose hypnotic depiction of the German dictator's Nuremberg rally, Triumph of the Will, was renowned and despised as the best propaganda film ever made, has died, aged 101.

Nazi-era filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, whose hypnotic depiction of Hitler’s Nuremberg rally, Triumph of the Will, was renowned and despised as the best propaganda film ever made, has died.