Editing Nazi Germany (section)

=== Film ===
{{Main|Nazism and cinema}}
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1988-106-29, Leni Riefenstahl bei Dreharbeiten.jpg|thumb|[[Leni Riefenstahl]] (behind cameraman) at the 1936 Summer Olympics|alt=]]

Movies were popular in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, with admissions of over a billion people in 1942, 1943, and 1944.{{sfn|Evans|2005|p=130}}{{sfn|SPIO, Department of Statistics}} By 1934, German regulations restricting currency exports made it impossible for US film makers to take their profits back to America, so the major film studios closed their German branches. Exports of German films plummeted, as their antisemitic content made them impossible to show in other countries. The two largest film companies, [[Universum Film AG]] and [[Wien-Film|Tobis]], were purchased by the Propaganda Ministry, which by 1939 was producing most German films. The productions were not always overtly propagandistic, but generally had a political subtext and followed party lines regarding themes and content. Scripts were pre-censored.{{sfn|Evans|2005|pp=130–132}}

[[Leni Riefenstahl]]'s ''[[Triumph of the Will]]'' (1935)—documenting the 1934 Nuremberg Rally—and ''[[Olympia (1938 film)|Olympia]]'' (1938)—covering the [[1936 Summer Olympics]]—pioneered techniques of camera movement and editing that influenced later films. New techniques such as telephoto lenses and cameras mounted on tracks were employed. Both films remain controversial, as their aesthetic merit is inseparable from their propagandising of Nazi ideals.{{sfn|''The Daily Telegraph'', 2003}}{{sfn|Evans|2005|pp=125–126}}