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TIL that Hitler had all the copies of the first propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl destroyed, simply because it showed him talking closely with disgraced Nazi Ernest Röhm. Hitler had Röhm killed in the Night of the Long Knives. A single surviving print was found in England in the 1990s.

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