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Although not a member of the Country wide Socialist Party, Leni Riefenstahl was the film-maker darling of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. First an effective dancer and celebrity in Germany, she became more notorious when she produced and aimed Triumph of Beliefs and Triumph of the Will, the chilling documentaries about Nazi Party congresses at Nuremberg. Glenn Morris was an All-American farm boy from tiny Simla, Colorado, as well as a former college football star and university student body leader at the institution now known as Colorado Point out University. In the 1936 Olympics, he acquired the decathlon, making him the label "the world's very best athlete." On the list of American heroes at the Berlin Games, he was considered second only to Jesse Owens, who acquired four platinum medals. Riefenstahl and Morris: An improbable couple? Perhaps, however in her 1987 memoirs, the German filmmaker belatedly verified she experienced an affair with the American athlete during the filming of Olympia, Riefenstahl's documentary about the Berlin Games. In fact, she portrayed it as a lot more when compared to a dalliance, expressing that she experienced dreamed of marrying Morris and that he broke her heart and soul. Morris, who continued to Hollywood, the Country wide Football Category, and military services service, spoke sparingly of the relationship, but mused late in life that he "must have stayed in Germany with Leni." In Olympic Affair, writer Terry Frei converts to historical fiction in a novel researched in quite similar fashion as his widely praised works of non-fiction, including Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming and Third Down and a Conflict to Go. Using deduction, creativeness and narrative skill to augment recorded truth (as well as debunk misconceptions parroted for many years), Frei instructs the story of their ill-fated affair...and beyond.
