Walter Ruttmann

Today is the anniversary of the death in 1941 of German film maker Walter Ruttmann. He is one of the writers credited for the notorious Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will. FilmReference.com has a page on him here where they say,

As Ruttmann did not exhibit a social conscience in his early work, it is perhaps not surprising that, by the end of his life, he had been co-opted as a propagandist. An artist whose work was initially apolitical, Ruttmann neither protested nor went into exile with the advent of National Socialism. Instead, he conformed. His last documentaries were odes to Nazism and Germany's military might.

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Berlin: die sinfonie der grosstadt (silent, 1927):

(also available at the Internet Archive)

Opus 1 2 3 4:

(also available at ubuweb)