Olympic Affair

Glenn Morris, Colorado farm boy turned “world’s greatest athlete” confessed on his deathbed that he should have stayed with Leni. The Leni—Leni Riefenstahl—legendary filmmaker and darling of Hitler’s Third Reich. They met at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where Leni filmed Olympia, and began a steamy love affair that was the subject of speculation and whispers—even during one of the tensest Olympic Games in history.

Read the first chapter of Olympic Affair here.