Me: Coworker! Do you know what this is?
Coworker shakes their head.
Me: it’s called “Triumph of the Will”. It’s a Nazi propaganda film from 1934. I’m astonished this is in our collection.
Coworker: …okay
Me: George Lucas saw this when he was in film school. You know the throne room sequence from the end of the first Star Wars? Almost identical to a scene from this movie where Hitler is parading around and saluting his soldiers.
Coworker: That’s… creepy.
Me: right? Let’s see here… “Leni Riefenstahl, Adolf Hitler’s hand-picked and favorite film director, worked for much of the Third Reich. She was a pioneer…”
Coworker: she? Wow! Equal opportunity for women. How progressive.
Me: as long as you’re really racist