Rainer Werner Fassbinder was undoubtedly one of the greatest German directors of the post-World War II period. During his fifteen-year career, Fassbinder directed and produced, among his other film works, 40 feature films. Fassbinder was born in a small Bavarian town, Bad Wörishofen, on May 31, 1945 and died presumably of an overdose at the young age of 37 on June 10, 1982. He was the most important German director, actor and screenwriter of the New German Cinema. It continued the tradition of great German films and dealt with Germany's Nazi past, the involvement of the average man in the dictatorship and the tendency to suppress the memory of those years after the Second World War. The political reality and difficult times of the 1920s helped with the rise of the right-wing nationalist party. Adolf Hitler was an avid film fan and by embracing new technologies for his party, such as flying by plane to give speeches in several cities in one day, he realized the potential that existed for Nazi propaganda. His future propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels, a short man with a clubfoot, would eventually control the film industry. Goebbels removed all Jewish involvement in the film business, which resulted in many talented people having to leave Germany (while they could still get out). Likewise, he removed all people who were not in line with the party's official thinking, so many more people, such as Fritz Lang, the director of Metropolis, left. At the beginning of the Nazi era, more propaganda films, such as Leni Riefenstahl's “Triumph des Willens” (Triumph of the Will) about the 1934 Nazi party congress in Nuremberg, in which she glorifies Hitler and the masses paying homage to him , (“Leni Riefenstahl”). Nazi officials noted that in the center of the sheet......xy.clemson.edu/EBchecked/topic/202295/Rainer-Werner-Fassbinder>.Rother, Rainer "Riefenstahl, Leni." Propaganda and mass persuasion: a historical encyclopedia, 1500 to the present. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003. Creed Reference. Network. February 16, 2014.Smith, Duncan "Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1945-1982." Encyclopedia of German Literature. London: Routledge, 2000. Creed Reference. Network. 14 February 2014. Maria Braun's wedding. [Die Ehe der Maria Braun]. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Perf. Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny. Trio Films, 1979. DVD. Thompson, Kristin and David Bordwell. History of cinema, an introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2010. 8. Print.Veronika Voss. [Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss]. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Perf. Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess. Laura Film/Tango Film, 1982. DVD.