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The Last Days of a Nazi Cinematographer Hans Ertl was in a hotel room in 1939 preparing to leave for a film shoot in Chile when the Nazis came for him. But the accomplished 30-year-old German photographer wasn't being arrested; he was being conscripted into the military. For the next six years, he served the Third Reich as "war correspondent" assigned to the Wehrmacht's legendary desert warrior, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who led Germany's North Africa campaign. "He did what he could to survive," Ertl's youngest daughter Beatriz tells me as we sit over a soda and cookies in her living room in Bolivia's capital, La Paz. She is shuffling through old family photos, which might also be deemed a veritable archive of the Nazi era. She hands over images of a uniformed Hans in North Africa and on the set of Leni Riefenstahl's acclaimed documentary film Olympia, which chronicled the 1936 Olympics — for which Ertl was the director of photograph...