After the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945, Riefenstahl was jailed by French occupation authorities for helping the Nazi propaganda machine.
Blacklisted as a filmmaker, she turned to still photography even though West German magazines boycotted her work for years.
She gradually rebuilt her reputation with acclaimed pictures of Nuba tribesmen in southern Sudan, and at the age of 72 she took up diving, gaining renown for her underwater studies.
She brought out her first film in half a century last year, just before her 100th birthday -- Underwater Impressions, a 45-minute compilation of footage from the more than 2,000 scuba dives she made in the Indian Ocean between 1974 and 2000.
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