Riefenstahl stiffed Balazs and removed his name from the credits

Having made this on a shoestring budget, Riefenstahl couldn't afford to pay her collaborators at the time of production so she promised to pay them afterwards. Which she did. All except for one of them: her Jewish screenwriter Bela Balazs. Although he lived in poverty in Moscow, where he was forced to flee after the Nazis took power, Riefenstahl never paid him a dime. When he filed a lawsuit, she merely turned the case over to leading Nazi propagandist and editor Julius Streicher. While one might forgive Riefenstahl from removing his name from the credits during the Nazi period, her failure to pay him so much as a dime for his efforts is contemptible, as were her later efforts to whitewash the whole incident, claiming that Balazs volunteered to work on the production free of charge.