Hans Ertl (21 February 1908, Munich, Germany–23 October 2000, Chiquitania, Bolivia) was a German mountaineer and cinematographer.
He was a camera man during the Nazi era, also known as "Hitler's photographer". After the war he resettled in Bolivia and became a farmer. He did some filming in Bolivia but ceased after his film and tractor fell through a wooden bridge. He was the father of Marxist guerrilla Monika Ertl and supposedly a lover of Leni Riefenstahl. Though he would never return to Germany, days before his death he asked his daughter to send him a bag of German soil. Hans died in 2000, he was buried on his farm which is now a museum.[1][2]
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