In pictures: Hans Ertl

Hans Ertl played a key role in the making of Olympia, Leni Riefenstahl's film about the 1936 Berlin Olympics which includes celebrated diving scenes.

Ertl was involved in developing new ways of filming sporting sequences.

In his heyday, Ertl was one of Germany's best-known cameramen, and among his innovations were ways of filming underwater.

Ertl also got dramatic aerial shots, skiing off the ski jump with a camera attached.

Ertl continued his propaganda work with the outbreak of WWII, as the official photographer of Field Marshall Rommel in North Africa.

After the war, Ertl, his wife and three daughters moved to South America, settling in Bolivia in 1953.

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