Vanessa Lapa is an Israeli documentary filmmaker known for two films that deal with Nazi war criminals Heinrich Himmler and his colleague Albert Speer.

After her academic studies she started to work at Channel 1 as a researcher for Current affairs programs like "Popolitica" and "Erev Hadash".

[7] She has been working on these diaries for 7 years, searching archives around the world for authentic videos in which he appears, using techniques and technologies designed to clean the dirt that clinged to the footage, and restore their seemingly original soundtrack, to create the movie "The Decent One".

[citation needed] When German TV stations refused to co-finance the project, Austrian investor Martin Schlaff stepped in.

It is about Albert Speer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany, who was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials.

[14] The film was later criticized for not being historical accurate due to changes and additions made in recreating the original 1970s tape conversations with actors.