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Hitler's aim was the Aryan super-state, but it was to be expressed as much in Nazi art as in politics. Culture was not only the end, to which power should aspire, but the means of achieving it. This reassessment of Hitler's aims and motivations examines his perverse obsessions and shows how his artistry - expressed in spectacles, festivities, parades, rallies and political dramas, as well as in architecture, painting and music - destroyed any sense of individuality and linked the German people with his own drives. In a wide-ranging argument which covers topics as varied as Wagner's operas and the German Autobahn system, Spotts provides a key to the understanding of the Third Reich which has hitherto been missing in more straightforwardly political and military studies.
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Spotts's study of the Fuhrer's fascination with architecture, painting, sculpture, and music is elegantly composed and richly documented.
A fascinating contribution to our understanding of Hitler's complex, chaotic, and catastrophic personality, and a compelling study of Hitler's artistic policies in the Third Reich.
Written with the erudition of a scholar and the page-turning power of a suspense novelist.
Extraordinary . . . Opens an amazing and instructive window onto the Nazi era and Hitler himself.
Spotts's study of the Führer's fascination with architecture, painting, sculpture, and music is elegantly composed and richly documented.
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A fascinating contribution to our understanding of Hitler's complex, chaotic, and catastrophic personality, and a compelling study of Hitler's artistic policies in the Third Reich.
Written with the erudition of a scholar and the page-turning power of a suspense novelist.
Extraordinary . . . Opens an amazing and instructive window onto the Nazi era and Hitler himself.
Spotts's study of the Führer's fascination with architecture, painting, sculpture, and music is elegantly composed and richly documented.
A radical new interpretation of Hitler’s character and actions which sees a perverted artistry as the driving force behind his career and his hold over the German people.
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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0712667881
- ISBN 13 9780712667883
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages512
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