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Featuring a new introduction by the author. A starling reassessment of Hitler's aims and motivations, Frederic Spotts' Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics is an adroitly argued and highly original work that provides a key to fuller understanding of the Third Reich. Spotts convincingly demonstrates that contrary to the traditional…
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Spotts tells a story that carefully documents Hitler’s long fascination with aesthetics. This is a side of the Fuhrer which is fascinating and, according to Spotts, something that shaped his conduct of the Second World War.
Hitler had long focused his attention on Italy and especially the artworks of Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples. In 1940 he established the Einsatzstab Reichleiter Rosenberg to seize artworks across Europe to fulfill his plans to create a Fuhrer Museum in Linz, Austria which would be filled with Europe’s greatest treasures with many of them to be taken from Italy.
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