Re. Herero

[Richard Romeo]

That's a great story, Kurt

When I recently visited Krakow, it was great to see Schlinder's factory-for me, it's very hard to reconcile such beauty with the deeds of the past, pbly not so much different seeing the great old West now and remembering wounded knee, roaming buffalo, and vicious slaughter

 

Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics was written by Frederic Spotts.  Karl May is mentioned as one author that Hitler particularly enjoyed.  Hitler's early posed photos featured in the book (by Heinrich Hoffmann) are very campy. Spotts main theme seems to be that Hitler came to politics reluctantly 

Here's more on the book:

 

A startling reassessment of Hitler's aims and motivations, Frederic Spotts's Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics is an adroitly argued and highly original work that provides the key to a fuller understanding of the Third Reich. Spotts, author of the distinguished Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival, convincingly demonstrates that unlike the traditional biographical view that Hitler was an "unperson" who had no life outside of politics, Hitler's interest in the arts was as intense as his racism-and that he used the arts to disguise the heinous crimes that were the means to fulfilling his ends.

 

Richard 
Interesting. Who wrote it? 

Best 
Kurt-Werner Pörtner.

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