Hitler's Hit Parade

[Richard Romeo]

I read that.
U may enjoy a recent biography of Speer that came out a year or so ago:
lots of info on his relationship with Hitler and their ideas on
architecture

Richard 


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Wright AIA [mailto:mwaia at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:41 AM
To: Jeremy Osner; Christine Karatnytsky; Richard Romeo; Dave Marc
Fischer; David Feldman
Subject: Re: Hitler's Hit Parade

Howdy all
I'm reading "Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics", which examines his
relationship to the cultural life of Germany. I'm just getting started
with it, but it looks as though Spotts is going to argue that Hitler's
relationship to the arts was far more than utilitarian, and even
(perhaps) that Hitler might have convinced himself that the physical
destruction of the Reich was a clearing of the decks for his stupendous
urban schemes. As not altogether a bad thing, in other words. He
directed his architects in detail, and many buildings credited to
Troost or Speer were probably Hitler's designs.

Mark

--- Jeremy Osner <anacreon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you guys heard of this movie, now playing at Film Forum? It
> sounds pretty amazing. In his review
>
(http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2005_01_09_alicublog_archive.html#1105340
42524225051
> ), Roy Edroso says: "Hitler's Hit Parade is so artfully far from
> propaganda that I can honestly say, if you didn't know who the Nazis
> were going in, the film would give you an honestly bad impression of
> them. At a time in which the distinction between truth and lies
> appears to be growing alarmingly fungible, that's a very high
> recommendation."
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> -- 
> http://www.readin.com/blog/blog.asp
> 


		
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