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Article: Hitler wanted a career in art but had to settle for barbarism.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 16, 2003
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Byline: Stephen Goode, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The first photograph in Frederic Spotts excellent book, "Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics," shows Adolf Hitler from his right side. He's seated on a wooden chair, leaning slightly forward, his gloves clutched in his left hand. His attention is focused on a model of his home town of Linz. It's not as Linz really is, but like it will be when it is transformed into the cultural center of Europe, for that is what the Fuhrer plans to do with this provincial Austrian city.
Linz will surpass Vienna, the city Hitler has hated ever since his days there as a failed artist. Along with Berlin, Hamburg, and ...