James Young

The Terrible Beauty of Nazi Aesthetics

Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics By Frederic Spotts Overlook, 456 pages, $37.50. —– Something in the study of Adolf Hitler repels us. Perhaps it is our own traditional reflex to blot out the memory of our enemies (or to remember them as blotted out, as we do Haman and Amalek) or just the queasy…