The Architecture of Doom

Rolf Arsenius Bruno Ganz German

The film explores the obsession Adolf Hitler had with his own particular vision of what was and was not aesthetically acceptable and how he applied these notions while running the Third Reich. His obsession with art he considered pure, in opposition to the supposedly degenerate avantgarde works by Jewish and Soviet artists, reveals itself to be deeply connected to Hitlers equally subjective and strict ideal of physical beauty and health. A series of socalled degenerate art exhibitions were sponsored in order to depict modernist painting and sculpture as expressions of mental illness and general depravity. Classical art that reinforced Hitlers personal taste, from Roman statuary to Dutch oil paintings, was scavenged from across Nazi occupied Europe.Hitler is shown as an amateur architect, planning new building designs for the Third Reich that express his vision of a Nordic empire to rival those of classical antiquity. He is said to be intimately familiar with the grand opera houses of Europe. He visits Paris with a group of architects and artists who will be tasked with rebuilding Berlin to suit the Nazi aesthetic. Designs for new structures include depictions of the ruins they will make for distant generations. ........

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