Synopses & Reviews
Jonathan Petropoulos explores the cultural aspirations of the Nazi political elite by examining both the formulation of a national aesthetic policy and the content of private art collections held by such high-ranking Nazis as Hitler, Goring, Goebbels, Himmler, Speer, and Ribbentrop. He demonstrates that these leaders manipulated public policy and tenets their of own collecting patterns to articulate fundamental tenets of Nazi ideology.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-415) and index.