Filmmaker Peter Cohen postulates a theory that the Third Reich's obsessive pursuit of an ideal society was in part a fulfillment of its leaders' own aborted creative careers. Using archival footage underscoring National Socialism's obsession with purity and order, and contrasting it with the so-called "degenerate" work of the German avant garde, Cohen attempts to draw parallels between Hitler's own subjective aesthetic views and his systematic extermination of millions of European Jews. Wikipedia
Filmmaker Peter Cohen postulates a theory that the Third Reich's obsessive pursuit of an ideal society was in part a fulfillment of its leaders' own aborted creative careers. Using archival footage underscoring National Socialism's obsession with purity and order, and contrasting it with the so-called "degenerate" work of the German avant garde,...