Nazism in "Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics" |
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Written by <a href='/community/profile/68-danieleaton/'>danieleaton</a>
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Tuesday, 22 October 2002 07:22 |
Article: When Hitler caught the doodle bug , guardian.co.uk
Book: Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics
"It would scarcely be exaggerating to call the Third Reich one vast performance, epitomised by the awe-inspiring if spine-chilling Nuremberg rallies, those epic son-et-lumière shows with their immense choreography - what Goebbels called "a via triumphalis of living bodies". They were more than the usual circuses that tyrannies provide for the masses. As Spotts says, their ultimate purpose "was to fill a void at the centre of National Socialism... unlike Marxism, it offered little that was concrete enough to get hold of. What Hitler provided was ritual in place of belief, or ritual as belief." The form was the content, the medium was the message."
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