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When Hitler’s national Socialists came to power in January of 1933, they believed they stood at the very edge of history, poised to redirect the nation to fit the grooves of an envisioned Aryan future. Peter Fritzsche, ‘Nazi Modern’ (1996)1 Even in art, where Hitler ensured that every product of the leading modernist movements of the day was swept off the walls of German galleries and museums, the massive, muscular figures sculpted by Arno Breker and his imitators spoke not of traditional human forms, but of a new type of man, physically perfect and ready for violent action. Richard Evans, The Third Reich in Tower (2005)2
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Peter Fritzsche, ‘Nazi Modern’, Modernism/modernity 3.1 (1996), pp. 1–21.
Richard Evans, The Third Reich in Power 1933–1939 (London: Allen Lane, 2005), p. 708.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, trans. Ralph Mannheim (London: Pimlico, 1992), p. 114.
Ian Kershaw, Hitler. 1889–1936: Hubris (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), pp. 30–1.
Carl Schorske, ‘Politics in a New Key. An Austrian Trio’, in Fin-de-Siácle Vienna. Politics and Culture (New York: Vintage Books, 1981).
Brigitte Hamann, Hitler’s Vienna (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 78–82.
Karl Willy Straub, Die Architektur im Dritten Reich (Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Wedekind, 1932).
Stephanie Barron, Degenerate Art. The Fate of the Avant-garde in Nazi Germany (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1991).
Peter Adam, Arts of the Third Reich (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992), p. 9.
See David Freedberg, The Power of Images. Studies in the History and Theory of Response (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989).
Peter Osborne, Philosophy in Cultural Theory (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 60–1.
Frederic Spotts, Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics (London: Pimlico, 2000), p. 387.
Eric Rentschier, The Ministry of Illusion. Nazi Cinema and its Afterlife (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), p. 57.
Julius Evola, II Cammino del Cinabro (Milan: Vanni Scheiwiller, 1972), p. 192.
Guillaume Faye, L’Archéofuturisme (Paris: L’/Encre, 1998).
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Griffin, R. (2007). The Modernism of Nazi Culture. In: Modernism and Fascism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596122_11
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