Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics Author:Frederic Spotts A startling reassessment of Hitlers aims and motivations, Frederic Spottss Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics is an adroitly argued and highly original work that provides the key to a fuller understanding of the Third Reich. Spotts, author of the distinguished Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival, convincingly dem... more »onstrates that unlike the traditional biographical view that Hitler was an "unperson" who had no life outside of politics, Hitlers interest in the arts was as intense as his racismand that he used the arts to disguise the heinous crimes that were the means to fulfilling his ends.« less