William Vaughan is a lecturer in the Department of the History of Art at University College, London. His book, German Romanticism and English Art, was published last year.
My title is intended to be quadruply functional: the four books raise four interpenetrating problems – and not one problem per book either. That Hitler himself remains an incurable problem...
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