Videonazis
Philip Purser, 13 June 1991
Hitler’s State Archltecture: The Impact of Classical Antiquity
by Alex Scoble.
Pennsylvania State, 152 pp., £28.50, October 1990,0 271 00691 9 Show More
by Alex Scoble.
Pennsylvania State, 152 pp., £28.50, October 1990,
Totalitarian Art
by Igor Golomstock, translated by Robert Chandler.
Collins Harvill, 416 pp., £30, September 1990,0 00 272806 0 Show More
by Igor Golomstock, translated by Robert Chandler.
Collins Harvill, 416 pp., £30, September 1990,
“... just as well that some other, more grandiose schemes were never realised, to judge by the plans Alex Scobie has assembled in Hitler’s State Architecture. He is a Classics don and his well-founded thesis is that Hitler’s Neoclassical passion was confined to Roman as opposed to Greek models. The aim was to impose order, to dominate, to intimidate. Berlin ... ”
