Table of Contents
Introduction vii
Preface xi
Sources xv
Acknowledgements xxi
The Reluctant Dictator
1 The Bohemian Aesthete 3
2 A Philosophy of Culture 16
3 The Grand Paradox 28
The Artful Leader
4 The Artist as Politician 43
5 The Politician as Artist 73
The Artist of Destruction
6 The New Germany and the New German 97
7 Purification by Death 113
The Failed Painter
8 The Struggling Watercolourist 123
9 Forgers and Collectors 138
The Art Dictator
10 The Modernist Enemy 151
11 The Failure of National Socialist Realism 169
12 The Art Collector 187
The Perfect Wagnerite
13 Hitler's Wagner or Wagner's Hitler? 223
14 'Führer of the Bayreuth Republic' 247
The Music Master
15 The Rape of Euterpe 267
16 The Music Patron 277
17 Conductors and Composers 289
The Master Builder
18 Immortality through Architecture 311
19 Political Architecture 330
20 Remodelling Germany 351
21 Aesthetics and Transport 386
Afterword 399
Source Notes 402
Books Cited in Text 437
Index 444