Just watched a trailer for a movie that hasn't been released yet, Max, about a fictional Jewish art dealer who tries to help young Hitler, just back from World War I, to become an artist. Looks good.
Deeply disturbing, but tries to understand how Hitler became Hitler.
I have seen some of Hitler's art, and it was not very good. Nothing at all like what you see in the trailer. Very stiff, lifeless, no humans, just buildings.
Trailer:
movies.go.com
Review:
salon.com
Edit: Hitler's art. He did more than buildings, but I still say he wasn't very good.
hitler.org
Weird site, by the way. It tries to present itself as dispassionate, but has links to Holocaust revisionism.
The most dispassionate view of Nazis I have experienced was the class on the history of National Socialism taught by Dr. Peter Black, chief historian for the Holocaust Museum. He is Jewish, and certainly does not condone the Holocaust or National Socialism, but he does contextualize it in a way that is fair and balanced. |
