Germany, Oh Germany

Some interesting stuff in the Wilson Quarterly on Germany, none of it connected to the war...well, not the most recent one, at least. I say that because one of the articles is on Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's director, marking her 100th birthday.

This brings up a fascinating review in the magazine Forward on the aesthetic drive behind Hitler and the Nazi Party. It contains, appositely enough, an analysis of the beginning frames of Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will, and argues that they are an aesthetic reshaping of a Messianic message.

Interesting stuff.