I've been watching a documentary called 'The Architecture of Doom' about how art & artists(mainly failed ones) shaped the Nazi party & Nazi Germany. Hitler being a art school reject, Goebbles having been an author, and some other high ranking Nazi's were also fond of poetry, art, architecture, opera, etc. It is very interesting yet horrifying what those people accomplished using flowery rhetoric & propaganda. They used abstract & avant-garde art to degrade and dehumanize Jews, Gypsies, the mentally ill, Bolsheviks/Socialists, and anyone who did not believe in a "pure Germany". They used film, they used music, they used anything and everything to mold the minds of their public. With the attention to detail those guys paid to what they were going to build in Berlin and Linz no wonder they lost the war. I had no idea guys like Wagner played so big a role in inspiring such an awful person as Hitler.