Nearly fifty years after the collapse of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, the officially sanctioned art of his National Socialist regime remains largely unknown. Since 1945, few people have seen these controversial works: many were destroyed in World War Two bombings; most of what survived is hidden away, accessible only to scholars. In Art of the Third Reich, Peter Adam--who grew up in Berlin in the Hitler era--has gone back to Germany after years in...

"Droll, poignant, gently mysterious, and always arresting, these photographs of Manhattan scenes and people, of yesteday's irretrievably romantic Paris and Budapest, and of sinuous nudes and celebrated artists mark his genius with the 35mm camera, whose special capabilities he was among the first to exploit."--Page 2 of cover.