Why you should care about how Hitler decorated his homes

An article in The Washington Post interviews Despina Stratigakos, interim chair of the Department of Architecture, on her new book “Hitler at Home,” that recounts how Hitler’s inner circle worked throughout the 1930s to reinvent his image from a solitary oddball with few family ties to a statesman of fine taste and morals. “It took me a long time to piece together the story and to understand how (Hitler’s interior designer Gerdy) Troost had been part of a larger propaganda machine to remake Hitler’s image from tyrant to gentleman, and the power she had once possessed as part of his inner circle,” she said. Articles also appeared on New Zealand’s Stuff and the Orange County Register.

Read more:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/27/why-you-should-care-about-how-hitler-decorated-his-homes/

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/72463886/how-hitlers-propaganda-machine-used-interior-design-to-aid-his-rise-to-power

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/hitler-684920-home-image.html