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Starring: Rolf Arsenius, Bruno Ganz Director: Peter Cohen MPAA Rating: UNRATED
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Based on the interesting theory that the Third Reich was merely an expression of its architects' desire to create, Peter Cohen has written, directed, produced and edited this compilation documentary. Many of Hitler's top guns were not only well educated but had creative bents - Hitler was a frustrated watercolorist, Goebbels had an unpublished novel and play to his credit and von Sitach was a poet. It is the contention in this "documentary" that the creative urges of these men are what drove them to try to reshape their entire environment into their own unique vision of a perfect society - helping to design everything from the clothing worn to the houses built, and molding even the surviving humans into their own monocular vision of mankind by labeling anything different than the Aryan mold as diseased and degenerate. A unique postulate as to the origins of the Nazi movement, Cohen fails to account for the fact that there were numerous antecedents when Hitler was young who were equally racist and bigoted and their politics can be easily seen in Hitler's own molding and shaping into the monster he became. However, the notion that for Hitler and his group aesthetic considerations often outweighed the mundane and pragmatic is borne out by much of the evidence presented in this documentary, making it worthwhile as a historical perspective from a slightly different angle than usually seen when discussing the rise of the Third Reich. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and accurate, Jan 15 2009
By Michael W. Perry "Michael W. Perry, author of... (Author of Untangling Tolkien, Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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Many movies and documentaries about Nazism fail because the their view of history is implausible. To really grasp the nature of Nazism, you need to understand why tens of millions of Germans found it appealing. This documentary does precisely that.

When we view Nazism today, we see nothing but violence and destruction. When many Germans looked at it in the 1930s, they saw a government interested in filling their lives with beautiful art, proud new buildings, and vigorous, healthy young people. In the broad sense, this is the "architecture" this documentary is discussing. For Nazism, German society was something to be built into a thing of beauty and strength.

William Shirer, a correspondent for CBS Radio, noted the last when he covered the German advance into France. The prisoners the Germans captured, he said, were pitiful specimens of young men--pale, weak and unfit for the physical demands of war. Doing the Depression, Britain and France did nothing to help their young men grow up healthy and strong. In contrast, the German soldiers were fit and tanned from an outdoor life.

But as this documentary shows, Nazism's obsession with beauty and strength had a dark side. Eugenics, an fad popular among progressive intellectuals in other countries, became a controlling principle in Germany. In 1933, the nation began to sterilize Germans it regarded as "unfit." In 1935, it legalized abortion for them. In 1939, it began a euthanasia program to rid the nation of those already born. It's hatred of Jews, Poles and Slavs was merely an extension of policies that had already been applied to the German people themselves. In fact, the mass murder of Jews used techniques, including gas chambers disguised as showers, that had been developed and refined for the euthanasia program.

I have only one criticism of this documentary. Throughout there is an attempt to portray Hitler as a third-rate artist. That's true, but the implication that no first-rate artist could be as evil as Hitler is false. Even Hitler's foes admitted that he was an extremely talented speaker. Talent in that area didn't keep him from being evil nor would have talent in art.

--Michael W. Perry, editor of Dachau Liberated : The Official Report
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1.0 out of 5 stars Drink lots of coffee before watching this., July 2 2004
By Philip W. Logan "scouts87_90" (Centreville, VA. United States) - See all my reviews
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I am a student of third reich history and when I heard of the release of this film I managed to see it at an independent theatre. While there is a great deal of interesting documentary footage and fair analysis this has got to be about the dullest documentary I have ever seen. There is no style to the directing or editing. The narration is even worse. The good points are negated by the overall stale production. This is certainly not a film to even rent let alone purchase. (Unless you are an insomiac.)
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4.0 out of 5 stars NAZISM AN ART? INTERESTING PREMISE, BOGGED BY MONOTONY, July 17 2003
By Shashank Tripathi (Gadabout) - See all my reviews
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Google lists nearly 200 films about Adolf Hitler, most of them documentaries such as Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will and Fuhrer: Rise of a Madman.

The Architecture of Doom was perhaps the first to propose the notion that Hitler embraced the art of politics after failing as a painter, suggesting that Nazism was a reflection of the dictator's perverse aesthetic tastes. In its deconstruction of the Nazi movement, the movie is novel and shows an interesting, perhaps true, perspective.

But what minor grouse I have is with the narrative, which is just shy of 2 hours or so and sports a frequent monotone of showing Nazi art. Yet, thankfully, it doesn't detract substantially from the intriguing perspective that Hitler's whole pet project was perhaps more of a dogged pursuit of an aesthetic.

This documentary is definitely worth a watch if you are interested in the Third Reich in any way.

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5.0 out of 5 stars masterpiece.
This is the best documentry i ve ever seen aboat the Third Reich. It really shows the core, what it is all aboat. A Masterpiece is really a very good name for this movie.
Published on April 25 2003 by Karl Henrik Stridh

5.0 out of 5 stars How A Longing For Beauty Turned Ugly
I've seen a lot of documentaries about Nazi Germany, and this one is as good as it gets. By the end, I definitely had a deeper understanding of that ultimate question: "How... Read more
Published on Mar 19 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and Disturbing
You get a pretty good insight in this fascinating documentary on what made Hitler tick. Hitler appeared to only know other races basically through what he had read & heard. Read more
Published on Jan 11 2003 by Peter J. Wedesweiler

5.0 out of 5 stars A look behind HITLER'S regime
Captures the inner workings of the third reich. A brilliant look behind the scene and the influential aspect of art through propaganda. Read more
Published on Aug 13 2002 by echosprings

3.0 out of 5 stars First half excellent documentary, 2nd half not good
This documentary offers an excellent look at the influence of the arts, and medicine and eugenics on the minds of the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Read more
Published on Mar 4 2002

4.0 out of 5 stars The Architecture of Doom
Gripping discussion of the factors that developed the design innovations that occurred during this era in Germany. Very good even if you know nothing about the subject.
Published on Dec 28 2001 by G

5.0 out of 5 stars GERMAN MEDICINE JOINS HITLER'S ART TO CREATE HELL ON EARTH
Having been a student of the Holocaust and World War II for fifty years, I am always on the lookout for new information or new perspectives. Read more
Published on Jun 4 2000 by F. Sweet

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good
At first I was a little bored with this video because it was a little slow, the narrator was not as good as ones that host History Channel documentaries and the narration script... Read more
Published on Jun 4 2000 by Bjorkfinity

5.0 out of 5 stars Superbly produced, landmark documentary survey.
Taking full advantage of what the DVD format has to offer, The Architecture Of Doom is a superbly produced, critically acclaimed, landmark documentary surveying the inner working... Read more
Published on May 4 2000 by Midwest Book Review

4.0 out of 5 stars Hitler's art-school rejection unleashed monstrous bitterness
At 120 minutes, Architecture of Doom should not deter a sensible, thoughtful viewer from shunning an exhaustively lengthy documentary, with such an imposing title. Read more
Published on Mar 21 2000 by WILLIAM C. GO

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