The idea that the Nazi propaganda movement is in effect a distortion of Romanticism's inward effect, ties in well with some of the strongest artistic history surrounding Romanticism.
Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gerhard_von_K%C3%BCgelgen_portrait_of_Friedrich.jpg
This is Caspar David Friedrich, a German Romantic painter and one of the most famous of his style.
There is a strong relation between this man and the Nazi's empowering reign over society. During the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s there was a resurgence in Friedrich's popularity, soon to be followed by a sharp decline as his paintings were, by association with the Nazi movement, misinterpreted as having a nationalistic aspect. It was not until the late 1970s that Friedrich regained his reputation as an icon of the German Romantic movement and a painter of international importance.
Chris
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