[Hitler] envisaged Linz as the future seat of the new German "Kultur", and lavished all his limited pictorial talent and architectural training on a vast project which would realize this ambition... [He] devoted a disproportionate amount of time and energy, for a chief of state, to the plans for Linz, personally creating the architectural scheme for an imposing array of public buildings, and setting the formula for an art collection which was to specialize heavily in his beloved, mawkish German school of the nineteenth century.His private library, discovered by the American Army deep in Austria, contained scores of completed architectural renderings for the Linz project...