Conquering the Architecture of Death By Kidst Paulos Asrat

Just before the stealthy rise of Hitler, there were many signs in German culture which inadvertently anticipated the annihilating environment that Hitler sought. 

        Expressionist German filmmakers of the 1920s such as Carl Meyer and Friedrich W. Murnau were making symbolic films about their degenerating society and individuals in purely symbolic, rather than realistic, terms.  They built this sense of doom through set designs and lighting.  Structures were on the verge of collapse, or caving in on their inhabitants; shadows and their subjects were misplaced; hallways and corridors were twisted and claustrophobic.  The actual realities of the post World War I inflation, the high unemployment, and the general sting from the losses of the war never figured in the films.

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