For a number of reasons this to me reads far more like an essay than an encyclopedia article Also unimpressed with this section Speer s style was assimilating the international 1930s style of public architecture which was then being pursued as a modernising classicism This is in direct contrast to Peter Adams s attempts to separate Nazi art from the Zeitgeist and present it as something that can be looked at through only the lens of Auschwitz This is trying to establish by default a thesis that ugly regimes must produce ugly buildings and such regimes are so evil that everything they produce must be evil or third rate The reality was that destroying to build anew was a standard polemical gesture of the Modernist movement and the styles chosen were not unlike the ones being used at the time Source Whose scholarship is this And the Peter Adams link identifies his real name as Peter Adam