“… Adolf Hitler was born in 1889. That same year, the German artist Franz von Stuck produced a painting of Wotan leading his wild hunt. Astride a black beast, wielding a sword, and trailed by what looks for all the world like a legion of mutilated corpses, the Germanic berserker rages across the sky. When we look at the painting now, we find that the god’s face looks strangely … familiar …”
