BRYAN FERRY - FERRY SLAMMED FOR NAZI APPRECIATION

FERRY SLAMMED FOR NAZI APPRECIATION

Roxy Music star BRYAN FERRY has provoked outrage by confessing he admires the Nazi propaganda machine. Ferry praised the work of propaganda filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in an interview with German magazine Welt am Sonntag. He said, "My god, the Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight and present themselves. "Leni Riefenstahl's movies and Albert Speer's buildings and the mass parades and the flags - just amazing. Really beautiful." The comments have prompted angry reactions from groups in Germany as well as the British-Jewish community. A journalist for German women's magazine Freundin writes, "This can't be called intellectual humour and it tests even my tolerance when you hear such stupid, crazy and dangerous waffling." However, Ferry's manager Steven Howard dismisses the uproar, saying, "To take offence here is to confuse the aesthetic with the ideological. "To suggest that a certain appreciation of art and architecture that happens to be associated with the Nazi regime means condoning the actions of that regime is illogical."