David Bowie’s Nazi fascination resurfaces after he once declared: ‘I’d have made a good Hitler’

David Bowie’s interest in Nazism has been investigated in a new book nearly a decade after his death.

Often regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, the performer rose to fame with his single Space Oddity in 1969 and launched his alter ego Ziggy Stardust a few years later.

Over the subsequent decades, he won six Grammys and four Brit Awards, and during his lifetime, sold over 100 million worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time.

He died aged 69 in 2016 after being diagnosed with liver cancer 18 months earlier.

Now, nine years on, a new book is looking into a side of the musician that many will be shocked to discover.

This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich delves into how – and why – so many of the