Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian come straight from the Nazi playbook
For Hitler, making Germany great again was synonymous with censoring broad swaths of German culture
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● Artists under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany By Jonathan Petropoulos Yale University Press, 424 pages, $40 Nearly 70 years after the end of World War II, newly available archives and probing scholarship are sharpening our perspective on daily life, culture, political infighting, and collaboration and resistance in the Third Reich. Jonathan Petropoulos’s…
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Culture Making a Mockery of Hitler’s Mockery of Degenerate Art
When I looked for the first time at the painting that used to hang above Adolf Hitler’s mantel, I felt weirdly emotionless. It’s a triptych called “The Four Elements,” painted by Adolf Ziegler, and it displays four fair-haired naked women representing fire, water, soil and air. It can currently be viewed in New York City,…
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The Schmooze Slideshow: Departures, Experiments and ‘Degenerate’ Art
Among the Nazis’ persecuted minorities were Jewish and non-Jewish artists, musicians and writers branded “degenerate” by the regime. “Radical Departures: The Modernist Experiment,” an exhibition currently showing at the Leo Baeck Institute/Center for Jewish History in New York, gathers together work by these “degenerate” artists, including Georg Stahl, Samson Schames, David Ludwig Bloch and others….
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