The Art of the Third Reich

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The Art of the Third Reich

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The Artist in 1934
The War Machine revving up
The Industrialist Profiteer
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Socialist Realism
Art of the People
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In 1937 Der Fuhrer gave a speech in Munich
condemning Degenerate Art and linking it to the
Jewish community.
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while the cultural collapse was neither seen nor
understood by the vast majority of our people....
To begin with 1. The circle of those who
are consciously occupied with cultural matters is
by nature not nearly as large as the number of
those who have to deal with economic matters. 2.
On these cultural grounds, more than on any
others, Judaism had taken possession of those
means and institutions of communication which
form, and thus finally rule over public opinion.
Judaism was very clever indeed, especially in
employing its position in the press with the help
of so-called art criticism and succeeding
not only in confusing the natural concepts about
the nature and scope of art as well as its goals,
but above all in undermining and destroying the
general wholesome feeling in its domain....
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I will therefore confess now, in this very hour,
that I have come to the final inalterable
decision to clean house, just as I have done in
the domain of political confusion, and from now
on rid the German art life of its phrase-mongering
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I want to forbid these pitiful misfortunates who
quite obviously suffer from an eye disease, to
try vehemently to foist these products of their
misinterpretation upon the age we live in, or
even to wish to present them as Art.
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Grosz, 1937, his view, Interregnum
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Art is a sublime mission that obliges one to
fanaticism
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Hitlers House of German Art (Troost, arch.)
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Signed and dated Felix Nussbaum 1940 The
Camp A Belgian Jew painted to console himself
before being sent to Ausschwitz for annihilation
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German workers 1940
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War
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Nazi Art Debuts at the Berlin Olympics in 1938
No innocent echo of Athens
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Which is the MORE degenerate ART ?