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Hitler’s war on art

Hitler and Goebbels take a
tour of the the exhibition

Adolf Ziegler,
the Nazi artist
who Goebbels
A 1914 painting by Adolf Hitler. Hitler was tasked with
rejected from art school in favour of more purging German
imaginative and expressive artists galleries of
‘degenerate’ art
Upon achieving ultimate power, Hitler
was determined to make Germany his
own aesthetic paradise. While prized Nazi i
architects, such as Paul Ludwig Troost
and later Albert Speer, embarked on
transforming Germany into a neoclassical
haven, Hitler was preparing to strike his
vengeful blow upon the art world that hadd
rejected him nearly two decades before.
In September 1933, Hitler had set up
the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and
Propaganda, with Joseph Goebbels at the

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