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Chapter 7
Arts and Culture
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Nazi Germany (1933-1945)
Chapter (7/13)
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Hitler’s Watercolor of Ruins (1919)
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Excerpts about Culture (1925–26)
Correspondence between Wilhelm Furtwängler and Joseph Goebbels about Art and the State (April 1933)
The Book Burning: Report by Louis P. Lochner, Head of the Berlin Bureau of the Associated Press (May 10, 1933)
Against the Un-German Spirit: Book-Burning Ceremony in Berlin (Image 1) (May 10, 1933)
Against the Un-German Spirit: Book-Burning Ceremony in Berlin (Image 2) (May 10, 1933)
The Architect Paul Ludwig Troost with Hitler and Gauleiter Adolf Wagner before a Model of the House of German Art (1933)
The Victory of Faith [Der Sieg des Glaubens], Film Poster (1933)
Hitler and Urban Planning in Berlin: Minutes of the Meeting in the Reich Chancellery (March 29, 1934)
Street and Square Name Changes in German Cities after 1933
Carl von Ossietzky as Prisoner in a Concentration Camp (c. 1935)
Nazi Film Review: “The Audience is by No Means as Foolish” (August 26, 1934)
Max Liebermann, Self-Portrait (1934)
Lion Feuchtwanger, “Thou Shalt Dwell in Houses Thou Hast Not Builded” (March 20, 1935)
Extracts from the Manual of the Reich Chamber of Culture (1937)
Mass Production of Hitler Busts (1937)
Hitler’s Speech at the Opening of the House of German Art in Munich (July 18, 1937)
First “Great German Art Exhibition”: “Works that are Setting the Direction of German Art” (July 18, 1937)
Guide to the “Degenerate Art” Exhibition (1937)
Degenerate Art: Exhibition Guide (1937)
Degenerate Art: “Take Dada Seriously! – It’s Worth It” (1937)
Degenerate Art: “German Peasants – From a Jewish Perspective” (1937)
Degenerate Art: Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s Large Kneeling Woman (1937)
Storage Room in Niederschönhausen Castle for Confiscated Works of Degenerate Art, including Works by Pablo Picasso and Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1937)
Storage Room in Niederschönhausen Castle for Confiscated Works of Degenerate Art, including Works by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Paul Gauguin (1937)
Sculpture by Joseph Thorak on the Berlin Reich Sports Field (1937)
“Degenerate Music”: Title Page of the Exhibition Guide (1938)
Popular entertainment: Hallo, Janine (1939)
Hitler and his Entourage view the Second “Great German Art Exhibition” (July 10, 1938)
Second “Great German Art Exhibition”: View of the Galleries in the House of German Art (July 10, 1938)
Entrance Gates at Buchenwald (1955)
Postage Stamps Featuring Nazi Architecture (1936)
The Fundamentals of German Radio Programming (August 1938)
Radio Use in Germany, 1929-1941
Letter by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner to the Prussian Academy of Art (July 12, 1937)
Joseph Goebbels, Ten Principles for the Creation of German Music (May 28, 1938)
Zeppelin Field and Grandstand on the Nazi Party Congress Grounds in Nuremberg (1938)
Gottfried Feder, The New City (1939)
Model of the “World Capital Germania,” Following Plans by Albert Speer (1939)
The New Reich Chancellery, Designed by Albert Speer (c. 1940)
Modernist Design on the Cover of Neue Linie Magazine (March 1935)
Hitler Applauding at a Performance Conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler at the Berlin Philharmonic (1939)
“Wunschkonzert” Radio Show Propaganda Publication (December 1940)
Symphony Concert in Hanover (1940/41)
Leni Riefenstahl with the 14th Army Corps in Poland (September 1939)
Christian Bock, “What are People Reading?” A Questionnaire in Berlin Book Stores (1940)
Working Maidens, Painting by Leopold Schmutzler (1940)
Jew Süß, Film Stills (1940)
Thomas Mann in the Studio of an American Radio Station (c. 1940)
Thomas Mann, “German Listeners!” (July 1942)
Trailer for Die grosse Liebe (1942)
Jürgen Petersen, “Albert Speer – a German Master Builder” (1942)
Report on Nazi Art Theft in Occupied Europe (1940–1944)
Artworks Stored in a Potash Mine in Merkers (April 15, 1945)
Wartime Art Theft: Hermann Göring’s Art Collection (1945)
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