Though the artworks covered here have been recovered, and some returned to the descendants of their rightful owners, it is worth remembering that over 30,000 pieces of art are still missing..
Created at the heart of the Nazi regime by Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda, the document records the confiscation of more than 16,000 works of art which the Nazis deemed 'degenerate'..
Approximately 20 percent of the art in Europe was looted by the Nazis, and there are well over 100,000 items that have not been returned to their rightful owners.
The majority of what is still missing includes everyday objects such as china, crystal, or silver..
Approximately 20 percent of the art in Europe was looted by the Nazis, and there are well over 100,000 items that have not been returned to their rightful owners.
The majority of what is still missing includes everyday objects such as china, crystal, or silver..
During the Nazi Regime, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seized an estimated one fifth of all art in Europe and more than 5 million cultural objects before 1945.
The Nazis established control over the regime and furthered their racist ambitions through stealing art of any cultural or monetary value to them..
At the end of World War II, when Stalin's Red Army entered Berlin, it raided the museums and galleries along the way.
Over 2.5 million items were sent back to the Soviet Union..
Still Missing: the Continued Restitution of Nazi Looted Art
Though the artworks covered here have been recovered, and some returned to the descendants of their rightful owners, it is worth remembering that over 30,000 pieces of art are still missing..
Though the artworks covered here have been recovered, and some returned to the descendants of their rightful owners, it is worth remembering that over 30,000 pieces of art are still missing..
By the end of the Second World War, an estimated 20 per cent of all the art in Europe was in Nazi possession.
Some works were later recovered, but millions of paintings and sculptures, as well as books and archives, were not.
Three-quarters of a century on, fallout from this era still drifts across continents..
A number of Hitler's paintings were seized by the United States Army (some believed to still be in Germany) at the end of World War II.
They were taken to the United States with other captured materials and are still held by the US government, which has declined to allow them to be exhibited..
As for Hitler's own art, he allegedly had his paintings collected and destroyed when he was in power.
But several hundred are known to survive, including four watercolors confiscated by the U.S. military during World War II..
A number of Hitler's paintings were seized by the United States Army (some believed to still be in Germany) at the end of World War II.
They were taken to the United States with other captured materials and are still held by the US government, which has declined to allow them to be exhibited..
Sanctions were created to forbid the exhibition and even the creation of any contemporary art not approved by the Nazi Party; such work was labeled, along with the artists who created it, as “degenerate.” In 1933 this art began to be displayed in defamatory exhibits intended to disparage modern art, and to link the .
The Nazis wanted to rid Germany of art created during the Weimar Republic, the period of 1924–1930, when Germany was a leading European cultural center, especially in the fields of art, cinema, and literature.
Weimar decadence aroused Nazi anger, and Hitler began closing art schools in 1933..
Overview of the role and celebration of Christmas in Nazi Germany
The celebration of Christmas in Nazi Germany included attempts by the regime to bring the Christian religious holiday into line with Nazi ideology.The Jewish origins of Jesus and the commemoration of his birth as the Jewish Messiah was troubling for some members of the Nazi Party and their racialist beliefs.Between 1933 and 1945
Some government officials attempted to remove these aspects of Christmas from civil celebrations and concentrate on cultural pre-Christian aspects of the festival.However
Church and private celebrations remained Christian in nature.
German fascist ideology
The common name in English for National Socialism
Is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany.During Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Europe
It was frequently referred to as Hitlerism.The later related term neo-Nazism is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideas which formed after the Second World War.
Nazi looting in WWII
Nazi plunder was the stealing of art and other items which occurred as a result of the organized looting of European countries during the time of the Nazi Party in Germany.
Movement to revive Nazi ideologies
Neo-Nazism comprises the post–World War II militant
SocialAnd political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazi ideology.Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and racial supremacy
To attack racial and ethnic minorities
And in some cases to create a fascist state.
?II and was extended to areas annexed by Germany
Propaganda of the German Nazi regime
The propaganda of the Nazi regime that governed Germany from 1933 to 1945 promoted Nazi ideology by demonizing the enemies of the Nazi Party
Notably Jews and communists
But also capitalists and intellectuals.It promoted the values asserted by the Nazis
Blut und Boden and pride in the Germanic Herrenvolk.Propaganda was also used to maintain the cult of personality around Nazi leader Adolf Hitler
And to promote campaigns for eugenics and the annexation of German-speaking areas.After the outbreak of World War II
Nazi propaganda vilified Germany's enemies
Notably the United Kingdom
The Soviet Union and the United States
And in 1943 exhorted the population to total war.
