75 years ago, the Nazis demonstrated what art they considered degenerate

National Socialists closed Bauhaus in 1933.

Munich - The Nazi regime in Germany in the 1930s did not only persecute political opponents and Jews; unsuitable art also became a target. 75 years ago, on July 19, 1937, an exhibition was opened in Munich, where Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda showcased to the public what "degenerate art" (in German Entartete Kunst) is. In the premises of the Archaeological Institute, the audience could see nearly 650 modern works by almost 120 artists.
     Represented there were Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, and other representatives of the avant-garde - surrealists, dadaists, impressionists, cubists, fauvists, and other artists of the "Bolshevik-Jewish" movements, whose works, according to the Nazis, deserved condemnation and destruction.
     The exhibition, originally planned until September, was on display until the end of November 1937. The exhibition then traveled to other German and Austrian cities until 1941, being visited by three million people.