The Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change - Google Books

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Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945. Hitler and his followers believed that art and culture were expressions…