CHAPTER 32––The Twilight Dynasty Even as Max helped people ... (1937)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
Regardless of whether a German Jew was observant or not, he concluded, “today he is a Jew, with all the emotional barriers, all the problems and cares, which the times inflict upon him!”3 The speech received extended applause. Even as Max oversaw plans for the cultural center, Goebbels dispatched a goon squad through German museums to cull the most blatant examples of “Bolshevik-Jewish” art for display at a special Munich “horror show.” When the “Degenerate Art” exhibition opened there in July 1937, it featured paintings by Beckmann, Chagall, Kandinsky, Kokoschka, Nolde, Grosz, and other artists reputedly perverted by the Jewish spirit. By the following spring, the Nazis had “cleansed” German museums of this “Jewish garbage,” confiscating sixteen thousand works.
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