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I'm back reading Vikings by Neil Price, I left it by half a couple of months ago now I'm close to finishing it. I also started “The R*pe of Europe” by Lynn H. Nicholas, is a book about the nazi censorship and theft of art during WW2 and the years preceding it. So far I only read the first chapter but is hilarious how Nazi definitions of “degeneracy” came down to Hitler's personal tastes (or lack of it) in art, he hated cubism, expressionism, impressionism, etc. One particular artist, Emil Nolde was an expressionist painter and a nazi sympathizer, he spent years licking nazi asses only to be cucked by them and forbidden to paint because “expressionism is degenerate”. I also thought the whole “Degenerate Art Exhibition” (which included paintings by Picasso and Van Gogh) was hilarious considering it got the double of attendance as the “Good German Art exhibition”, chuds eternally BTFO 
. I think I might write an effort post on it after finishing that book.
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I read a book about Central and Eastern Europe in the interwar period a few years ago and the author said much the same thing about Nazi Germany's art policy-that it somehow
extolled works and styles that Hitler liked and copied when painting 
He said something similar about Stalin's musical taste (folk music) being reflected in Soviet-pushed works
Honestly though if I was a dictator my personal tastes would also dictate what I would want supported by the government. Art policy is just another aspect of that
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Goebbels actually liked Nolde and even bought some watercolors from him to decorate his house, then he was told to take them out lmao. Hitler had a very personal hate boner for modern art which probably came from being rejected by the Vienna Fine Arts Academy so a lot of policy making about art was decided by him alone. Göring on the other hand came up with the idea of selling the “degenerate” artworks to make money out of it before the war, then during the war he would become one of the main beneficiaries of the looting.
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