Nazi Germany regulated and controlled the art produced between 1933 and 1945 to ensure they embodied the values they wished to indoctrinate into the German people. ... Thus, art in the Third Reich was merely a form of propaganda that insidiously promoted the superiority of the Nordic race, the need for loyalty and obedience and the invulnerability of the German nation. ... It is an easily accessible work, that the Dadaist Duchamp would label "retinal art", as it is an aesthetically motivated and stylistically anti-modernist piece. ... Hitler said that art should be the "expressions of the soul...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Art Spiegelman, an author, born in 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden, shortly after the end of the World War II. ... It took Art many visits with his father to get the complete story. ... When "Maus" hit the book stores, many people had mixed feelings about a book that told the story of one man's life through the Holocaust in the form of a comic. ... The Boston Globe said, "A brutally moving work of art." ... "Maus" is just an indescribable work of art. ...

• Word Count: 2087
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Spiegelman's, "The Complete Maus," he utilises an animalistic allegory in order to retell his father's story during the Second World War and the Holocaust. The absence of human facial features on the characters, in the graphic novel, raises the issue that the Jewish population of Eastern Europe w...

• Word Count: 960
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These Wagnerites formed so-called academic Wagner societies' which committed themselves to furthering the Master's program of spiritual and social reform'#. ... This was a result of Wagner's belief that ascribes all forms of resistance to his work to imagined Jewish conspiracies; whereas in reality his cause was actively promoted by Meyerbeer, supposedly the chief instigator of these intrigues, until Wagner publicly attacked him'#. Wagner, however, in the case of Jewish connections being useful to his art, had collaborations with men such as Joseph Rubenstein and ...

• Word Count: 2346
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These Wagnerites formed so-called academic Wagner societies' which committed themselves to furthering the Master's program of spiritual and social reform'#. ... This was a result of Wagner's belief that ascribes all forms of resistance to his work to imagined Jewish conspiracies; whereas in reality his cause was actively promoted by Meyerbeer, supposedly the chief instigator of these intrigues, until Wagner publicly attacked him'#. Wagner, however, in the case of Jewish connections being useful to his art, had collaborations with men such as Joseph Rubenstein and ...

• Word Count: 2346
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When he came of the age of career choosing, Adolf wanted to pursue art. ... While living in Vienna, Hitler applied to the school of his dreams; The Vienna Academy of Art. ... Eventually, Adolf is discharged from the army and takes on more responsibility in the German Workers' Party in the form of propaganda. ... A different form of propaganda aimed to serve the same purpose, appeal to the public in a manipulative way. ... The Nazis had infiltrated literature, music, newspapers, art, film, and more. ...

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Nazism and art. ... He therefore formed an alliance with the Nazis to achieve that. ... It is because art has a tremendous influence over society. ... From the ancient time, art had been an inseparable part of human life. ... Till today, the power of art has not diminished yet. ...

• Word Count: 3223
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• Grade Level: High School

After several family problems and his rejection from art school he decided to take a different path in life. ... Hitler had first set off to Vienna to study art; by the time he had left he had learned the ideas of racial hatred, specifically against the Jews, personal neurosis, and saw the flaws in the German government because of the presence of Jews and Slavs. ... Hitler learned to master this art of propaganda from the pamphlets that America and Great Britain used during World War I. ... Soon after the first concentration camps were started to form outside of Berlin. ...

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Many new cultures started to emerge, like jazz, art, music and opera and the theatre. In art, a new form of painting developed (expressionism) with the emphasis on social comment. ... New cultures such as music, theatre, opera and art were expressing the messages that the artists, actors, etc wanted to get across to society. ... Strasser saw nationalism as being a form of racism, and he challenged Hitler to express his views on some of his party's political aims. ...

• Word Count: 1905
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First he formed his anti-semitic political party, next he used propaganda to gain power and spread hatred against Jews, then he created laws to cause uttermost suffering for Jews, and at last he expanded his rule to other European countries. ... Next, Hitler used the art of propaganda to gain renown and to spread anti-semitism. ... He then formed a policy called the Reichstag Fire Decree, which meant he could suspend basic individual rights for Jews and communists, and have Nazis legally intervene into private life. ... Another agency, the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, began to take all forms of ...

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Orff never actually belonged to any Nazi party but his work was considered to be some of the greatest examples of Nazi art, and unlike Shostakovich, Orff never wrote music in praise of his leader or reflected anything to do with Nazi Germany, but his cantatas, which were controversial, were set to German medieval poetry (in Latin and Bavarian dialect), and classical texts by Catullus, Sappho and Euripides in the original languages, along with additional Latin lyrics by the composer himself. ...

• Word Count: 2701
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

And the other exurb is the 25 Points of the Early Nazi Program written in 1920 by Hitler and his associates who formed the National Socialist Party also written somewhere in Germany. ... As much a monster that Adolf Hitler was, he was able to shape a completely battered post war Germany into an economic super power in less than 20 years just by using his art of influence and persuasion. ...

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He believed that "the effective propagandist must be the master of the art of speech, of writing, or journalism, of the poster and of the leaflet. ... He was quick to realize that this new art form could reach a wider audience than books or theatre. ...

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Hitler used it "to control the press as well as all other means of expression-radio, film, art, and literature"(Rhodes 11). ... The Nazi Party filtered their ideals into the people's brains in every form possible. "By the outbreak of the Second World War, Goebbels" Propaganda Ministry had complete control of the press, radio, theater, cinema, the creative arts, music, writing, and art exhibitions"(Rhodes 18). ...

• Word Count: 2387
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The SA was the "most powerful forms of propaganda" used by Hitler to gain his power (347). ... As said in Hitler's writing Mein Kampf, "The art of the poster lies in the designer's ability to attract the attention of the crowd by form and color" (344). ...

• Word Count: 1060
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In 1906, he went to Vienna to seek a career in art but rejected by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Grobman,1990). ... Hitler is the speaker who are forming the concept of the Aryan and opposing the Jews (Nazi Party, 2009). ...

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This belief led to the beliefs that Germans were ultimately superior from birth and together formed the concept of a nation. ... He attributed the world's progress in science, technology, and art almost exclusively to Aryan. ...

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Dictator Adolf Hitler was born in Bran au am Inn, Australia on April 20th, 1889, He had an interest in fine art and showed an early interest in German nationalism. ... During this time people were struggling to make ends meet, some couldn't find employment and Hitler knew that by forming a strong political stance, that he could gain more power. ...

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He wanted to form German Empire in Central and Eastern Europe. ... Everything, that Hitler despised liberalism, intellectualism, pacifism, internationalism, Marxism, modern art, and individualism he attributed to Jews. ...

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After a triumphant arrival of Fuhrer, young men are seen washing in a sensual manner as a celebration of the splendor of Aryan human form. ... The cult of the fallen soldier further promoted national renewal, it became a significant art of German national awareness. It gave substance and body to the solidarity of the living and the fallen which allegedly formed a true nation. ...

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The Schatzstaffel - guard unit or SS were formed as Hitler's personal bodyguards in 1925, they represented the most loyal Nazi SA. ... In April 1934 the Gestapo - Prussia's secret police force, where co-ordinated form Hermann GÖring to the SS. ... German music and art had to be assimilated by the Nazis. ...

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He set many rigid standards upon the people of Germany, especially for art, music, medicine, and poetry. ... He formed the theory that they were attacked by the Devil, a personification of the Jewish people. ... After six marriages, five of the women died at their own hands, all of which a form of suicide. ...

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Hitler formed and organized the SA (Street Army) police, and the SS, a select group of bodyguards dressed in black, that helped to carry out his coercion practices on a national scale. ... Hitler would not have wanted to be the recipient of his own form of "persuasion." ...

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The Holocaust Ann frank History has had a great influence on art, whether it's literature, theatre or cinema. ... Anne writes: Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees: Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn in their bicycles; Jews were forbidden to ride in cars, even their own; Jews were required to do their shopping between 3 and 5 p.m.; Jews were required to frequent only Jewish-owned barbershops and beauty parlors; Jews were forbidden to be out on the streets between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.; Jews were forbidden to attend th...

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It was clear that Germany needed some type of motivation to get itself back on its feet and this came in the form of a charismatic man, Adolf Hitler. ... A common misconception is that Hitler's propaganda "implies nothing less that the art a persuasion, which serves only to change attitudes and ideas" (Welch 5). ... The Germans, as a result of the lack of efficacy and trust, had already formed these ideas. ...

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