1. Nazi Art
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. The notion of "volk" (people) and "blut und boden" (soil and blood) was championed in paintings to glorify an idealized rural Germany and instill a sense of "superiority" in the Nordic physicality. Highly veristic and asthetisized works romanticized everyday subjects and reiterated redundant stereotyped Nazi ideals of the human body and its purposes in the Reich. Paintings of Adolf Hitler valorized and his image to heroic status, ev...
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