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KENT, England, March 13 (Reuters) - An album containing never-before-seen candid photos of German Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler and party members will be auctioned on Wednesday, according to the ...
Fearing similar litigation, auction website eBay enacted new guidelines regarding the sale of Nazi memorabilia in 2003. eBay's policies prohibit items relating to Nazi media propaganda, items made after 1933 that contains a swastika, Nazi reproduction items such as uniforms, and all Holocaust-related products. Memorabilia such as coins, stamps ...
Hitler dismissed the jury and appointed his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann to make a new selection. [5] In a diary entry of 4 June 1937, Goebbels conceived the idea of a separate exhibition of works from the Weimar era, which he called "the era of decay. So the people can see and understand."
File:Hitler in the Odeonsplatz Munich 2 August 1914 by Heinrich Hoffmann.jpg File:Hitler with other German soldiers.jpg File:Hitler, Göring, Goebbels and Hess.jpg
BERLIN (AP) - A 100-year-old watercolor of Munich's old city hall is expected to fetch at least 50,000 euros ($60,000) at auction this weekend, not so much for its artistic value as for the ...
The ERR (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg) was ordered to empty and loot museums to gather art for Hitler's growing collection. [4] This organization told the people they were taking the art into safe keeping but in reality, these painting were being used in museums across Germany as well as Hitler and other official's use. [5]
During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an "insult to German feeling", un-German, Freemasonic, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as degenerate artists ...
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