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  2. Art in Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    The images of men, and still more of women, were heavily stereotyped, [40] with physical perfection required for the nude paintings. [41] This may have been the cause of there being very few anti-Semitic paintings; while such works as Um Haus and Hof , depicting a Jewish speculator dispossessing an elderly peasant couple exist, they are few ...

  3. Liddy Bacroff - Wikipedia

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    In 1936, Liddy Bacroff was prosecuted for the first time under Section 4 of Paragraph 175 a of the German Criminal Code, which was newly introduced by the Nazis and made "commercial indecency" a punishable offense, and was sentenced by the Hamburg Regional Court to two years in the Bremen-Oslebshausen penitentiary with 3 years of "forfeiture of ...

  4. Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Germany) - Wikipedia

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    Germany's flag. Two years after German reunification, the Commission of Inquiry for the Assessment of History and Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in Germany, which was a truth commission that lasted from 1992 to 1994, was established by the German government with the objective of looking at the history and the consequences of the former East German communist government.

  5. Degenerate art - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Women in Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    The historiography of "ordinary" German women in Nazi Germany has changed significantly over time; studies done just after World War II tended to see them as additional victims of Nazi oppression. However, during the late 20th century, historians began to argue that German women were able to influence the course of the regime and even the war.

  7. Female guards in Nazi concentration camps - Wikipedia

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    Relations between SS men and female guards are said to have existed in many of the camps, and Heinrich Himmler had told the SS men to regard the female guards as equals and comrades. At the relatively small Helmbrechts subcamp near Hof , Germany, the camp commandant, Wilhelm Dörr , openly pursued a sexual relationship with the head female ...

  8. Nazi plunder - Wikipedia

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    Many of the artworks looted by the Nazis were recovered by the Allies' Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program (MFAA, also known as the Monuments Men and Women), following the war; however many of them are still missing or were returned to countries but not to their original owners. An international effort to identify Nazi plunder which ...

  9. Rape during the occupation of Germany - Wikipedia

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    Many German women were verbally abused by German soldiers on the streets or in their homes for being "Allied whores", while a lot of them even received threatening letters from German men. [61] In addition, many children died in postwar Germany as a result of widespread starvation, scarce supplies and diseases such as typhus and diphtheria. The ...