The Nazis denounced jazz music as "degenerate art," despite its widespread popularity in Germany. As the Nazis clamped down ...

Not many know that swing music became extremely popular for teens in Germany as a way to rebel against Nazi culture in the ...

Sometimes I wonder what it might have been like to know my grandmother. Her name was Zoryka Klein and I’ve been told she was beautiful, had an extremely sweet tooth and baked the best poppy seed cake ...

In its ideal form, art serves as a cultural barometer, reflecting a society’s norms, values and ideologies. Certain types of art can also evoke strong emotions, a tactic that Adolf Hitler employed to ...

Max Beckmann, Departure, 1932–35, oil on canvas, triptych, from left to right: 2.2 × 1 m, 2.2 × 1.2 m, 2.2 × 1 m Before walking down 86th street to the Neue Galerie, I reclined in a Marcel Breuer ...

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