World War II isn’t just about war. There are many other concepts into the war. For example, the Nazi plunder consists of the Nazis confiscating artwork for various reasons. Adolf Hitler helped create museums and other places for his looted artwork. He also contributed in organizations such as auctions to sell the stolen artworks, as well. Hitler always had a relationship with art, whether it was admiring it or stealing it. Adolf Hitler always had a strong passion for art. Even as a child, he wanted to become an artist. However, Hitler’s father opposed him of being an artist. But when Hitler’s father died, he started dedicating himself more to art since there was no one who could stop him for his love for art. In October 1907, at the age of …show more content…
The Nazis wanted to get rid of any art created during the Weimar Republic (the period of 1924-1930), when Germany was leading a European cultural center, especially in the fields of art, cinema, and literature. The “decadence” caused Nazi anger, and Hitler began closing art schools in 1933. About 16,000 pieces were removed from German museums, and the Nazis declared that all German museums were now “purified.” Hitler wanted new artwork that would show Volk and Volksgmeinschaft (meaning people’s community). He wanted new, cultural, and artistic creativity to grow in Germany, with the “folk-related” and “race concious” arts of Nazi culture replacing what he referred to as the “Jewish decadence” of the Weimar Republic. According to the Nazis, accpetable artwork was old Flemish and Dutch masters, medieval and Renaissance German artworks, Italian Renaissance and baroque pieces, 18th century French artworks, and 19th century German realist painters showing German Volk culture …show more content…
It it located in the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris, and was operated from 1940-1944. In January, 1940, Hitler gave Rosenburg the duty to loot Jewish and Masonic cultural treasures, including synagogues, libraries, and archives in western Europe. By the fall in 1940, Hitler ordered Rosenburg to confiscate all Jewish art collections since these objects were now “ownerless” since in France, and as well in most parts of Europe, Jews no longer had property rights and were labeled “stateless.” The ERR was the most elaborate of the Nazi confiscating agencies and it looted and stole more than 21,000 individual objects from over 200 Jewish owned collections
Through out the duration of the war the looting and destroying of artworks continued. One might even say it was an obsession. Hitler at the time wanted to create a museum of the best art.
World War II started because of Hitler’s persuasive words that compelled the German people to follow him into action. Hitler brought the brainwashed Germans into war against the world that should have never been fought because it made it seem like the Germans were always doing the right thing. In Hitler's book Mein Kampf, Hitler writes, "All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people" (Hitler). The world was given a piece of literature that was a piece of propaganda that benefited the Germans in many ways.
Hitler was born in April of 1889 to a saddened mother. He was the youngest of several children who had all died in their youth, and this great loss had taken a great toll on both of his parents. Adolph's father was an elderly man who did not involve himself in his son's life and died when Adolph was still a young boy. Klara Hitler, on the other hand, played a larger role in Adolph's life as he became and artist. So it was a tragic blow for the young man when his mother died of cancer in 1907. Despite this terrible event, Hitler applied to the prestigious Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where he was denied. Undettered, Hitler reapplied soon after, but was not accepted.
Adolf Hitler Did you know what Hitler wanted to go to school for? He wanted to be an artist. Hitler was the leader of Germany from 1933 to 1945. On September 1, 1939, he started World War I. This paper will cover his early years (like school, home life, mother, and father).
World War Two was the most devastating conflict in the history of humanity. It crippled many nations and caused millions of people to die. One of the major causes of this disastrous war was the Treaty of Versailles which ended the First World War. This treaty was destructive towards the Germans. Germany had to pay large amounts of reparations to the Allied nations at the end of World War One resulting in a Great Depression in Germany. Additionally, the Treaty of Versailles’ war guilt clause forced Germans to admit full responsibility for starting the war. Furthermore, to gain the support of the German populace, Adolf Hitler adopted an effective propaganda campaign. Adolf Hitler employed a successful propaganda campaign to gain the support of the German people combined with the Treaty of Versailles harsh economic and political sanctions ignited World War Two.
As an Austrian born soldier-turned-politician, Hitler was fascinated with the concept of the racial supremacy of the German people. He was also a very bitter, very evil little man. In addition, having lost the war, the humiliated Germans were forced by the Allies to sign the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 that officially ended World War I. According to the harsh terms of the treaty, Germany had to hand over many of its richest industrial territories to the victors, and was made to pay reparations to the Allied countries it devastated during the war. Germany lost its pride, prestige, wealth, power, and the status of being one of Europe's greatest nations.
Being of military decent Hitler’s father ruled his home with an iron fist. This may have affected Hitler in more negative ways than normal. His father soon passed in his early adolescence and Hitler was raised by a single parent, his mother. In the beginning Hitler was not very interested in school he seemed disengaged, nonchalant and rebellious, his true passion lied in being an artist. Unfortunately with many failed attempts of entrance at the Art School Hitler’s hopes of ever becoming an artist remained a dream. Continuing life without formal education life was a little rough on Hitler. His beloved mother now diagnosed with a form of cancer and soon passed away too, Hitler was forced to survive by recreating scenes from postcards and living off the little pension he acquired from that.
If one was an artist in Nazi Germany, they were forced to be a member of the Reich Culture Chamber. Any abstract art, including Otto Dix’s art, was considered degenerate art. Any modern art was seen as degenerate art because it went against racial purity. Artwork that had a Jewish or Communist feel to it was banned. Traditional artwork was allowed because it enforced racial purity, war, and conformity-everything that the Nazi’s agreed with. Once in the Reich Culture Chamber, Otto Dix went back to painting landscapes. He was only allowed to paint them if he followed the regulations of the Reich Culture Chamber. His paintings could not offend any ideals that the Nazi’s agreed
Throughout history, government and culture have proven to be inextricably linked . During the early twentieth century, the Nazi Party's use of artistic propaganda through multiple forms of media directly led to its ascension and dominance of German culture. The Nazis' success can be directly attributed to its careful planning, ruthless implementation, and clear results.
According to the Breman Museum, “the Nazi Party was one of the first political movements to take full advantage of mass communications technologies: radio, recorded sound, film, and the printed word” (The Breman Museum). By publishing books, releasing movies and holding campaigns against Jews, antisemitism came to grow quickly, spreading all across Germany. The Nazi Party often referred to the notion of a “People’s Community” where all of Germany was “racially pure” (Issuu). They would show images of ‘pure’, blond workers, labouring to build a new society. This appealed greatly to people who were demoralized during Germany’s defeat in World War 1 and the economic depression of the 1920’s and 1930’s.
Hitler did not do particularly well in school, leaving formal education in 1905. Unable to settle into a regular job, he drifted. He wished to become an artist but was rejected from the Academy in Vienna. (http://www.history.co.uk/biographies/adolf-hitler)
"You can wipe out an entire generation, you burn their homes to the ground and somehow they will still find their way back. But if you destroy their history, you destroy their achievements and it as if they never existed"(Cambell,2014). During World War II the Nazis would go through the countries they occupied. The art they took was either put in their own museums or they burned them. The Nazis stole millions of pieces of art, mostly pieces that were made from the end of the of the 18th century up until the 1900 's. Hitler ordered his soldiers to steal the art to gain power over other cultures. At the end of the war, the Allies were on a hunt to find all the missing and stolen art the Nazis hid at the end of the war. The big debate today is if the stolen art should go back to their rightful owners. Over a span of six years, the Nazis stole millions of paintings the trails to get those back to their rightful owners has had a lasting impression on today 's world.
Adolf Hitler became the Dictator of Germany in the year 1934 and ruled until the year 1945. Hitler was the leader of the Nazis and the reason for millions of deaths throughout his rule. Although Hitler was a cruel ruler and not an artist, he had an opinion about the arts. Hitler once claimed, “Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.”
He also used anti-Semitism to earn more supporters, blaming Germany’s issues on the Jews. Hitler was looking to start a war from the beginning, not cooperating in Munich Conference. His reasoning for starting the war was the dispute over the port of Danzig (German)/ Gdansk (Polish). Once he had invaded the allies came into the war under an agreement to protect Poland. The goals of Hitler in World War II are different from the goals in World War I. In World War I, Germany’s goal was to annex territory in France and build a German colonial empire (Thomson, 2014). In World War II, Germany’s goal was to acquire “living space”, Lebensraum, and to have a final settlement with the Jews (Hitler Reveals, 2013). The goals to build and empire and acquire Lebensraum seem very similar, but in reality are different. The empire would be just like the other colonial powers in the world, letting the people stay and live their lives. In the Lebensraum, the people of the country would have been cast aside to make room for more Germans to live in the area and populate it. The difference in goals of Germany is what makes me believe that World War II was not a continuation of World War
World War I came to an end in 1918 but Germany’s troubles only augmented through political aggravation and economic distress due to the creation of Weimar Republic and results of the Treaty of Versailles. The conditions of the Weimar Republic following WWI resulted in fragmented political parties, poverty resulting in hyperinflation, and undernourishment. Due to these conditions, themes of exasperation, resentment and desolation were present in the movement in visual art and music.