The V&A holds the only document detailing the full extent of the Nazis’ systematic purging of German museums and public collections from 1937. Created at the heart of the Nazi regime by Joseph Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda, the document records the confiscation of more than 16,000 works of art which the Nazis deemed ‘degenerate’. A selection of the seized paintings, drawings and sculptures was shown at the infamous ‘Degenerate Art’ exhibition, which opened in Munich in 1937 and subsequently toured across the Reich.
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