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The History Hour: Degenerate Art and the Nazis

Degenerate Art and the Nazis

09/11/2013

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Degenerate Art and the Nazis

Hitler's hatred of modern art, the death of Dylan Thomas, and marching in the Sahara.

Hitler's hatred of modern art, Moroccans march into the desert, the first multi-racial school in southern Africa, and the death of Dylan Thomas.

In the week that news broke of the discovery of massive trove of art looted by the Nazis in Munich, we look back at the Degenerate Art exhibition, set up by the Nazis to ridicule contemporary art. Plus, half a million Moroccans march into the desert, the first multi-racial school in southern Africa, thousands evacuated after a chemical crash in Canada, and the death of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. 

Picture: Two men prepare to hang German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann's triptych 'Temptation' at the 20th Century German Art Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, London. The exhibition includes work by all the German artists pilloried by Adolf Hitler in the 'Degenerate Art' exhibition in Munich of 1937. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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