During the 16 years that Halberstam led the Klausenberg community, he exhibited many of the qualities that would set him apart during his imprisonment by the Nazis.

During the period leading up to and during World War II modernist artists, writers, and poets, as well as important collectors and dealers, fled Europe and the onslaught of the Nazis for safe haven in the United States.

Degenerate Art was also the title of an exhibition, mounted by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, consisting of modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art.

Seventy-one of the paintings previously taken by the Nazis had found their way back to Norway through purchase by collectors ( the other eleven were never recovered ), including The Scream and The Sick Child, and they too were hidden from the Nazis.

** Dutch painter Han van Meegeren is arrested for collaboration with the Nazis, but the paintings he had sold to Hermann Göring ( Koch ) are later found to be his fakes.

While modern styles of art were prohibited, the Nazis promoted paintings and sculptures that were traditional in manner and that exalted the " blood and soil " values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience.

He culled objects from nearly every department of the museum, including religious paintings, many depictions of nudes, social satire and some erotica ; among the selected works, therew were sculptures by Auguste Rodin of lesbians embracing, and furniture from the Bauhaus, the avant-garde German design school closed down by the Nazis.

Ciano, having been dismissed from his post by the new government, attempted to find shelter in Madrid, Spain, alongside Edda and their three children ; but their plane was forced to land by the Nazis, with Mussolini's agreement.

File: Bundesarchiv Bild 102-02134, Bad Harzburg, Gründung der Harzburger Front. jpg | Nazis alongside members of the far-right reactionary and monarchist German National People's Party ( DNVP ), in 1931 during the Nazi-DNVP alliance in the Harzburg Front.

Throughout World War II, Betar was a major source of recruits for both the Jewish regiments that fought the Nazis alongside the British and the Jewish forces that waged an ongoing guerrilla war against the British in Palestine.

Jewish fighters under the leadership of Yosef Glazman, head of Betar Lithuania, battled the Nazis alongside the Lithuanian partisans in the forests of Vilnius ; anti-Nazi partisans in most other nations, however, were unwilling to fight alongside Betar.

It is revealed that the character worked alongside the Nazis during World War II.

Having found themselves alongside Captain America and a foul-mouthed Bucky, Deadpool and Bob join in on the fight against the Nazis.

A year later, she appeared in Shining Through alongside her future brother in law Liam Neeson, where both played Nazis.

During World War II, Glorianna fought for the Allied forces against the Nazis, alongside Supreme, another Liefeld creation.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazis labeled Munch's work " degenerate art " ( along with Picasso, Paul Klee, Matisse, Gauguin and many other modern artists ) and removed his 82 works from German museums.

When the Nazis placed Stravinsky's works on the list of " Entartete Musik ", he lodged a formal appeal to establish his Russian genealogy and declared, " I loathe all communism, Marxism, the execrable Soviet monster, and also all liberalism, democratism, atheism, etc .." Towards the end of his life, at Craft's behest, Stravinsky made a return visit to his native country and composed a cantata in Hebrew, travelling to Israel for its performance.

On May 10, 1933, Nazis in Berlin burned works of Jewish authors, the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, and other works considered " un-German ".

Unfortunately, a large number of Bashkirtseff's works were destroyed by the Nazis during World War II.

From November 8, 1937 to January 31, 1938, the Library of the German Museum in Munich held an art exhibition titled The Eternal Jew, showing works that the Nazis considered to be ' degenerate art '.

After the National Socialists took power, they suppressed modern art ; in 1936 and 1937, the Nazis condemned Marc as an entarteter Künstler ( degenerate artist ), and ordered that approximately 130 of his works be taken from exhibit in German museums.

Frequent ' types ' of universe explored in sidewise and alternative history works include worlds in which the Nazis won the Second World War, such as in The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, SS-GB by Len Deighton and Fatherland by Robert Harris, and worlds in which the Roman Empire never fell, such as in Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg and Romanitas by Sophia McDougall.

Some of his imagery refers to the decadent glamor of the Weimar Republic's cabaret culture, but from the 1930s on, his works often contain mythologized references to the brutalities of the Nazis.

Other evidence of his surrender to Nazi intimidation came in the form of forewords he subsequently wrote for two of his more politically ambiguous works, brief passages in which he essentially declared that the events in his books took place before the rise of the Nazis and were clearly " designed to placate the Nazi authorities ".

All three composers suffered persecution and eclipse under the Nazis, who condemned their works as entartete Musik (" degenerate music ").

The modernism of Schoenberg and Berg proved attractive to young composers, since their works had been banned by the Nazis and were free of any taint of the former regime.

In 1937 his works were confiscated by the Nazis as degenerate art ; he was forbidden to paint and excluded from the " Prussian Academy of Arts " in Berlin.

Between 1938 and 1942 he would write a number of works in German addressing the problem of the Nazis which were also published in a number of languages including English.

" Though not anti-Semitic, this would eventually be one of his works taken out of context and reinterpreted by the Nazis to paint Nietzsche as an early philosopher of Nazism.

Her selection also is symbolically meaningful because, during their occupation of France, the Nazis deliberately destroyed several of her commemorative works that were located in Paris.

: A Song-play ) consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in hiding from the Nazis.

While his earlier works were of a more contemplative nature and pondered metaphysical and religious questions, the Nazis ' rise to power led him to write more political works.

* Charles Percy Parkhurst ( 1913 – 2008 ), American museum curator who recovered works stolen by Nazis

This rule is exemplified in circumstances such as the Holocaust reconciliation movement where property, such as works of art, that was stolen or confiscated by the Nazis is returned to the families of the original owners.

As in some of his writings he showed nationalistic ideas, he was later considered by the Nazis as one of ' their ' writers ( despite the fact that Löns ' lifestyle didn't match the Nazi ideals ), as parts of his works fit well within the ' Blood and soil ' ethos of National Socialism, with National Socialist ideologues such as Walther Darre and Alfred Rosenberg lauding the peasantry and small rural communities as the true lifeblood of the German nation.

In 1933, his work was branded as " degenerate " by the Nazis and in 1937 over 600 of his works were sold or destroyed.

Also, in " The Erymanthian Boar ", a character is said to have been turned out of Austria by the Nazis, implying that the events of The Labours of Hercules took place after 1937.

* 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.

* 1945 – World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4, 000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.

The opera was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and did not have a significant production until the 1960s.

The Second World War temporarily hindered the anthroposophical movement in most of Continental Europe, as the Anthroposophical Society and most of its daughter movements ( e. g. Steiner / Waldorf education ) were banned by the National Socialists ( Nazis ); virtually no anthroposophists ever joined the National Socialist Party.

In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and Adolf Hitler labelled Anthroposophy " Jewish methods.

His mother was murdered by the Nazis, and two other sisters, Gittel and Devorah, died in Nazi concentration camps.

However, in January 2011, the Spanish government denied a request by the U. S. ambassador to return the painting to the Cassirer family in California, which claims with proof that it was among those illegally taken by Nazis in Germany.

In Occupied France, jazz and bebop music plus the jitterbug were banned by the Nazis as decadent American influences, so members of the Resistance met at hidden underground dance clubs called discotheques ( fr.

The town is also known for its proximity to the infamous Dachau concentration camp built in 1933 by the Nazis, in which tens of thousands of prisoners were murdered.

In 1933, the Dachau concentration camp was built east of the city by the Nazis and was operated until 1945.

After the war he wrote on Jewish spirituality ; most of his family had been murdered by the Nazis in Lithuania.

Dollfuss was assassinated on July 25, 1934, by ten Austrian Nazis ( Paul Hudl, Franz Holzweber, Otto Planetta and others ) of Regiment 89 who entered the Chancellery building and shot him in an attempted coup d ' état, the July Putsch.

In Carinthia, a large contingent of northern German Nazis tried to seize power but were subdued by the Italian units nearby.

Moreover, in Yugoslavia there existed the Jasenovac concentration camp ( August 1941 – April 1945 ), which was the only central extermination camp outside of Poland, and the only one not operated by Nazis, but by the fascist Ustaše forces of the Independent State of Croatia, the majority of whose victims were Orthodox Christian Serbs, Roma, and Jews.

* 1941 – February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.

The Nazis, led by Hitler and the German war hero Erich Ludendorff, attempted a " March on Berlin " modeled upon the March on Rome, which resulted in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in November 1923.

Capra's job was to head a special section on morale in order to explain to soldiers " why the hell they're in uniform ", writes Capra, and were not " propaganda " films like those created by the Nazis and Japan.