1. Degenerate Art Exhibit Opened July 19, 1937 included all modernist art (abstract, cubist, expressionist, surrealist, even some impressionists) considered elitist, decadent, intellectual, foreign “Jewish/Bolshevist influenced” more than 17,000 pieces confiscated from museums Organized by Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment

2. Nazi approved art realist depictions of: country life health the Aryan race/”true Aryan spirit” power of Nazis German world as either peaceful or drawn into a struggle for survival upheld “respectable” moral values easy to understand

5. Holocaust Art Exhibit David Olère

6. Paul Célan (Paul Antschel) Born in Rumania to German speaking Jewish parents parents killed in Nazi labor camps interned for 18 months troubled relationship with German language committed suicide in 1970 considered one of the most important poets to emerge from WWII.

7. “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” – Theodor Adorno, 1949 “Perennial suffering has as much right to expression as a tortured man has to scream, hence it may have been wrong to say that after Auschwitz you could no longer write poems.” -- 1966

8. Death fugue