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Art Under Fascism: What Happened to Artists in Nazi Germany and Italy
In 1937, the Nazis staged the "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition in Munich, displaying 650 confiscated works as examples of "moral and cultural corruption." Over 16,000 works were seized. Artists were banned, exiled, or killed. Here is what happened to art under fascism.