Introduction | Art and Politics | Images of the Heads of State | Images of the Individual and Society
Images of Work and Development | Images of War | A Difficult Heritage
At the Potsdam Conference of 1945 the victorious powers came to an agreement on the denazification of Germany. It was decided to remove all reminders of the Nazi regime from public view and prevent all forms of Nazi propaganda in the future.
In the areas they controlled, the American military authorities implemented this agreement by confiscating works of art featuring Nazi symbols and military motifs. Many of the confiscated objects were taken to the United States and not returned to Germany until decades after the war. Here, the government initially placed the Nazi art in depots, where it remained for a long period before being entrusted to the German Historical Museum in the late 1990s.
The Allies also carried out confiscation campaigns in the other occupied zones of Germany, but a systematic investigation of the confiscations has so far begun only for the former American zone. This exhibition places some of the results on public show for the first time.
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