art of the Third Reich

[singing] Es ist so einfach.

When Hitler organized the first sort of public display of Nazi art, which was defined in terms of the beauty of the body based on classical paradigms, he's looking back for his model of Aryanism and the perfection of beauty of the human body to classical Greece.

[singing]

And in this case, we know where this led.

The Nazis used art to shape an idea of nationhood, and communicated that idea to the masses through media, on the radio, and in exhibits like the July 1938 Great German Art Exhibition.

[singing]

When Hitler organized the first sort of public display of Nazi art, which was defined in terms of the beauty of the body based on classical paradigms, he's looking back for his model of Aryanism and the perfection of beauty of the human body to classical Greece.

The pieces were carefully chosen.