Kokoschka's Degenerate Art

He believed that “Aryans” were the purified race. He pronounced that his race must remain pure in order to one day take over the world. For Hitler, the ideal "Aryan" was blond, blue-eyed, and tall. Although Hitler was not even close to looking like an Aryan, he showed the love he had for them. His mind-set was very racist and discriminatory. He had the idea of a “master race” and he discriminated anyone that wasn’t a part of it. He believed that the Germanic people were the only purified race and everyone else was filthy. The Nazis began to put their ideology into practice with the support of German scientists who believed that the human race could be improved by limiting the reproduction of people considered "inferior." The only way Hitler could carry on his “master race” was by getting rid of every non-aryan. He went on a hunting spree for every Jew, Gypsy, homo-sexual, etc. He thought they were not pure and didn’t belong on earth, and this expresses the hatred and how discriminatory he was towards anyone that wasn’t German. By doing this, the Nazis grew in power and had the German society following them, which shows the control and power of Hitler’s words and actions. When Hitler and the Nazis came to power, these beliefs became the government ideology and were spread in publicly displayed posters, on the radio, in movies, in classrooms, and in newspapers. Hitler traveled in planes from city to city, spreading the word of the Aryan-race. He spoke to radio stations, educated children in school, posted pictures and many posters, but he mostly gave brainwashing speeches that tricked most of the German Society to follow him. He used blind obedience to grow his idea. Although most Germans followed out of fear, others seemed to resist and go against

Leanne Mere Period 5 8E Holocaust: Memory and Meaning Unit Essay 5/. During World War 2 Jewish people were dehumanized and oppressed by Hitler and the Nazi political party. In the early 1940’s, Hitler began his violent tactics to eliminate Jewish people. Many political propaganda blamed Germany’s loss during World War 1 on Jewish spies assisting the Allied powers. Hitler believed that there was a superior race in which Aryan was named. Being Aryan meant that you were tall, pale skinned, blonde haired and blue eyed pure blood Germans.

Hitler was one of, if not the most infamous totalitarian leaders in all history to date. He gained that title by the cruel and inhumane ways he ruled Germany from 1933-1945. Hitler believed the “Aryan race”(people with pale skin, blonde hair and blue eyes) was the “superior race” and those who were not Aryan were subhuman and not worthy of human rights. Hitler was determined to rid Germany of any and all Jewish people and people who were not his “superior race”. Anyone who stood in his way or even spoke out against him would be tortured and murdered the same way he tortured and murdered thousands of innocent Jewish people and others he believed to be subhuman.

Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party, had ambitions to create a perfect race. This meant eliminating the Jewish race along with other undesirable races and disabled humans.

One of Hitler’s many ambitions for Germany was to achieve total Aryan supremacy. Hitler wanted to make all Germans perfect physical specimens. All of them tall and strong with blue eyes and blond hair though he himself was short, with brown eyes and hair. Hitler claimed that the Germans were the purest Aryans and therefore superior to all other peoples. Hitler made sure that all Germans knew this, he told the German people what they wanted to hear, that they were in fact the master race and that they were superior to any other persons. Although many were opposed to Hitler’s idea of Aryan supremacy the German people supported him enthusiastically regardless.

From 1933 to 1945, Germanyś government was led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. During this time, they carried out a method to onslaught all European Jews. Because the Germans placed themselves as the superior people, they decided that Jews would be punished only because of their religion/race. In Hitlerś eyes, the only way for survival was to be a part of the ¨master race¨. The ¨master race¨ was to always stay ¨pure¨ in hope that one day, they would take over the world.

In 1940 Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Nazi Germany. Hitler, with the support of Germany, begins his quest for world domination and purging his nation of all those he thinks are impure to his new aryan race. These people are the Jews, the disabled, gypsies, those with different political views, and those who are gay.

Imagine getting all your dreams get shattered by one person. Imagine everything you worked hard for going down the toilet. That's exactly what happened to Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler. Everyone knows Hitler as the cause of the major attack against the Jews called the Holocaust. Though, what no one really knows was that this evil dictator that’s responsible for millions of Jewish lives actually got rejected from Art school. His dream was to become a famous artist. January 30th, 1933 was when Adolf Hitler started the first concentration camp that then progressed to the Holocaust. Back then, Germany was considered a Socialist country. Socialism is the central meaning of common ownership. Nazi Germany practically controlled the Jewish community.

Nazi Racism points out that, “In his speeches and writings, Hitler spread his beliefs in racial "purity" and in the superiority of the "Germanic race"—what he called an Aryan "master race." He pronounced that his race must remain pure in order to one day take over the world. For Hitler, the ideal "Aryan" was blond, blue-eyed, and tall” (Nazi Racism). In order to carry out his vision of the perfect race, Hitler created breeding facilities where Aryan women were impregnated by military soldiers. To make sure his vision was not compromised, Hitler forcible sterilized over one-hundred thousand people who were deemed inferior to the Aryan race. The Nazi party abused their political power by taking totalitarian control over Germany. The society reflected the views of the government as it normalized the maltreatment directed towards Jewish people. The government restricted Jewish freedom and stripped them of their civil liberties. Nazi Germany enacted laws that would forcible put Jewish people in

For years before Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, he was overpowered with the idea of a perfect race. In his speeches, Hitler spread his beliefs in racial "purity" and in the superiority of the "Germanic race", what he called an Aryan, which is a "master race." Hitler pronounced that his race must remain pure in order to take over the world. For Hitler and the Nazis, the ideal "Aryan" was blond, blue-eyed, and tall.

During World War 2 the National Socialist German Workers ' Party, or Nazi, leader came into power and spread his ideology: his name was Adolf Hitler. At the time, there were so many people that praised him and what he stood for. On the other hand, the majority of the world saw the cruel things that he did to the Jewish people. Those people refer to his as "insane" because of the fact that he had no remorse for the actions that he was doing. He saw only one type of German people and he would not accept anything else. During and after Hilters reign psychologists, doctors, researchers, and others tried to figure out his mindset. They tried to justify how someone could be so cruel to people of his country when the people had done nothing wrong to him. The psychopathology of Adolf Hitler has sparked the interest of various amounts of people. His mental, physical, and emotional illnesses are contributing factors that drove him to be so inhumane.

For World War I left men wound mentally and physically. About thirty-one percent of the men were either wounded in the line of fire or had nightmares of what happen in the trenches (Brose, 111). For example, a soldier named Paul saw his fellow soldier, Behm get struck in the eye with a shell in the line of fire (Remarque, 12). These sights caused men to repress their worries because they did not want to die in the war. In order for them to survive, they had to come to the realization to repress the questions of why they were fighting and what they were fighting for out of their minds (Remarque, 138).

Adolf Hitler served in the German army during World War I. In view of the fact that Germany was defeated in the war, Hitler, as well as many anti-Semites, started to blame the Jews for the country’s defeat. After the war, he joined the Nazi Party, however, later was imprisoned for treason in his act on the Beer Hall Putsch. While he was imprisoned, he wrote the memoir “Mein Kampf”, which is about the prediction of a general European war getting rid of the Jewish race in Germany. Hitler believed that a person’s abilities, attitudes, behavior, and characteristics were determined by their “racial makeup.” Hitler had an obsession about the dominance of “pure” German race. He believed that all groups or races carried within those traits were permanently transmitted from one generation to the next and that no one could overcome the inborn qualities of race. In his eyes, he viewed that all of human history could be explained in racial struggle. He had also believed that Germans were associated with higher-level races he called “Aryan.” On the other hand, Hitler warned the “Aryan” race that they were threatened by lower-level races like Slavs, Africans, Jews, and Romans. According to Hitler, the “Aryan” race was threatened by these lower-level races considering that the Weimar Republic was losing the competition for population and land. In his eyes, he viewed that because of the lack of living space, the birthrate of Germans would reach to very low levels. He saw that the only way to survive, would be to target and

World War II was a war that was forever etched in history as a result of it destruction and overwhelming body count. But who would have thought that this war would have found a way to impact art before it’s time. Before Hitler rose to power, he used the civil war in Spain around 1936 as his personal field test. In response, arts took to their trade to cope with their frustration and express their opinions. Then as war was on the verge of beginning, Hitler stole modern art from Jewish artists and put them in his own show. His show was titled “Degenerate Art,” and it portrayed the artist as demented people who were a hindrance to society. He felt sane people were incapable of producing such abstract art. He went on to sponsor another

Art, in essence, is one of the most crucial pieces of cultural history. It transcends language, emanates emotion, provokes thought, and stimulates imagination. In other words, art is of monumental value in its scope of what befalls under its umbrella. It was no wonder why during the Nazi regime from 1933 - 1945 that the Nazis would thieve some of Europe’s most treasured works but also those deemed “degenerate.” Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Wally is a perfect example as to what “degenerate” art would be considered and what the Nazis would have been interested in seizing, but why?