Today we were originally supposed to meet with and talk to a Holocaust survivor but unfortunately he had to cancel at the last minute due to health reasons. Unfortunately most of the survivors at this time are very old which is a terrible thing because soon there will be no survivors left to tell their story.
Instead we went to Haus Der Kunst (house of the art) where the Nazis displayed art that they deemed "acceptable." In Nazi Germany there was what was called "degenerate art" or art that negatively conveyed the Nazis or was not approved of by the Nazi party. This degenerate art was removed from museums and other places throughout Germany as a sort of cultural genocide.
Hitler wanted to create a new culture in Germany that coincided with Nazism. Haus Der Kunst was instrumental to his plan because Munich was such a cultural city so he wanted to essentially remove the German culture and transform it into the culture that he thought was ideal. Only art that the Nazis approved or art that was considered Nazi propaganda would be displayed in this building.
It was pretty interesting to learn how important art was to Hitler's plan and how preserved the Haus Der Kunst is still to this day.