The Realism Of Germany During World War II

Karl Lueger’s, mayor of Vienna, command over the masses through rhetoric and sensitive emblems were the rallying point behind which Hitler was able to gain power over the Nazi’s and keep the people inspire with parades and a sense of patriotism entwined with spirituality. 20. Adolf Lanz Ostara was the work that instilled in Hitler an antisemitism and belief of entitlement of the Aryan race. 21. Wagener’s portrayal of an artist as a misfit from the bourgeois society who can only depend on himself while only pushed forward by the desire to control and manipulate inspired Hitler’s patterns of leadership.

His basic themes in this work were anti-Semitism, Germany’s need to conquer “living space,” and the necessity of a leader-dictator (Führer) with unlimited power.

To fully answer this question one must look at the underlying philosophies behind Hitler’s leadership. What did he stand for and did his ideologies have any redeeming characteristics? Indisputably he had an ability to lead and motivate. He was revered with almost God – like fanaticisms by his people. This essay will set out to establish the basis of his leadership and within that framework, the nature of the man and his vision for the world.

The issue of Hitler’s psychological abnormality and the cause being has many believed that it also stems from him being rejected twice to his dream school, the Academy of Arts in Vienna. He has been raised with the constant influence of anti-semitic beliefs and many believed that a staggering amount of Jewish people who were in power during the time had a lot of impact whether he would have been accepted to his dream school or not-- this obviously made him dislike the general Jewish population more than he already did. However, it is not just Hitler’s psychological state of mind that enabled him to commit barbaric and inhumane acts of aggression towards millions of Jewish people, but also the German citizens’ defeated and worn out feelings that also allowed for the horrendous acts to be committed. This is due to the fact that Germany lost the First World War and were deemed to be responsible for the reparations that totalled to 132 billion gold marks, or over $33 billion US dollars, and with this plus the fitful psychological state of mind of the dictator himself, Hitler and the Germans sought out for revenge and found the Jewish population as the main target to place their rage. The idea of using the Jewish population as the scapegoat for their

Have you ever wondered how Hitler rose to power, why he disliked the Jews and wanted them gone? In this research piece Hitler’s leadership significance will be thoroughly discussed, The reason why Hitler disliked the Jewish is that when he was a child and his mom was going through cancer he liked to be in art, so he took classes at his school. He took art all the way up to college, and he went to attend an art school and it was a Jewish school. So he waited to see if they would accept him, and they didn’t accept him and that was when he didn’t like the Jewish when he didn’t get accepted. Think of this if hitler did get accepted would wwII be avoided and as well as the Holocaust?

During Adolf Hitler’s early years he had a difficult life, he was extremely loved by his mother, Klara Hitler. On the other hand his father, Alois Hitler, beat him regularly. Adolf was a resentful, discontented child. He was deeply hostile toward his father Alois, and strongly attached to his hard-working mother. At the age of sixteen with dreams of becoming a painter, Adolf left school. In October 1907, Adolf left home for Vienna where he remained until 1913, he embittered at his rejection by the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts, he was to spend “five years of misery in woe.” In Vienna he acquired his first education in politics by studying “The demagogic techniques of the popular Christian social Mayer, Karl Lueger.” He picked up the stereotyped obsessive anti-semitism, with his brutal

Many wonder what the notorious Adolf Hitler must have endured that led him the become such an evil, careless person. He is infamously known as the main perpetrator of the Holocaust in which roughly ten million people died. Although his exact reasoning for intolerance is, and always will be, unknown, we can infer his motive probably began for reasons such as his failure to become an artist, his abusive father, and his public relations with anti-semitic leaders.

The Nazis would systematically censor modern art and decide “what art is decent or indecent, uplifting or ‘degenerate’” (Goggin 84) in order to wipe out all threatening ideas and strengthen the Nazi ideal, and Dix’s works were considered the latter. As a form of artistic control, the Nazis publically criticized modern artists as well as banning their works from museums and public displays. The art that was considered to be degenerate were labelled so because they didn’t fit into the Nazis’ criteria of representing solely the good, the positive and the healthy in society. In his art in his war portfolio, Dix portrayed the exact opposite. He painted and drew only death, disease, disaster and decay (Goggin 84-89). Hitler and his party deemed Dix’s works as degenerate because they were considered to be antimilitary and threatening to the Germans, the Nazi regime, and all of Hitler’s plans and beliefs he tried to instil in the German people. As a result of his so-called crimes, many of his paintings were burned and he was forced to join the German army and fight alongside those whose malpractice he wished to expose

Once in power, Adolf Hitler wasted no time establishing a fascist regime. He was a man obsessed with translating his ideals into a reality. In order to accomplish such a feat, Hitler and the Nazi party would have to mold the German people into a single unit that would follow him and his regime under any circumstances (Spielvogel, 140). Hitler viewed himself as a messianic leader with a mission to “liberate the German people and make Germany great” (Spielvogel, 132). Hitler was a great orator and considered himself a “great simplifier.” During his speeches, he “inhaled the feelings of his audience,” and then expressed to his listeners

Hitler employed artists to create beautiful posters and magazine spreads to advertise and promote the Games. When they included athletes in their artwork, the artists portrayed them as representatives of the Nazi myth of the "Aryan" race -- blue eyed blondes with strong, chiseled features. In this way, Hitler wanted to draw a link between Nazi Germany and Ancient Greece. (16).

In condemning the type of art, Hitler’s objective is to bring the German’s together and bring pride back into their race, all in the hopes of becoming a superior and pure race.

As “Entartete Kunst” traveled around Germany for a few years, the Nazi party wanted to show that art has degenerated with the works expressionism. This was one of the many ways the Nazi party wanted to show how society is “sick” and needs to be cleaned. The Nazi party wanted the viewers of the exhibit to see and think that the expressionist art is “degenerate” in their own viewer’s mind, other than just saying it was to the public.

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

During World War two the National Socialists went to great lengths to establish what they believed to be acceptable cultural values of the German-ultimitaly Aryan race. Any modern artist was judged at the hand of the Third Reich and if they did not obide German policy, they were classified as degenerate and were banned from the ever-expanding Aryan Race. The lengths to which the national socialists went to, to degrade these artists, was unimaginable. They labeled proclaimed artworks as degenerate and stuck them into an exhibition (Entarte Kunst) to display for the german people what was now considered un-German (Barron 2). Understanding the definition of Degenerate Art is critical, in order for us to determine why “Gino Severini’s (1883-1966) Armored Train in Action (1915) would have been considered for the Entarte Kunst Exhibition.

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?