Fear and Propaganda: National Socialism and the Concept of “Degenerate Art”

"Degenerate art"—the slogan represents National Socialist cultural barbarism and the destruction of modernism in Germany between the wars. Hitler and his party-liners did not invent the phrase, but they adopted it, intensified it, and derived from it their destructive policies on art. “Degenerate art” is the extreme example of a state-run campaign against modern art.