HISTORY 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Leonardo Conti, Degenerate Art, Fritz Hippler
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What to look for: the political message and how it is conveyed: pleasure and nazi racism, propaganda as entertainment, jew s ss, 1940 was one of the most famous propaganda films used by the. Since the enlightenment, people believe that your complexion would reflect your inner illumination. This would try to be rooted into scientific research and biological studies: prior to scientific racism at the end of the 19th century, people wouldn"t make the claim that the differences were biological. The eugenic and scientific approach to racism developed in the 19th century. Nazi state was a young, modern state that embraced a youthful spirit. A lot of kids escape the grasp of the hitler youth. They presented them in an organized fashion to suggest that this kind of art reflected not something you can"t see like emotion, political, or arguments, but the nazis thought these would give expression to biology.
