"Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" by Gustav Klimt

 The Nazi Germany occupation of Europe in World War II resulted in the deportation and deaths of millions of Jews and also led to the most systematic government-supported art theft in modern history. The Nazis seized over 100,000 works of art from private collectors, public museums, and commercial galleries in France, The Netherlands, and Europe.

" Group of Artists"

by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Neue Galerie

The works of George Grosz, Paul Klee, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Ernst Kirchner, Wassily Kandinsky and other contemporary artists were denounced by Hitler, confiscated from museums and put on public display as examples of "Entartete Kunst" - degenerate art.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• NPR - "Degenerate" Exhibit
• NPR- Nazi assault on modern art