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TIL In 1937, the Nazis put two art shows on in Munich; one was for “degenerate” (mainly abstract) art primarily made by “Jews/Bolsheviks”, while the other one was on “Great” German art, like classics. The former received more than a million visitors, 3 times the number that visited the latter.

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