Joseph Goebbels at the exhibition of 'Degenerate Art' in Berlin, 1938 (b/w photo)

Berlin, Berlin/City State, Germany Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels as the guest of honor at the opening of the exhibition 'Degenerate Art' in the House of Art at the Konig Square in Berlin. Left next to Goebbels is the Exhibition Manager Pistauer. This touring exhibition was opened on 19 July 1937 in Munich and showed 650 confiscated works of art from 32 German museums. In the NS regime, as 'degenerate art' all works of art and cultural directions were considered, which did not correspond to the understanding of art and the beauty ideal of the national socialists. Joseph Goebbels may be by the head of the exhibition through the photo collection.