Hitler's Horses: The Incredible True Story of the Detective who Infiltrated the Nazi Underworld

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Nazi sculptures on show Why a German museum is putting two Nazi sculptures on show

How odd that a park that only after the war reverted to the Jewish name the Nazis had erased could today display a sculpture by one of Hitler’s favourite artists. In 1939, Kolbe created a portrait bust of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, which was given to Hitler as a birthday present. Kolbe, to be fair, was one of the few Third Reich artists to have work shown in both Munich’s Degenerate Art show and the Nazi-sanctioned Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung across town. After the war, Breker’s status as image maker for the Nazis, one might have thought, would have made him persona non grata in the new German republic. On the contrary, he benefited from an old boys’ network of Nazis: his Pallas Athene in Wuppertal was made possible by the intercession of fellow “divinely gifted” architect Friedrich Hetzelt. The 1944 Cavalry Corps, in turn, had up to 103 tanks and tank destroyers in addition to three Cavalry Divisions [95] that once again were made lean and light and dependent on horse alone (4,700 [d] men with 76mm field guns and no armor). [95] By the end of the war with Germany, Soviet cavalry returned to its pre-war nominal strength of seven cavalry corps, or one cavalry corps per each tank army. This made the cavalry the only military unit in the Red army to achieve 100% Guards status among all of its units. The CMGs of the period (one Tank Corps and one Cavalry Corps) were regularly weapons of choice in operations where terrain prohibited the use of fully deployed Tank Armies. [96] Max Werner (2006 reprint of 1940 edition). The Military Strength of the Powers. Read Books. ISBN 1-4067-9823-1, ISBN 978-1-4067-9823-4.

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Hitler’s favourite artists: why do Nazi statues still stand Hitler’s favourite artists: why do Nazi statues still stand

a b c d Rich, Wilson p. 653 (table 59). Note that decline in horse population due to motorization and the Great Depression continued through the 1930s. Nazi artist Josef Thorak created the two "Striding Horses" (known in German as "Schreitende Pferde")for Adolf Hitler's New Reich Chancellery in Berlin.Breker had been lionised by the leaders of the Third Reich In 1944, he figured on a list of 378 “Gottbegnadeten” or “divinely gifted” artists whom Hitler and Nazi chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels exempted from military duty. In 1936, Hitler made Breker official state sculptor, giving him a large studio and 43 assistants. He was commissioned to make two athletic sculptures for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Three other sculptures – The Party, The Army and Striding Horses – were prominently displayed at the entrance to Speer’s New Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Waller, Anna L. (1958). "Horses and Mules and National Defense". Army Quartermaster Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-08-27 . Retrieved 2008-07-17.

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Now the sculptures will be shown again for the first time in the Spandau Citadel. One of the horses has been on display there for some time, and the second one is now being unveiled and examined by restorers. With the help of middlemen, he acquired the sculptures from the Soviet military authorities, German media reported at the time of the seizure. They were smuggled out of East Germany in pieces, disguised as scrap metal, months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Motorization in the interwar period [ edit ] At the end of World War I the former belligerents retained masses of traditional cavalry (1923 French unit pictured) and were facing motorization to overcome the prospects of another strategic stalemate. Darunas Liekis (2010). 1939 The Year That Changed Everything in Lithuania's History. Rodopi. ISBN 90-420-2762-2, ISBN 978-90-420-2762-6. Decorator of Hitler’s desk … a 1965 ceiling painting by Nazi-commissioned artist Hermann Kaspar. Photograph: DHM, Fotograf Eric Tschrnow, 2020Dissenting voices finally emerged. But what’s especially striking is how much of the postwar work of these Nazi artists survives, barely noticed, in public spaces in Germany. Raphael Gross, the Deutsches Historisches Museum’s president, recalls that when he lived in Frankfurt he would pass by a sculpture every day on his way to work at the city’s Rothschild Park. “Until recently, I didn’t know it had been commissioned during the Third Reich and installed after the war.” The horse sculptures being removed from a storehouse in Bad Duerkheim, Germany, 21 May 2015. Fredrik von Erichsen/picture alliance via Getty Images Breker was not an unusual case. The Deutsches Historiches Museum exhibition includes more than 300 works of art – tapestries, murals, sculptures – made by Nazi artists or fellow travellers after 1945. Among them is work by Hermann Kaspar whom Speer commissioned to design mosaics, frescoes, floors, friezes and wood inlays for the New Reich Chancellery. Hitler was most taken with the inlay of the oversized desk in the Führer’s study that, Speer recalled in his memoirs, depicted the mask of Mars, god of war, behind which a sword was crossed with a lance. “Well, well,” Hitler reportedly told Speer. “When the diplomats sitting in front of me at this table see it, they will learn to be afraid.” The park, named after the Rothschild family who had bought the property in 1837, was appropriated by the Nazis and its palace destroyed in a 1944 RAF bombing raid. Today, the park includes a statue called Der Ring der Statuen depicting seven nude allegorical figures by Georg Kolbe, commissioned in 1941 but only erected in 1954. Sutton, David (15 February 2022). Syria and Lebanon. Campaign of 1941. Bloomsbury USA. p.59. ISBN 9781472843845.