The Nazis had nothing against art, on the contrary. They were amateurs and understood  the power it could exert on the minds. Like all fascist regimes, they knew very well how to use the arts to enhance the myth of German greatness. In the cultural world they created, each woman was a potential mother, every man a future hero, each family an emphasis of the purity of the Nordic race. The same themes recur throughout the works created by the official artists of the Third Reich: blood, soil, the people, the conquest.

After the end of World War II, the Bonn government confiscated everything in museums that could recall the defeated regime. The works of art were placed under seal and locked in vaults of sight. Of the approximately 20 000 paintings by German artists of National Socialism, 600 were selected, as the best and most representative of this period and were stored at Munich in “keller” of the former “House of Art German » 7 meters underground where they were kept secret for 30 years. This is where Pierre found them on the eve of the exhibition of some forty of these paintings at the Kunstverein Museum in Frankfurt.