Jewish art dealers in Germany were severely attacked by Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi Commissar for Culture, in an address which he delivered yesterday before the Nazi Cultural Assembly in the Sport Palace, the largest hall in Berlin.
“Art,” Herr Rosenberg declared, “has so far been not the property of the German nation but the property of the Jewish art dealer. Masterpieces were treated by the Jews just like papers of exchange. Every five years a new ‘ism’ was proclaimed not as a healthy symptom of progress in art, but for the sake of sensation, publicity, perversion and foreign propaganda. These cosmopolitan Jewish-controlled art concerns not only captured the intellectuals in Germany, but made efforts to gain influence on workers and peasants as well.”
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