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The Bauhaus as a Site of Political Contest, 1919-1933, Museum Neues Weimar in context of Bauhaus and National Socialism, Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Architecture | 29.05.2024

Bauhaus and National Socialism at Klassik Stiftung Weimar

From the Bauhaus Museum Weimar you can see the Buchenwald concentration camp; from the Bauhaus Museum Weimar you can exactly locate the violence and inhumanity of the NSDAP. However from Bauhaus Weimar and Bauhaus Dessau and Bauhaus Berlin locating the NSDAP is a lot less straightforward; from the Bauhauses seeing the NSDAP is not as simple, the view towards the NSDAP being as it is partially hidden, lightly distorted, unfocussed, by the mists of an unquestioned post-War narrative. And that

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