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Political Upheaval · 1933

Hitler Becomes Chancellor

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The Nazi regime immediately closed the Bauhaus and drove German modernists into exile, concentrating avant-garde talent in New York and Paris and reshaping where modernism would survive.

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Book burning on the Opernplatz, Berlin, May 10, 1933. Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-14597, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons
Hitler Becomes Chancellor (1933) · Ellsworth