In Nazi Germany in August 1944, when the course of the war was already pointing to defeat and almost all available men were called up to fight, a group of artists, writers and musicians (exactly 378) were declared exempt from service. military by the Adolf Hitler regime. The Third Reich allowed them to dedicate themselves to the production of works to the greater glory of the National Socialist vision. The list of so-called Gottbegnadeten (Divinely Gifted), 36 pages long, was compiled by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels on a previous list of Hitler’s preferences. In contrast to what the Nazis called...
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