RESCHEDULED – Nazi Culture and the Seduction of the Art World During the Third Reich

Jonathan Petropoulos

Monday, 11 Feb 2002 at 8:00 pm – Design College Auditorium

Jonathan Petropoulos is research director for the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the U.S., and professor of history at Claremont-McKenna College. He is the author of The Faustian Bargain: The Art World of Nazi Germany and Art as Politics in the Third Reich.

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