ARTH 391: Looting Europe: How Hitler Stole the Continent's Art

While studying in Munich, Stuttgart, and Heidenheim, learn about German history through the art, monuments, and architecture Nazi leader Adolf Hitler revered, despised, and looted. At the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, view the paintings of German First World War soldier Otto Dix, branded “degenerate” and banned by the Nazis. Experience the medieval town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, touted by Hitler as a Germanic exemplar. In Munich, walk through the Alte Pinakothek and other art museums that Hitler frequented in his early years, then trace the steps of those persecuted and interned by the Nazis at the Dachau Concentration Camp. Finally, learn about the liberation of prisoners from Hitler's camps, stolen artworks, and their postwar fate in Heidenheim, where a Jewish Displaced Persons camp was established by the U.S. Army.