Editing Nazi Germany (section)

=== Architecture and art ===
{{Main|Nazi architecture|Art in Nazi Germany|Music in Nazi Germany}}
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146III-373, Modell der Neugestaltung Berlins ("Germania").jpg|thumb|upright|Plans for Berlin called for the ''[[Volkshalle]]'' (People's Hall) and a [[triumphal arch]] to be built at either end of a wide boulevard.|alt=]]

Hitler took a personal interest in architecture and worked closely with state architects [[Paul Troost]] and [[Albert Speer]] to create public buildings in a [[neoclassical architecture|neoclassical]] style based on [[Roman architecture]].{{sfn|Scobie|1990|p=92}}{{sfn|Evans|2005|p=181}} Speer constructed imposing structures such as the [[Nazi party rally grounds]] in [[Nuremberg]] and a new [[Reich Chancellery]] building in Berlin.{{sfn|Speer|1971|pp=92, 150–151}} Hitler's plans for rebuilding Berlin included a gigantic dome based on the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]] in Rome and a [[triumphal arch]] more than double the height of the [[Arc de Triomphe]] in Paris. Neither structure was built.{{sfn|Speer|1971|pp=115–116, 190}}

Hitler's belief that [[abstract art|abstract]], [[Dadaist]], [[expressionist]] and [[modern art]] were decadent became the basis for policy.{{sfn|Evans|2005|p=168}} Many art museum directors lost their posts in 1933 and were replaced by party members.{{sfn|Evans|2005|p=169}} Some 6,500 modern works of art were removed from museums and replaced with works chosen by a Nazi jury.{{sfn|Shirer|1960|pp=243–244}} Exhibitions of the rejected pieces, under titles such as "Decadence in Art", were launched in sixteen different cities by 1935. The [[Degenerate Art Exhibition]], organised by Goebbels, ran in Munich from July to November 1937. The exhibition proved wildly popular, attracting over two million visitors.{{sfn|Evans|2005|pp=171, 173}}

Composer [[Richard Strauss]] was appointed president of the ''[[Reichsmusikkammer]]'' (Reich Music Chamber) on its founding in November 1933.{{sfn|Evans|2005|p=187}} As was the case with other art forms, the Nazis ostracised musicians who were deemed racially unacceptable and for the most part disapproved of music that was too modern or [[atonal]].{{sfn|Evans|2005|p=199}} [[Jazz]] was considered especially inappropriate and foreign jazz musicians left the country or were expelled.{{sfn|Evans|2005|p=204}} Hitler favoured the music of [[Richard Wagner]], especially pieces based on Germanic myths and heroic stories, and attended the [[Bayreuth Festival]] each year from 1933 to 1942.{{sfn|Evans|2005|pp=199–200}}