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“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture,” wrote Beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg.
Ginsberg was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam war, but his words recall an earlier tragedy from the same century: The Holocaust.
Most already know about the horrific period during WWII when millions of European Jews were rounded up and killed by the Nazis, but not many are aware of the cultural genocide that immediately preceded it.
During the Third Reich, nearly 20 per cent of the total art in Europe was stolen by the Nazis, much of it originally belonging to Jewish families. This attack on art and culture was alluded to in