I held back for a couple of days after discovering this, partly not to give these fascist scum any more publicity, partly to watch to see what developed. But seeing more references pop into the TL, I had to protect my "scoop"!
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The other painting was Erntepause (Break in the Harvest) by Georg Günther, one of at least two artists by that name. Here is the detail as used on the website.pic.twitter.com/uyAkhryRH3
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The painting is in @GNM_Nuernberg's collection. It provides this background. Hitler liked it so much that he personally acquired it at one of the approved German art exhibitions (where many of Willrich's works, incidentally, were displayed). Good choice to champion rural Britain.pic.twitter.com/66QGROtxi3
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Over the signature of the "acting leader", the fascism gets more explicit, if anything:pic.twitter.com/XIyqWILrYn
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"Resting" founder probably isn't spending *all* his time watching Leni Riefenstahl films.
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The bullet points keep getting tweaked. Oh, for the expertise of a Victor Klemperer to help parse the totalitarian perversion of language. But even the casual reader will notice the adoption of the Trumpian slogan in an effort to bring in alt-right Yank bucks.pic.twitter.com/DRmqLuuo95
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I'm blocked but, as of earlier today at least, Washed-Up of Wrexham is still using the Third Reich image on his personal account, even though he now well knows the artist's key role in persecuting others on the Nazis' behalf. Perhaps this acts as his personal altar.pic.twitter.com/BNfzXimOyP
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All from a bumper book of Nazi art perhaps? Blut und Boden again.
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