Morag Forbes

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by the time he reached Hamburg in September 1936, a great many paintings, as well as art historians, condemned by the Nazis as decadent or impure, had already been removed from the public arena. Then, a few weeks after his arrival, an explicit order was sent out to art galleries and museums to strip their walls of ‘degenerate’ modern pictures. Across the country thousands of masterpieces by the likes of Klee, Nolde and Munch were cast into darkness. Sometimes Beckett was permitted to view them in the cellars, where many ended up, but as often his requests met with blank refusal.
Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People
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