The Gottbegnadeten-Liste was a 36-page list of artists considered crucial to National Socialist culture. The list was assembled in September 1944 by Joseph Goebbels, the head of the Ministry of Public
Friedrich Kayßler, one of the "irreplaceable actors" on the list
Arno Breker was a German sculptor who is best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, where he was endorsed by the authorities as the antithesis of degenerate art. He was made official state sculp
Adolf Hitler in Paris, 1940, with Albert Speer (left) and Arno Breker (right)