SHOCKER: Hitler’s aristocrats (2023), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the "NaziMoMA" strand

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(Left) Georg von Schnitzler, a 1932 MoMA Modern architecture show patron (co-curated by Philip Johnson) and later convicted of Nazi war crimes in the I. G. Farben trial, part of the Nuremberg Trials after WWII. Husband of art collector Lily von Schnitzler. (Right) Their daughter, "Lelo" von Schnitzler-Scholz, darling in the Washington, DC society pages, spotlighted here in The Washington Herald on December 23, 1937. (Click through tweet to article.) Lelo was married to Herbert Scholz, the man thought to be the head of the German Gestapo in the US, working out of the German Embassy. Apparently it was Hitler that brought the couple together; a society journalist later said that Lelo championed the Führer. Both charming, stylish and attractive, Lelo and Herbert were thought to be recruiting for the Nazi cause in DC.

Like the feature article on her ends, "Here is Lelo."

The NaziMoMA strand

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For decades, I certainly bought into the PR-shaped history that the Museum of Modern Art in New York was a fierce and stylish bastion against Nazism, championing the Weimar-era 1919-28 Bauhaus and all. It would seem impossible to ever argue that the museum, founded in 1929, wasn’t dominantly presenting that.

But a string of seemingly disconnected, pro-Nazi elements can be seen from 1932-43— including Philip Johnson and some on the board of trustees — when referring to critical business history, as shown in Antony Sutton’s Wall Street and the rise of Hitler (1976).

Here we see that Rockefeller’s Standard Oil (卐) was in an I. G. Farben (卐) tie-up. Philip and his father Homer were in an ALCOA I. G. Farben (卐) tie-up. Even Warburgs in Germany and New York were in an American I. G. Farben (卐) tie-up. And then there was Henry Ford’s son Edsel, CEO of the Ford Motor Company (卐).

Click the photo to see Philip Johnson’s declassified FBI report.

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