SHOCKER: Hitler’s aristocrats (2023), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the "NaziMoMA" strand
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The investigation has only just... begun.
Art Design Publicity at ADC | 26 November 2025
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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 part one of Philip Johnson’s declassified FBI report.
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