Munich, 1937: The best of Avant-garde art in German museums was confiscated and exhibited under the title "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art).  Artist like  Emil Nolde, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, just to mention a few of them, were now stigmatised as a threat to German culture. The Nazi program of total war on modern art was very successful; this travelling exhibition (shown in 12 cities) attracted more than 3 million visitors.