Rudolf Levy was a Jew.
All that was needed was that in 1933 this German painter fled the Nazi regime to take refuge in Florence.
In the City of the Doges, the deposed artist shared premises with one of his compatriots, Werner Haftmann, himself a member of the NSDAP (National Socialist Party of German Workers), slayer of modern art.
In 1938, the official of the Third Reich, member of the Institute of Artistic Research, participated in the cultural component of Adolf Hitler's visit to Italy before commanding, in 1944, a unit responsible for the fight against the Italian resistance fighters.
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Rudolf Levy died in 1944 in a convoy bound for Auschwitz.
In 1955, ironically, Werner Haftmann became the most important German art historian and curator
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