Germany was left in a completely ruined state after the First World War. The Germans were completely shocked by their defeat and it was very difficult for them to accept that their armies had lost the war in 1918. Generals even declared that they had not really been defeated but had been “stabbed in the back” by liberals, socialists, communists and Jews (Winks and Adams, 135). The Treaty of Versailles left the entire burden of the war to the Germans. They were forced to sign a treaty that held them solely responsible for the war (Winks and Adams, 136). This left Germany with the full financial burden of the war, which sent it into a deep depression. Aside from the financial burden, this “led many Germans to devote their energies to denying blame for the war, to attacking. The degenerate arts were also linked to “degenerate” or deformed people. A painting by Paul Schultze-Naumberg from 1928 illustrates this principle. The degenerate arts stand alongside “degenerate” people (Slide show 4, 21 October 2015). As we have seen, the regulations imposed for the control of these arts were established to control all public forums and thus inhibit the development of ideas contrary to Nazi ideology (Petropoulos, In the exhibition to eradicate hatred there were several artefacts of propaganda that promoted anti-Semitism An example of this is the traveling exhibition of anti-Semitic propaganda entitled Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew). It opened in Munich on 8 November 1937. In this exhibition Jews were depicted as moral degenerates with their distorted images in posters and postcards. Germany's defeat and sense of failure led to the creation of the Third Reich. German unity and improving the state of Germany in general ideas were clearly promoted through different methods of propaganda and cultural policy such as art, museums, films and posters promoting them