Save the Mural at 410 S. 15th St home page                  Letters of support:Please scroll down for all letters Letter of support: Ef Campion click here City paper 8/25/2002 letter to editor click here E-mail answer to query Dear Michael Sher,    Thanks for your note.  I'm not sure how I can help you, but yes indeed, the Nazis focused on art (and the politics of art) even before they came to power.  That's the subject of my first book, Art as Politics in the Third Reich (University of North Carolina Press, 1996--it's available in paperback now).    Among other things, the Nazis destroyed Oskar Schlemmer's great murals in the Folkwang Museum in Essen; they painted over Anton Faistauer's murals in Salzburg right after the Anschluss; and burned so-called "degenerate" art at the Berlin Main Fire House in 1939.    I hope that this is helpful.    All the best,  JP    Jonathan Petropoulos  John V. Croul Professor of European History  Director, Gould Center for Humanistic Studies  Associate Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights  Claremont McKenna College    850 Columbia Avenue  Claremont, CA 91711  Tel.: 909-607-2775  Fax: 909-607-9011