Hoary? True story

2005-11-25T00:00:00

Far from being a “hoary myth” that the Nazis closed the Bauhaus (Letters November 18), in fact they closed it twice: at Dessau, September 1932; and its emaciated privatised form at Berlin, April 1933 (Frank Whitford’s book, Bauhaus, has a photo of police loading the students into trucks).

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