"Questionable Issue: Currency of the Holocaust" is on exhibit at the Alexandria Museum of Art in downtown Alexandria. It is a traveling exhibit from the Holocaust Museum Houston
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Propaganda. From films to literature to money, the National Socialist German Workers' Party used it all to influence public opinion during World War II.
While 4 million Jews suffered in concentration camps across Europe, Adolph Hitler initiated a ruse to prove to world he wasn't such a bad guy. In 1943, he organized a visit to Theresienstadt by the International Red Cross. The film portrayed concentration camps as labor camps akin to logging towns. Workers were paid wages for their work, and they could use their earnings to purchase items from a company store. ...