''In cultural areas, as in others, there can be no future without a relationship to the past,'' declared Antje Vollmer, the Green deputy who proposed the debate. The time has come, she said, ''to break the taboo of silence around the Nazi art.'' The paintings will be revealed in all their triteness, she said, and the laughter will help chase away the ghosts of the Nazi period. But the lingering fear is that not everyone will laugh. ''There is still uncertainty in dealing with official Nazi art because the so-called 'beautiful art,' which was intended in those days to reflect the 'healthy taste of the people,' is closer to the taste of the broad majority of the public even today than the so-called modern art,'' said Claudia Siede, the chief culture spokesman of the Greens. _Click here: West Germans Debate Disposition of Nazi Art - New York Times_ (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDA173DF930A15756C0A96E9482 60&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2)
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