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 were not really defeated but that they had been "stabbed in the back” by liberals, socialists, communists, and Jews (Winks and Adams, 135). The Treaty of Versailles left the Germans with the entire burden of the war. 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 led it into a deep depression. Besides the financial burden, this "led many Germans to devote their energy to denying war guilt and attacking." Degenerate arts were also linked to “degenerate” people or deformed people. A painting by Paul Schultze-Naumberg in 1928 illustrates this principle. Degenerate arts rub shoulders with “degenerate” people (Slideshow 4, October 21, 2015). As the regulations imposed to control these arts show, they were intended to control all public forums and thus prevent the development of ideas contrary to Nazi ideology (Petropoulos, In the exhibition on the eradication of hatred, he there were several propaganda objects that promoted anti-sematics). One example is the traveling exhibition of anti-Semitic propaganda entitled Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew). It was opened in Munich on November 8, 1937. In this exhibition, Jews were depicted as moral degenerates with their distorted images on posters. and postcards. In general, Germany's defeat and sense of failure led to the creation of the Third Reich. The Third Reich had a clear ideology: to promote the elimination of Jews and degenerates, to promote German unity, and to improve the state of Germany in general. the ideas were clearly promoted through different methods of propaganda and cultural policy such as art, museums, cinema and posters promoting their ideas.