Nazi Leader Portrait to Stay in Nebraska School
A portrait of Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler that provoked a free-speech controversy at tiny Midland Lutheran College will continue to hang in the college library, the school’s president said Monday.
A faculty committee agreed with a student group that the life-size painting, which has hung in the library for 10 years, should be accompanied by an “appropriate contextual statement and interpretation.”
The painting became the subject of controversy when a student complained. The artist, former art professor David Amland, has said the work is not meant to glorify Nazism.
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