speeches of nazi party leaders contrasted with artist manifestos from various art movements, such as dada and surrealism. next to many paintings were labels indicating how much money a museum spent to acquire the artwork. in the case of paintings acquired during the post-war weimar hyperinflation of the early 1920s, when the cost of a kilo loaf of bread reached 233 billion german marks, the prices of the paintings were of course greatly exaggerated. the exhibit was designed to promote the idea that modernism was a conspiracy by people who hated german decency, frequently identified as jewish-bolshevist, although only six of the 112 artists included in the exhibition were jewish.