On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany and the Third Reich assumed power. In April, the Gestapo padlocked the doors of the Bauhaus school, in Berlin, a renowned institution for art and design. At the Bauhaus, during the 14 years it existed, human creativity reached an apogee that inspired comparisons to the Italian Renaissance. Having closed the school, the propaganda minister of the Reich said it could reopen if it embraced a nationalistic style. The faculty members refused, and the doors of the Bauhaus never opened again. Some of the movement’s geniuses had already fled to other countries; many of the rest now followed. There was no other version of the history. End of story. Until now. In the city of Weimar, where the Bauhaus was founded in 1919, “Bauhaus and National Socialism”—spread across the Bauhaus Museum Weimar, the Museum Neues Weimar, and the Schiller Museum—invites a fresh look at what actually happened after the curtain came down. —Nicholas Fox Weber