Graz Stadtpfarrkirche

Thanks to our Lonely Planet guide, we discovered this little church, with it's unusually themed stained glass window. If you look at the top right-hand corner of the window you will spot 2 historically significant figures. Recognize them? Hitler and Mussolini.

A bomb explosion in Word War II destroyed, among other things, the Gothic stained-glass windows in the chancel. Albert Birkle, an artist from Salzburg, was commissioned with making new ones. The new stained-glass windows by Albert Birkle made headlines in the fifties. It was considered "degenerate art".

Degenerate art-Entartete Kunst, was a term adopted by the Nazi regime in Germany to describe virtually all modern art. This art was banned and confiscated on the grounds that it was un-German or Jewish Bolshevist in nature.