On taking power the Nazi regime began to focus on cultural issues with an urgency that remained largely unabated until 1945. The Nazi elite, state agencies, and ministries pressed restoration and the presentation of cultural heritage into myth making, doctrine, and propaganda. These efforts had a range of aims. One objective was the attempt to reveal the consequences of uncontrolled, racial ‘contamination’ and its perceived damaging cultural reach. Similarly, within this aim the regime also sought to reveal and justify the cultural and social parameters of the Volksgemeinschaft through segregating and controlling what constituted German art. As a part of this, the regime began to situate and frame both the past origins and the anticipated glorious future of the German people through approved cultural objects.