After agonies In the secretary rooms to ministers of culture, Mies Van De Rohe, the last director of Bauhaus in Dessau, finaly got a chance to speak to the minister. However the conditions under which gestapo allowed to run the school again were unimaginable for Mies - the Nazis wanted Bauhaus to be part of their politics. After a few days, the director gathered his students and teachers and decided to close the school himself, for he could not allow Bauhaus to be corrupted with something destructive. The school's aims were only related to good craftsmanship, design and making lives better, it was not a question of corrupting clear and pure minded young designers.
References:
Anon. (n.d.). Bauhaus Weimar. Available: http://bauhaus-online.de/en/atlas/das-bauhaus/idee/bauhaus-weimar. Last accessed 22nd Jan 2015.
Anon . (n.d.). The Bauhaus . Available: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-bauhaus.htm. Last accessed 22nd Jan 2015.
Miller, J (1991). The ABS's of Bauhaus: The Bauhaus and Design Theory. New York : Princeton Architectural Press. p25-50 .
Siebenbrodt, M & Schöbe, L (2012 ). Bauhaus . New York : Parkstone International. p15-62.
Winton, A. (n.d.). The Bauhaus, 1919–1933. Available: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bauh/hd_bauh.htm. Last accessed 22nd Jan 2015 .
Wingler, H (1978). Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago . Cambridge : The MIT Press . p30-41.