Okay, this is twitter so we can't expect sources, but No 3 is "Heimkehr" (Return home) by Hans Adolf Bühler, painted in 1940.
I've seen this painting around a few times lately and as a (German) art historian I'm asking you to please be mindful of the art works you consume online. Art is and always has been powerful because it invokes emotions in us. Artists have always used that fact. We talk about media literacy so often on here, but that extends to other forms of art as well (beyond the written word). What do we see? Why did the artist depict the scene in this way? What can we assume about the artist's intentions?
For one, the man is a dead soldier, as we can tell by the title, the uniform, the general atmosphere. So he's the odd one out in this collection of lovers embracing, right off the bat.
Secondly, the title, the date and the general atmosphere raise some red flags - it's a blond youth heroically dying for the good of the country, in the arms of an equally blonde woman. Everyone is beautiful, young, soft, lovely. And as wikipedia tells us with one quick google search - "Hans Adolf Bühler was a German painter and National Socialist Kulturpolitiker."
In other words: It's a painting of a young, clean, beautiful German soldier, dying heroically, painted during the 2nd world war by a nazi artist-politician. It's soft, it's sentimental, it's painted in the traditional style favoured by the Nazis (as opposed to "degenerate" modern art) and it's intended to send a message. Let's try to decipher those messages in the paintings we see in the future!
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