His claims seem shady to many in Germany, including the German minister of culture. “‘Exhibitions aimed at confronting Nazi wrongs are more necessary than ever at the current time,’ said Hagen Philipp Wolf, a spokesman for the German culture minister Monika Grütters. ‘It is therefore beyond regrettable that the planned exhibition about the life and activities of the Jewish art dealer Max Stern and the history of his persecution in Düsseldorf is not now taking place.'”