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Author Feliciano, Hector.

Title The lost museum : the Nazi conspiracy to steal the world's greatest works of art / Hector Feliciano
Edition First edition
Published New York : BasicBooks, [1997]
©1997

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Description ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Vermeer's Astronomer, or Hitler's Blind Spot -- 2. The Kummel Report, or The Nazis' Reply to Napoleon -- 3. Hermann Goering, "Friend of the Arts" -- 4. The Exemplary Looting of the Rothschild Collections -- 5. The Paul Rosenberg Gallery: Modern and "Degenerate" Art for Sale -- 6. The Bernheim-Jeune Collection, or The Burning of The Jas de Bouffan -- 7. David David-Weill, or The Patron Stripped Bare -- 8. The Schloss Collection, or Dutch Painters for Hitler -- 9. Visitors to the Jeu de Paume -- 10. Business as Usual: The Paris Art Market During the War -- 11. Switzerland: The Importance of Being Neutral -- 12. The Found and the Lost -- 13. A Short Swiss Epilogue: Purchased Skeletons in the Kunstkammern -- 14. Something New on the Eastern Front -- 15. The Purgatory of the MNRs -- Appendix A. The Schenker Papers -- Appendix B. An Interview with Alain Vernay
Summary Describes how the Nazis systematically looted some of France's most important private art collections, tracing the fate of the art and revealing the location of stolen works never returned to their owners
Notes Translation by Tim Bent and the author
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-265) and index
Subject Art thefts -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Pillage -- France.
War crimes -- France.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war.
SUBJECT Germany -- Cultural policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115153
LC no. 97007195
ISBN 0465041914 (paperback)
0465041949
Other Titles Musée disparu. English