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.
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Pillage -- France.
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War crimes -- France.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war.
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SUBJECT |
Germany -- Cultural policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115153
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LC no. |
97007195 |
ISBN |
0465041914 (paperback) |
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0465041949 |
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