art treasures in war

Presents an account of those who were part of a special force of American and British curators, art historians, museum curators, and other experts who risked their lives to prevent the destruction of cultural artifacts and structures while also trying to locate missing items that had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

Presents an account of those who were part of a special force of American and British curators, art historians, museum curators, and other experts who risked their lives to prevent the destruction of cultural artifacts and structures while also trying to locate missing items that had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

When her father dies under mysterious circumstances and leaves behind clues about a secret art treasure, judge Rachel Cutler and her ex-husband soon find themselves mixed up in a treacherous hunt for treasure with an evil history.

Discusses how art impersonator Han van Meegeren forged paintings and fooled Hermann Goering, a Nazi leader--and other people in the world--into believing his pieces to be the work of admired artists such as Johannes Vermeer.

Examines the activities of some of the prominent men in the world of art who chose to cooperate and collaborate with the Nazi regime; and argues that a network of these experts, rehabilitated after the war, is a key to the looted artworks still unaccounted for at the end of the twentieth century.

When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they continued their plunder of Europe's artistic and architectural masterpieces. On the eve of the Allied invasion, U. S. General Dwight Eisenhower appointed artist Deane Keller and Scholar Fred Hartt to leave Naples and track billions of dollars of missing art. As the German army retreated up the Italian peninsula, Nazi orders were to transport truckloads of art into the Reich. Standing in the way was top-level Nazi officer General Karl Wolff who commandeered the great collections of the Uffizi Gallery, and Pitti Palace.

Adolf Hitler dreamed of making Linz, Austria, his boyhood home, the artistic centerpiece of the world featuring a museum and art gallery stocked with treasures plundered from Nazi-occupied countries of Europe. This plan was not haphazard and had been meticulously organized before the war began. Hitler's men established comprehensive dossiers of art collections, both national and private, and made pre-war visits to identify worthy pieces of art.