wittman, robert k

Robert Wittman, the world's top art sleuth, built a twenty-year career of catching art thieves, scammers, and black-market traders around the world, and managed to save some of history's greatest treasures. He created, and was, senior investigator for the FBI's Art Crime Team. Today he is president of the international art security firm of Robert Wittman, Inc.

This contextualized narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia explores the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler's 'chief social philosopher'. It also chronicles the hunt for the diary, which was lost for almost three quarters of a century.

The founder of the FBI's Art Crime Team recounts his career recovering priceless art and antiquities from art thieves, scammers, and black market traders around the world.