Rape of Europa The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

Name: Rape of Europa The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
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ISBN: 9780679756866

ISBN-10: 0679756868

ISBN-13: 9780679756866

Edition: 1995

Authors: Lynn H. Nicholas

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it. From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, The Rape of Europa is a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/25/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.91" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 0.990



Acknowledgments



Prologue: They Had Four Years: Germany Before the War: The Nazi Art Purges



Period of Adjustment: The Nazi Collectors Organize; Austria Provides, Europe Hides



Eastern Orientations: Poland, 1939-1945



Lives and Property: Invasion of the West; The Nazi Art Machine in Holland



Lenity and Cruelty: Occupied France: Protection and Confiscation



Business and Pleasure: France: The Art Market Flourishes; Nazi Kultur Withers



Plus ca change: The Invasion of the Soviet Union



Inch by Inch: The Launching of the Allied Protection Effort



The Red-Hot Rake: Italy, 1943-1945



Touch and Go: The Allies Take Over: Northern Europe, 1944-1945



Ashes and Darkness: Treasure Hunts in the Ruined Reich, 1945



Mixed Motives: The Temptation of Germany's Homeless Collections



The Art of the Possible: Fifty Years of Restitution and Recovery


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