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| Genre/Form: | Art and the war |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lynn H Nicholas |
| ISBN: | 0679756868 9780679756866 0333639510 9780333639511 |
| OCLC Number: | 32531154 |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York : Knopf, c1994. |
| Description: | x, 498 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 ça 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. |
| Responsibility: | Lynn H. Nicholas. |
Abstract:
The Third Reich's senseless purges and war on European cultural artefacts are profiled by Nicholas, who describes how art treasures were both perserved and destroyed.
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