Dimensions
130 x 196 x 25mm
The Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses
Fired by an ambition to establish the world's finest museums and galleries in his former home town in Austria, Adolf Hitler systematically looted Europe's treasurehouses to accumulate a magnificent hoard of important and priceless art collections. Much loot was recovered at the end of the war, but vast quantities disappeared once again with the arrival in Germany of Stalin's Red Army, which indulged in wholesale pillage while the other Allies picked over the ruins of the Third Reich for their own enrichment. 'The Lost Masters' reveals the attempts of those who lost so much to regain their heritage in the face of indifference from governments and the international art world.
