The Rape of Europa The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
by NICHOLAS, LYNN H.Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1995-04-25
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary
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 theMona Lisafrom Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy,The Rape of Europais a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama. "Nicholas knows the art world as well as any military historian knows his battlefield.... Her work deserves the widest reading."--New York Times Book Review
Author Biography
Lynn H. Nicholas was born in New London. Connecticut. She was educated in the United States, England, and Spain, and received her B.A. from Oxford University. After her return to the United States she worked for several years at the National Gallery of Art. While living in Belgium in the early 1980s, she began research for this book, her first. Ms. Nicholas and her husband live in Washington, D.C.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Prologue: They Had Four Years: Germany Before the War: The Nazi Art Purges | p. 3 |
| Period of Adjustment: The Nazi Collectors Organize; Austria Provides, Europe Hides | p. 27 |
| Eastern Orientations: Poland, 1939-1945 | p. 57 |
| Lives and Property: Invasion of the West; The Nazi Art Machine in Holland | p. 81 |
| Lenity and Cruelty: Occupied France: Protection and Confiscation | p. 115 |
| Business and Pleasure: France: The Art Market Flourishes; Nazi Kultur Withers | p. 153 |
| Plus ca change: The Invasion of the Soviet Union | p. 185 |
| Inch by Inch: The Launching of the Allied Protection Effort | p. 203 |
| The Red-Hot Rake: Italy, 1943-1945 | p. 229 |
| Touch and Go: The Allies Take Over: Northern Europe, 1944-1945 | p. 273 |
| Ashes and Darkness: Treasure Hunts in the Ruined Reich, 1945 | p. 327 |
| Mixed Motives: The Temptation of Germany's Homeless Collections | p. 369 |
| The Art of the Possible: Fifty Years of Restitution and Recovery | p. 407 |
| Notes | p. 445 |
| Bibliography | p. 467 |
| Index | p. 477 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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