![]() ![]() Nicholas does an admirable job with her cobwebby material that constantly threatens to spin in countless directions, organizing it into dense but generally cohesive chapters. It has become, quite simply, the loophole upon which I can relate to things I previously only knew but had never actually felt.Ĭonfiscated Jewish art and property in ParisĬonsidering the sprawling nature of the subject matter-Hitler and Goering's insatiable art collecting addiction, the stunning evacuations of the Louvre and the Hermitage collections, the "legal" seizure of Jewish art collections and property, the marginalization of "degenerate" modern art and artists, the meticulous destruction of the cultural heritages of Poland and other Slavic countries, the Nazi occupation and plunder of Italy, the tireless work of the American Monument Men, etc, etc-Lynn H. You know how people use solar eclipses to glance directly at the sun? Well, I have found that it is through this book that I have started to honestly fathom the horrific nature of the Second World War, in all of its crippling, incomprehensible intensity. I find that I grapple with the knowledge I gained here more often than I could have possibly imagined. And in the year that has since passed, I have attempted to wrap my head around everything meticulously laid out in the 450 pages of tiny black print that make up this book. ![]() ![]() I finished reading this book almost exactly a year ago. ![]()
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