Rescuing looted art

March 22 2013

Video: Pathe

A reader alerts me to the above video, showing part of Goering's collection of stolen art being sorted by the US army. Van Dyck's Family of Cornelis de Vos makes an appearance, whilst white gloves and bubble wrap are conspicuous by their absence. Warning - the film gets a bit grim at about 1m30 with the death of Himmler.

Update - a reader writes:

About your post "rescuing looted art", there is a good book from Hector Feliciano called "The Lost Museum", really worth reading. (Doing it now for the 3rd time)

It describes very well the French art market during WWII, as well how the Germans stole thousands of art works and entire collections of important families in Western Europe.

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