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Books about looted art
Important
We are
no commercial dealers but we can help you find books being out of
print.
Members
and friends often sell some of these books after reading, so you are
welcome to ask.
For
books still on sale, please visit your local book store!
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Kulturgüter im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Verlagerung - Auffindung - Rückführung
by Uwe Hartmann and other authors
Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste Magdeburg,
2007
this book provides an overview about the history of looted
art and the return of the art work from 1955 till present. 23
authors use their special knowledge to describe several cases.
They also explain how even 60 years after the war, these
happenings still influence politics and the relationship of the
involved countries.
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Der Fund - die
Skandale des Stern
by Peter
Ferdinand Koch
Facta Verlag, 1990
Stern magazine spies in Bonn, honors a
government stroke, relies on the GDR secret service, on the
Hitler dairies, experiences its fiasco, loads Gerd Heidemann -
the undertaker of Stern have their "Stern-hour".
German only
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Raubzüge
in der Sowjetunion
by Ulrike Hartung
Edition Temmen, 1997
what happened to the art treasures of the
Sovjet Union? Who looted them, where were they brought to, which
were returned, which are still being missed today? The research
group East Europe in Bremen tries to clarify the events since
1992. The institution "Kommando
Künsberg" had a central meaning for looted art in the Sovjet
Union.
German only
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NS-Kunstraub
in der Sowjetunion
von Wolfgang Eichwede und Ulrike Hartung
Edition Temmen, 1998
die beiden Autoren forschen seit 1992 nach
dem Verbleib geraubter Kunst nicht nur auf dem Gebiet der
Sowjetunion. In diesem Band gehen sie
nicht der Frage nach was wirklich damals geraubt wurde, denn
außer dem Bernsteinzimmer wurde bisher kaum etwas über den
wahren Umfang des Raubes bekannt.
German only
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Goering
by Leonard Mosley
Desch Verlag, 1975
Excellent documented biography of a
British author trying to find and explain the contradictions in
one of the most shimmering personalities of the Hitler area and
make them transparent.
German only
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Die
Kunstsammlung des Reichsmarschalls Goering
by Guenther Haase
Edition q, 2000
In the 12 years of the Third Reich,
Hermann Goering had arranged the biggest private art collections
of the century. How was it purchased, how was it financed and
what was its fate?
With new archive material (mainly US), the
author documents the activities of Goerings personal
organization staff for his collection and the contacts to the
international art dealership, the financing by an "art funds",
created for this purpose and feed by donations of wealthy German
industrials as well as from 1940 the team work with the "Einsatzstab
Rosenberg" looting art from the occupied countries.
His purchases are listed detailed sorted by
countries and dealers, spectacular transactions are described
and the relocation of the collection from Carinhall near Berlin
to Bavaria in spring 1945 is discussed as well as the taking
over by the US-Army and the remains.
German only
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Geheim-Depot
Schweiz
by Peter Ferdinand Koch
List Verlag, 1997
No name accounts of jewish concentration
camp victims and looted gold of the Nazis in Swiss Banks were a
scandal. Still, former jewish owned giant values are kept in the
safes and depots of the silent banks of the Zürcher
Bahnhofstraße. The descendants of murdered jewish ask in vain
for clarification.
German only
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Die
Geldgeschäfte der SS
by Peter Ferdinand Koch
Hoffmann und Campe, 2000
German Banks held accounts of the Gestapo
and the SS, took care of their stock business and took profit
out of aryanizing people. Facts, which will the large banks
still want to keep silent.
The author documents, who the banks took
profit in many different ways by disfranchisement, expropriation
and
elimination of the Jewish people.
German only
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Dem
Führer ein Kind schenken
by Volker Koop
Böhlau Verlag, 2007
Volker Koop writes about the history of
the Lebensborn e.V., in a scientific way and with a lot of
knowledge. His books allows new views
of the insanity of this SS institution, which was pushing to
Germanize Europe using the excuse of wanting to help mothers and
children.
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Das Mädchen mit der Perle
by Ruth and Max Seydewitz
Buchverlag der Morgen, 1972
Mr. and Mrs. Seydewitz wrote a number of books about stolen
paintings. They all read like a crime story and we wish they
would be available in English.
German only
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Der verschenkte Herkules
by Ruth und Max Seydewitz
Buchverlag der Morgen, 1969
German only
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Wenn die Madonna reden
könnte
by Ruth und Max Seydewitz
Urania Verlag, 1980
German only
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Die Dame mit dem Hermelin
by Ruth und Max Seydewitz
Henschelverlag, 1963
German only
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Liechtenstein und der
internationale Kunstmarkt 1933 - 1945
by Esther Tisa Francini
Chronos Verlag, Zürich 2005
German only
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Fluchtgut - Raubgut, der
Transfer von Kulturgütern in und über die Schweiz 1933-1945 und
die Frage der Restitution
by
Esther Tisa Francini, Anja Heuss, Georg Kreis
Chronos Verlag, Zürich 2001
German only
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"Blutige Spuren - Der
zweite Aufstieg der SS"
Autorenteam:
Jürgen Pomorin, Reinhard Junge,
Georg Biemann, Hans-Peter Bordien,
Weltkreis Verlag, Dortmund 1980.
German only
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Die geraubte Kunst
by Cay Friemuth
Westermann Schulb., Br, 1989
The dramatic race to rescue art treasures at the end of WWII.
With the dairy of the British Officer
Robert Lonsdale Charles. The art treasures of Europe in the
trouble of WWII.
German only
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Glanz im Dunkel
by Katharina Hammer
About the storage of art treasures in Austria at the end of
WWII. An excellent book about the happenings near Aussee
since the middle of the year 1944. Contains maps of the salt mine
and detailed information.
German only
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Kunstraub in Europa 1938 -
45
by Jakob Kurz
Facta Oblita Verlag
A book about Hitlers dream, to built the world largest museum
for art in Austria. An interesting title about the "biggest
art looting of all times"...
German only
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Tatumstände (un)bekannt
by Günter Wermusch
The story of 400 famous paintings which supposedly had been
destroyed by a fire in May 1945 in the "Flakleitturm" in Berlin. Wermusch
beleives that someone created the fire with the purpose to steal
the paintings and create a legend of their loss, while they were
on the way into secure deposits. Reads like a criminal novel,
but true...
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Von Kaliningrad nach Königsberg.
Auf der Suche nach verschollenen Schätzen.
by Jurij Nikolajewitsch Iwanow
Rautenberg, Leer, 1991
About the searching for art treasures stolen in WWII
including the Amber Room. Tells about the German investigator Georg Stein
and the director of the art collections Königsberg, Dr. Alfred
Rhode. A strongly recommended book...
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Der Banditenschatz
by Julius Mader
This "classic book" can be compared with the Amber Room report
by Enke. Even if it is about a different subject, it is written
the same precise and very good. Published in the 70s and since a
long time out of print. It tells about the production of
counterfeit money and movements of money and show the responsible
people. You will find out that not even today, the remains of the
bandit treasure are known...
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