The lost museum. The Nazi conspiracy to steal the world’s greatest works of art.

First US edition. Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; A Certain Love of Art (Vermeer's Astronomer, or Hitlers Blind Spot; The Kümmel Report, or The Nazis Reply to Napoleon; Hermann Goering, 'Friend of the Arts'); Anatomy of a Pillage (The Exemplary Looting of the Rothschild Collection; The Paul Rosenberg Gallery: Modern and 'Degenerate' Art for Sale; The Bernheim-Jeue Collection, or The Burning of The Jas de Bouffan; David David-Weill, or The Patron Stripped Bare; The Schloss Collection, or Dutch Painters for Hitler); Art for Sale (Visitors to the Jeu de Paume; Business as Usual. The Paris Art Market During the War; Switzerland: The Importance of Being Neutral); Revenants (The Found and the Lost; A Short Swiss Epilogue: Purchased Skeletons in the Kunstkammern; Something New on the Eastern Front; The Purgatory of the MNRs); Appendix A. The Schenker papers; Appendix B. An Interview with Alain Vernay; Notes; Index.