Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Memoirs, Art, Design & Architecture

Authors: Thomas Carr Howe In Year : 1946

Book Language: English

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Paris—London—Versailles
Assigned to Frankfurt
Munich and the Beginning of Field Work
Masterpieces in a Monastery
Second Trip to Hohenfurth
Loot Underground: The Salt Mine at Alt Aussee
Loot Underground: The Salt Mine at Alt Aussee (Continued)
The Rothschild Jewels; the Göring Collection
The Rothschild Jewels; the Göring Collection (Continued)
The Rothschild Jewels; the Göring Collection (Conclusion)
Looters’ Castle: Schloss Neuschwanstein
Hidden Treasures at Nürnberg
Mission to Amsterdam; the Wiesbaden Manifesto
Mission to Amsterdam; the Wiesbaden Manifesto (Continued)

"From May 1945 until February 1946, I served as a Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer in Germany. During the first four months of this assignment, I was engaged in field work which included the recovery of looted works of art from such out-of-the-way places as a monastery in Czechoslovakia, a salt mine in Austria, and a castle in Bavaria. Later, as Deputy Chief of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section, Office of Military Government, U. S. Zone, I participated in the restitution of recovered art treasures to the countries of rightful ownership.

This book is primarily an account of my own experiences in connection with these absorbing tasks; but I have also chronicled the activities of a number of my fellow officers, hoping thereby to provide the reader with a more comprehensive estimate of the work as a whole than the resumé of my own duties could have afforded." - Summary by Thomas Carr Howe, Jr. (from the author's note)