TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lane,Mary M.
TI  - Hitler's last hostages: looted art and the soul of the Third Reich 
SN  - 9781610397360
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - PublicAffairs
KW  - Gurlitt, Hildebrand.
KW  - Hitler, Adolf,
KW  - Art thefts
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Art treasures in war
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Destruction and pillage
KW  - Art
KW  - Mutilation, defacement, etc
KW  - Cultural policy
KW  - 1933-1945
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: Wake-up call -- Portrait of the dictator as a young man -- Enigma of war -- Eclipse of the sun -- Adolf's silver hammer -- Bad company corrupts good morals -- Cultural complicity -- Revisionist history -- Our sincere condolences -- Hitler's last hostages -- Epilogue: Business as usual -- Timeline
N2  - "The story of art is integral to the story of the rise of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, an artist himself, was obsessed with art--in particular, the aesthetic of a purified regime, scoured of 'degenerate' influences that characterized Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. When they came to power in 1933, Hitler and Goebbels set their aesthetic vision into motion and removed degenerate art from German life: artists fled the country; museums were purged; and great works disappeared, only a fraction of which were rediscovered at the end of the Second World War. Most remained in garrets and cellars, the last hostages of the era of the Reich. In 2013, 1290 works by Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann and others were rediscovered. In Hitler's Last Hostages, Mary Lane brilliantly tells the story of art and the Third Reich, and the fate of Germany's great artists as they fought to survive the Nazi era"--
ER  -