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1) The train
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
As the end of WWII approaches, a German commander loads a train with a collection of stolen French paintings, and a member of the French Resistance vows to stop the train.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xii, 349 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren, who dared to impersonate Vermeer centuries later. The con man's mark was Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 408 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
A captivating dramatic thriller set just after WWII, an all but forgotten true story about a soldier, Joseph Piller, investigating renowned Dutch artist Han van Meegeren who is accused of conspiring with the Nazis. Despite increasing evidence, Piller becomes more and more convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the improbable position of fighting to save the life of the colorful man with a mysterious past.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Imagine the world without our masterpieces. Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how during World War II the Nazis systematically took or destroyed the art of Europe. It follows the the heroic Europeans who first hid, and then set out to find and return what had been taken, with the help of the Allied forces "Monuments Men". It is work that continues to this day.
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
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Series
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Description
"As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
10 CDs (12 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Spring 1933: The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking’s Forbidden City, for centuries the home of Chinese emperors, are tense with fear and expectation. Japan’s aircrafts drone overhead, its troops and tanks are only hours away. All-out war between China and Japan is coming, and the curators of the Forbidden City are faced with an impossible question: how will they protect the vast imperial art collections in their charge? A difficult and monumental...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Separated by 500 years, two women--Anne Guichard, a young archivist at the Louvre, who at the dawn of WWII must keep treasures safe from the Nazis; and house servant, Bellina Sardi, who is tasked with keeping an impossible secret--each hide Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa with unintended consequences.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xxii, 454 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--embarked from Naples on the tresure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 473 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
"The previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiv, 386 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became knownas a man who never was - he didn't have a bank account, never paid tax, never received social security. He simply did not exist. He had been hard-wired into a life of shadows and secrecy by his own...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 316 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Tells the riveting true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and equally unholy Reich.
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