The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

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Overview

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall—not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it.

From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, The Rape of Europa is a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama.

The fabulous objects recovered since the end of World War II are only a fraction of the immense treasures that were sold, confiscated, stolen, destroyed, hidden, and buried as Europe was overrun by the Nazis. Now Nicholas reconstructs the pillage and details the campaigns to restore the treasures. Illustrations and maps.

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Publishers Weekly
In this NBCC winner, first-time author Nichols documents Nazi Germany's attempt to cleanse Europe of its ``degenerate'' art and the Allies' effort to preserve the continent's cultural treasures. (May)
Library Journal
First-time author Nicholas presents a poorly written survey of the traffic in art under the Nazi regime, first in Germany and then in occupied Europe. She has a great deal of information, but it is not presented clearly or consistently. Nicholas has worked extensively with original documents and secondary works to reconstruct the German confiscation of art across the Continent, not just from Jews but from individuals and institutions in every country. Part cultural policy, part individual cupidity-especially by Goering-part egomania (Hitler's plans for a great museum in Linz), the ``rape of Europe'' makes for an engrossing story, but it is beyond the author's powers to deal with this story at more than an anecdotal level. While more limited in scope, firsthand accounts like Craig Smyth's Repatriation of Art from the Collecting Point in Munich After World War II (Abner Schram, 1988) are preferable. Pass on this.-Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780679756866
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 4/28/1995
  • Edition description: Reprinted Edition
  • Pages: 512
  • Sales rank: 165,631
  • Series: Vintage Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.17 (w) x 7.99 (h) x 1.01 (d)

Meet the Author

Lynn H. Nicholas was born in New London. Connecticut.  She was educated in the United States, England, and Spain, and received her B.A. from Oxford University. After her return to the United States she worked for several years at the National Gallery of Art.  While living in Belgium in the early 1980s, she began research for this book, her first.  Ms. Nicholas and her husband live in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
I Prologue: They Had Four Years: Germany Before the War: The Nazi Art Purges 3
II Period of Adjustment: The Nazi Collectors Organize; Austria Provides, Europe Hides 27
III Eastern Orientations: Poland, 1939-1945 57
IV Lives and Property: Invasion of the West; The Nazi Art Machine in Holland 81
V Lenity and Cruelty: Occupied France: Protection and Confiscation 115
VI Business and Pleasure: France: The Art Market Flourishes; Nazi Kultur Withers 153
VII Plus ca change: The Invasion of the Soviet Union 185
VIII Inch by Inch: The Launching of the Allied Protection Effort 203
IX The Red-Hot Rake: Italy, 1943-1945 229
X Touch and Go: The Allies Take Over: Northern Europe, 1944-1945 273
XI Ashes and Darkness: Treasure Hunts in the Ruined Reich, 1945 327
XII Mixed Motives: The Temptation of Germany's Homeless Collections 369
XIII The Art of the Possible: Fifty Years of Restitution and Recovery 407
Notes 445
Bibliography 467
Index 477

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