Göring's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world



Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's special art looting agency, he went on to supervise the systematic theft and distribution of over 22,000 artworks, largely from French Jews; helped Göring develop an enormous private art collection; and staged twenty private exhibitions of stolen art in Paris's Jeu de Paume museum...