Hitler's Art Thief
Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures

I somehow feel guilty about the rating, as this book needed a tremendous amount of work, not to mention that it reminds, again and again, about the atrocities committed by " The Third Reich" . But all these little facts, statistics and peripheral data are much more for the connoisseurs than the aver......more

Hildebrand Gurlitt is likely not a name familiar alongside those of the infamous villains of Nazi Germany. He should be though as he looted 1500 pieces of priceless art from the Nazi’s victims, valued at over $1 billion (USD) at 2015 values. Yet his crimes weren’t uncovered until 2013 when his son a......more

Have you read “Monuments Men”? In November 2013, eighty year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar when more than 1,400 works of art – valued at over $1.3 billion dollars – were discovered in his Munich apartment. Gurlitt became known as the man who never was. He didn’t have......more

Overall the book was interesting but definitely one for readers who love detail. Personally I found the amount of detail bogged the story down and I wound up skimming the pages at times. The book is basically in three parts. The first is a lot about the rise of the Nazi party and the background of t......more

It took some slogging through to read this book, but it is very good for details and the overall explanation. The book implied that Hitler was a want-to-be artist, so to steal all of that fine art in Europe was sort of a revenge. Also it brought up that the Nazis' labeled art as degenerative if it w......more