Notes
Introduction
1
Lynn Nicholas, The Rape of Europa:
The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the
Third Reich and the Second World War
( New York: Alfred Knopf, 1994), 68-69.
2
Mühlmann interview by
Charles Estreicher
and
Bernard Taper, 20 August 1947. Protocol provided to
the author by Bernard Taper.
3
Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv
(BHSA), MK 44778, Buchner's recollection, "Bergung des Genter Altars
der Gebrüder van Eyck," 15 June 1945. See also Theodore Rousseau, Detailed Interrogation Report (DIR)
No. 2: Ernst Buchner ( Washington,
DC: Office of Strategic Services
[OSS], Art Looting Investigation
Report [ALIU], 31 July 1945), 3.
4
For portrayals of the art world that
reflect the qualities noted above, see Frank McDonald novel, Provenance
( New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1979), 124. See also Peter Watson, The Caravaggio Conspiracy ( New
York: Doubleday, 1984); Peter Watson
, Sotheby's: The Inside Story ( New
York: Random House, 1997); and Robert Lacey, Sotheby's: Bidding for
Class ( Boston: Little Brown, 1998).
5
George Steiner writes of the pervasive
view prior to World War I that "education would ensure a steadily rising
quality of life. Where culture flourished, barbarism was, by definition, a
nightmare from the past." George Steiner
, In Bluebeard's Castle: Some
Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture ( New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1971), 30, 76.
6
See Sterling Callisen to Whitney
Shepardson, Chief, Special Intelligence Branch, OSS, 19 February 1945. Documents provided to the
author by the family of OSS officer Sterling Callisen.
7
Fritz Ringer, Decline of the German
Mandarins: The German Academic
Community, 1890-1933 ( Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1969); Max Weinreich, Hitler's Professors: The
Part of Scholarship in Germany's
Crimes against the Jewish People ( New
York: Yiddish Scientific Institute
(YIVO), 1946); Alice Gallin, Midwives to Nazism: University Professors
in Weimar Germany ( Macon, GA: Mercer, 1986); and more specifically, James Dow and
Hannjost Lixfeld,
eds., The Nazification of an Academic
Discipline: Folklore in the Third Reich
( Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1994). In a related case, some
scholars have noted that Albert Speer
was perhaps saved from the gallows at
Nuremberg because of his persona as
an artist/intellectual. See the discussion in Paul Jaskot, Oppressive Architecture: The Interest of the SS in the
Monumental Building Economy ( New
York: Routledge, 1999).
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Publication information:
Book title: The Faustian Bargain:The Art World in Nazi Germany.
Contributors: Jonathan Petropoulos - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: Oxford.
Publication year: 2000.
Page number: 281.
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