The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art

Table of contents

• Title Page i
• Contents iii
• Acknowledgments v
• Introduction 3
• Part I - A Certain Love of Art 11
• I - Vermeer's Astronomer, or Hitler's Blind Spot 13
• 2 - The Kümmel Report, or the Nazis' Reply to Napoleon 24
• 3 - Hermann Goering, "Friend of the Arts" 31
• Part II - Anatomy of a Pillage 41
• 4 - The Exemplary Looting of the Rothschild Collections 43
• 5 - The Paul Rosenberg Gallery: Modern and "Degenerate" Art for Sale 52
• 6 - The Bernheim-Jeune Collection, or the Burning of the Jas De Bouffan 75
• 7 - David David-Weill, or the Patron Stripped Bare 86
• 8 - The Schloss Collection, or Dutch Painters for Hitler 95
• Part III - Art for Sale 103
• 9 - Visitors to the Jeu De Paume 105
• 10 - Business as Usual: the Paris Art Market During the War 122
• II - Switzerland: the Importance. of Being Neutral 155
• Part IV - Revenants 163
• 12 - The Found and the Lost 165
• 13 - A Short Swiss Epilogue: Purchased Skeletons in the Kunstkammern 196
• 14 - Something New on the Eastern Front 212
• 15 - The Purgatory of the Mnrs 219
• Appendix A - The Schenker Papers 245
• Appendix B - An Interview with Alain Vernay 254
• Notes 259
• Index 268

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