Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (BHSA), MK 44778, Buchner's recol- lection, "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.
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).
George Steiner writes of the pervasive view prior to World War I that "educa- tion would ensure a steadily rising quality of life. Where culture flour- ished, barbarism was, by definition, a nightmare from the past." George Steiner , In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Cul- ture ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971), 30, 76.
See Sterling Callisen to Whitney Shepardson, Chief, Special Intelli- gence Branch, OSS, 19 February 1945. Documents provided to the author by the family of OSS officer Sterling Callisen.
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, Mid- wives 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 discus- sion in Paul Jaskot, Oppressive Archi- tecture: 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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