3.5A thorough, highly detailed account on the movement, confiscation, and recovery of European masterworks before, during, and after World War II. Amazingly well-researched, the overall narrative is insightful and organized. The reader follows famous works of art and prominent figures in the art ...
In this riveting, powerful narrative, Lynn Nicholas shows how children under the Nazis became mere objects available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. Nicholas recounts the euthanasia and eugenic selection, racist indoctrination, kidnapping and “Germanization,” mass executions, an...
When you make war on them you cannot crush and conquer them by surprise as the Germans have the Poles, the Dutch, the Belgians, the French even. They will take time to get ready, and when at long last they feel ready they will be cautious, make sure of their rear, and advance inch by inch, at sna...
Seek and Hide: Hidden Children On July 26, 1942, the Jewish Council in the Netherlands, like its counterparts in the East, was informed by the director of the Office for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam that all Jews between the ages of sixteen and forty would be taken to “labor camps” in “Germany....