Based on art historian Lynn H. Nicholas' densely detailed, award-winning account of the fate of Europe's museums and private collections under Nazi occupation, this gripping documentary sheds light on the frightening totality of Hitler's vision for a Germanic Europe, and the extent to which he and his Nazi thugs were no better than common thieves.
The looting of a conquered nation's cultural and artistic heritage is just one of the unfortunate consequences of warfare Napoleon was an infamous "collector" but such plundering had never before reached the institutional and bureaucratic heights achieved during the Third Reich. For Hitler, a failed ...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
117 mins