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