Goering's Man in Paris : The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world “[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators connected to Nazi looting. . . . What emerges from Petropoulos’s research is a portrait of a charismatic and nefarious figure who tainted everyone he touched.”-Nina Siegal, New York Times “Readers of art history and WWII biographies will appreciate this engrossing deep dive into one of the world’s most prolific art looters.”-Publishers Weekly Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history.Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler’s art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection.By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified bu