Salt Mines and Castles
The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art
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Paris - London - Versailles
47:53 -
Assigned to Frankfurt
40:46 -
Munich and the Beginning of Field Work
55:06 -
Masterpieces in a Monastery
49:43 -
Second Trip to Hohenfurth
53:17 -
Loot Underground: The Salt Mine at Alt Aussee
39:50 -
Loot Underground: The Salt Mine at Alt Aussee (Continued)
46:10 -
The Rothschild Jewels; the Göring Collection
32:16 -
The Rothschild Jewels; the Göring Collection (Continued)
37:49 -
The Rothschild Jewels; the Göring Collection (Conclusion)
32:33 -
Looters’ Castle: Schloss Neuschwanstein
51:57 -
Hidden Treasures at Nürnberg
34:12 -
Mission to Amsterdam; the Wiesbaden Manifesto
43:01 -
Mission to Amsterdam; the Wiesbaden Manifesto (Continued)
37:14
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Moving a painting safely can depend on a truck, a guard and a break in the weather. Thomas Carr Howe describes that practical side of recovering looted European art in this memoir, published in 1946. A museum director before his naval service, he travels overseas to join officers protecting cultural monuments and returning displaced collections. The opening follows his hurried travel arrangements and the paperwork needed to reach Europe.
Later scenes show paintings being transferred between vehicles, with works by Veronese and Rubens among the loads. Rain and hail interrupt the work, while mechanical failures delay convoys bound for Munich. Inside the salt mine, a final inspection takes the officers past pictures, sculpture and furniture to unopened cartons. The account gives readers interested in art history a view of recovery as daily work: organizing transport, checking stored objects and managing the people responsible for their care.
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- Thomas Carr Howe
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- 214
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- English
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- European History
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