Nazi plunder

I chose this book because this book is about the World War II, possibly the time when the largest looting of art was going on. This book provides a lot of information on how and where the Nazis would steal the art. The book explains how Hitler was a large follower of different kind of arts. Hitler knew that a lot of these arts can bring wealth into his nation. Some of the arts that are shown in this book weren’t even seen by the public. This book also shows how because of looting a lot of the art pieces where lost during the war. The author of the book mostly focuses on the private collections of five families: Rothschild, Rosenberg, Bernheim-Jeune, David-Weill, and Schloss. In the book it even says that “The paintings belonging to the French branch of the Rothschild family stood, from the Nazi perspective, at the very top.”(pg43). Nazis valued their paintings very highly, therefore they did everything in their power to acquire them. The book also shows the history of some arts, showing how they were passed through generations of German officials and generals, tracing them back to their origins. This book proves how Nazis has been very unfair to other nations while stealing the art that does not belong to them and trying to claim it as their…

Adolph Hitler, a dictator of World War II, was once an artist. Despite his artistic skills and passion towards art, he was continuously rejected by art academies, and therefore, came to be an unsuccessful artist. This was one of the main causes of the Degenerate Art Commission, also called the Nazi art theft. Hitler’s personal antipathy towards modern art created the Degenerate Art Commission which destroyed and concealed thousands of modern artworks (Allsop). Starting from 1937, the looting…

The Gestopo,which is the police of Nazi Germany, had strict laws toward Jews or Jewish religion people. There are rules such as: “Jews have to wear the Star of David in public.(“Police Decree On The Identification of Jews”Page 1.) Jews cannot leave neighborhood without permission.(“Police Decree On The Identification of Jews”Page 1.) Violation of these laws doesn’t get you in terrible punishment.(“Police Decree On The Identification of Jews”Page 1.) Jews who violate the 1 and 2 law will be…

World War I had been a terrible ordeal for the German people who were forced to endure food shortages and mass inflation that crippled an empire and permanently scarred a people. When the Nazis began to move towards beginning another war of German conquest, they saw it as critical that these mistakes of the past be avoided at all cost. The simplest and most straightforward way to ensure the continued popular support of the German people was through keeping their lives stable and prosperous.…

That was very unfair to the Jews because all of their memories and personal items are in that house, and for the Nazis to take their property in the blink of an eye is absorbed. We then go back to the question where all those paintings worth millions of lives? The answer is simply no. It doesn’t matter how much the paintings are worth, and how many paining’s were lost, they will never amount to the price of a human life. Why? Because humans are priceless, paintings are…

German living space… Europe will have its Jewish questions solved only after the very last Jew has left the continent”. Rosenberg is known for quite a few things but Rosenberg is mostly known as one of the most influential Nazi intellectuals. Also, in the course of his career, Rosenberg held a number of important German state and Nazi Party posts. Rosenberg is one of many cofounders of the Militant League for German Culture. He has written many things such as The Myth of the Twentieth Century,…

When Hitler was 18 he was rejected from The Fine Arts Academy in Vienna, where many of the jurors were Jewish. While modern artists flourished, including many Jewish artists, he created the Nazi party and rose to power in Germany. His obsession with art was obvious in his politics as he believed that modern artists were of an inferior race that needed to be purged, otherwise the Germans would be contaminated by it. Hitler’s goal was to wipe out all of the Jews and any people deemed subhuman,…

Was The Treaty of Versailles responsible for the rise of Fascism? In 1919, Germany signed The Treaty of Versailles in Paris Conference which was officially ended World War I. However, the peace of the world was not the target of Paris Conference, it is just a new method for victorious powers’ to plunder. The Treaty of Versailles limited German armies, forced German to pay a huge reparation and striped a large area of German’s territory. The citizens in Germany absolutely didn't want the…

Joseph Stalin. Granted that the Führer’s arrogance (or perchance ignorance) did reverberate throughout Operation Barbarossa, the principal aim was actually the rich oil fields south of Stalingrad. If conquered, Russian oil would have fueled the depleted German war machine. Likewise, Stalingrad being a chief line of communications, and an industrial driving force precipitously producing armaments, would have fashioned it to be an essential accolade and a propaganda tool for the Nazi party.…

and the Jews. The Nazi regime sought to ensure as little confusion as possible as to which category an individual belonged. In September of 1935 the Nuremburg Laws were passed. These were extremely anti -Semitic statutes that sought to restrict and diminish the identity of German Jews in particular, this was achieved through the deprivation of German citizenship. No longer were they German,…