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Sacking Aladdin's Cave : plundering Goering's Nazi war treasures / Kenneth D. Alford with Thomas M. Johnson and Mike F. Morris.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection N9160 .A54 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alford, Kenneth D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art treasures in war--Europe--History--20th century.
- Art treasures in war.
- Art thefts--Europe--History--20th century.
- Art thefts.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946--Art collections.
- Göring, Hermann.
- Germany--Cultural policy.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Authors' autographs.
- Physical Description:
- 136 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing Ltd, c2013.
- Contents:
- Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring
- The 101st Airborne Division
- Normandy
- Market Garden
- Bastogne
- Germany
- The 1269th Engineer Combat Battalion
- The capture of Berchtesgaden
- The payoff
- Aladdin's Cave
- Looting the Reichsmarschall booty
- The Munich central collection point
- Reparations
- Göring objets d'art transferred to the Bavarian government in 1949
- U.S. Army, war trophies
- The extraordinary Blue Goose
- The Hermann Göring wedding sword
- Hermann Göring's wearing wedding sword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum's copy signed by the author.
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780764343964
- 0764343963
- OCLC:
- 856053189
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