This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:49:40 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms G ö r i n G ’s M a n i n Pa r i s This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:49:40 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:49:40 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms GÖRING’S MAN IN PARIS The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World JONAT H A N P E T ROP OU L OS New Haven and London This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:49:40 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Copyright © 2021 by Jonathan Petropoulos. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Yale University Press books may be purchased in quantity for educational, business, or promotional use. For information, please e- mail [email protected] (U.S. office) or [email protected] (U.K. office). Set in Janson type by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Control Number: 2020939645 isBn 978- 0- 300- 25192- 0 (hardcover : alk. paper) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ansi/nisO Z39.48- 1992 (Permanence of Paper). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:49:40 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms For my parents, George and Maureen Petropoulos This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:49:40 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:49:40 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms I think my own experience shows that you’ve got to be damned careful when you associate with art dealers. They’re in a class by themselves—I noticed that myself toward the end. —Reichsmarschall (Reich Marshal) Hermann Göring, while imprisoned in Nuremberg (August 1945) I regret that the initial interrogations were not better controlled. The documents that surfaced later showed that the culpable Nazis who were interrogated did not always tell the truth. —French Monuments officer Rose Valland to a U.S. counterpart, Ardelia Hall (January 1965) I was once asked what my greatest accomplishment as an art dealer was. . . . My answer: not talking about it. —Walter Feilchenfeldt, former president of the Swiss Art Trade Association (January 2012) This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:49:40 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:49:40 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Contents Dramatis Personae xi Prologue: Kaffee und Kuchen with Bruno 1 Introduction 12 1. Art Historian, Art Dealer, Member of the SS (1911–41) 23 2. The “King of Paris” (1941–43) 33 3. Darker Hues and War’s End (1943–45) 83 4. Called to Account (1945–50) 107 5. The Amnesia Years 134 6. Lohse in North America 168 7. War Stories, War Secrets 191 8. Restitution 211 9. Bruno Lohse and the Wildensteins 237 Epilogue: On the Trail of the Nazi Plunderers 276 Appendix: Artworks in the Possession of Dr. Bruno Lohse and the Schönart Anstalt 297 Acknowledgments 299 List of Abbreviations 303 ix This content downloaded from 128.111.121.42 on Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:51:46 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms