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...part of his twisted vision of the future, Adolf Hitler planned to construct the world's finest museum - the eponymous Führermuseum - in his hometown of Linz, Austria. By stocking it with the world's greatest works of art, he hoped to showcase the superiority of Aryan artists over their supposedly "degenerate" Jewish counterparts. Within months of invading Poland in 1939, Nazi troops began seizing selected pieces - including paintings by Raphael, Rembrandt and Vermeer - from churches, museums and private art collections. The artworks were then hidden in mines and remote castles for safekeeping until the war ended...
...World War II raged, Adolf Hitler retained an ambition to build the world's finest museum in his hometown of Linz, Austria. He planned to call it the Führermuseum and hoped to stock it with the greatest works of art from around the globe - which he would obtain by looting collections and museums in occupied territories and hiding them until the war ended. (See a brief history of World War II movies...
...Hitler want to build the Führermuseum? He was a frustrated, aspiring artist. He had applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna as a painter and been rejected. He had been encouraged to reapply for architecture school and was rejected again. He believed that the majority of the jurors at the academy were Jews. He was determined to get back at them and diminish Vienna's cultural influence over Europe by rebuilding Linz. It was an industrial city and wasn't particularly attractive. He wanted to make it magnificent. (See pictures of the faces...
...many works did they eventually return? By 1951 they had restituted more than 5 million objects. That includes thousands of church bells the Nazis were going to melt down and use for war materials. The main mine that contained many of the works destined for Hitler's Führermuseum had more than 10,000 paintings, sculptures and other works of art. It's unimaginable. We're not talking about average things, but sculptures by Michelangelo and paintings by Vermeer...
...family, giving rise to rumors that she may have sired a bastard son, Hitler's father, with a Rothschild. Whatever the real reason for his enmity, Hitler, a failed art student, ordered the plunder of Rothschild collections in both Paris and Vienna to help stock his Führermuseum...